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Christchurch's earthquake-displaced secondary schools overcame a disruptive year to achieve better academic results than in 2010. Thousands of pupils at a number of the city's schools spent most of last year sharing sites after earthquake damage forced them from their schools. There had been fears pupils' academic results would be tarnished by the upheaval of having less teaching time each day and travelling to another school site, often across town. However, statistics released by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority show the displaced schools accomplished even better National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) results last year than they did in 2010.

Teachers with just six weeks' training will be in front of secondary classrooms as part of a controversial initiative to fill jobs in poor schools. The University of Auckland and Teach First NZ are to recruit the programme's first 20 candidates - who all must already hold a degree - next month, conditional only on Teachers Council sign-off. They are looking particularly for languages, engineering or science graduates.