Back-to-back meetings throughout the week can often mean no time to exercise for those in the corporate world.

Some of the country's flagship charter schools are paying their owners hundreds of thousands in governance fees to help manage average rolls of just 70 children.

If driving becomes part of NCEA what is it that you're not taking if you're taking driving and is it really the schools job to teach you driving?

"I wonder whether we are demanding too much from our children, too young," says Smalley.

An innovative scheme is helping kids in low decile schools get up to speed.

A private girls' school in Auckland is warning its students to stay safe after a man allegedly tried to entice a primary school-aged student into his car yesterday.

The experience of thousands of students with dyslexia, dyspraxia, and autism spectrum disorders as they progress through school is to be examined by Parliament.

Lack of support for special- and high-needs pupils was cited as the single biggest concern of 35 per cent of 104 principals.

Segregated education at the secretive Gloriavale sect will not be investigated despite concerns for children's rights, a select committee has decided.

Fine weather may to be blame for a spike in student disciplinary cases in February and March this year, University of Otago proctor Simon Thompson says.

LANGUAGE WARNING: A teacher from a top school accused of using colleagues' personal details faces new charges of obtaining credit cards in their names.

The school bearing Sir Edmund Hillary's name faces government intervention for the second time since it opened 10 years ago.

A development company wants to build up to 150 homes on a site that includes playing fields used by the country's biggest special school.

The whispers about Massey High School's new principal began almost as soon as he arrived.

A new report says there is no evidence that programmes are providing teens a more effective pathway to further education and training.

Sometimes good things come from bad. Kirsty Johnston reports how a violent death was the catalyst for a school changing Pasifika futures, one child at a time.

Jacob Lewis found himself on the streets and struggling to afford food. Now he's studying law at prestigious university.

New charter schools will get less cash upfront and more per-student under "refinements" to the funding model released today.

Hosking: The hope I had when they introduced fees was that people would understand that anything that's got value has to have a level of investment.

Gloriavale could lose millions of dollars in taxpayer funding over its opposition to identification numbers for preschoolers.

Personal academic achievement is oversold, and selling schools on this basis, grossly undersells schools, writes Peter O'Connor.

With three Universities in the all-important world rankings and a burgeoning international student market, Auckland has an excellent reputation for higher education.

It's one thing to say that every child in New Zealand has equal access to a good education; it's another to make sure they can actually access it, writes Catherine Delahunty.

They're called NEET - not in employment, education or training - a pool of youth which numbers around 75,000 nationwide.

Mt Roskill Grammar is a decile four school, and its student population is as varied as they come. And yet, it gets excellent results every year.

We have to become a 'learning system' if we are to see real system-wide gains, writes Cathy Wylie.

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Many teachers would like students to be able to do external assessment "online, anytime", NZQA says.

More than one-third of Kiwi university students believe student loans will affect their decision to have children, a report reveals.

Green Party's education spokeswoman has entered into a war of words with the Christian community over how young people there are being taught.