Vocal children’s health campaigner Dr Lance O’Sullivan says he has been “attacked” after shining a light on serious safety issues at an Auckland boarding school.

A carving programme that fostered passion and changed attitudes to learning has been announced as the supreme winner of the Prime Minister's Education Excellence Awards.

The school principal behind a controversial ban on puffer jackets has been backed by his principals' association.

The Labour Party has called on education minister Hekia Parata to demand the resignation of the Kohanga Reo board.

Puffer jackets are the latest in a long list of things banned by schools. Here are some other prohibited items.

Company denies liability, awaits appeal result involving Ministry of Education.

King's School in Auckland is to replace its old boarding house and clock tower with a $30 million glass-fronted building with views of Rangitoto Island.

The long-serving principal of a North Shore primary school, who left his job after a term on sick leave, is being investigated by the Teachers Council.

Sticks and stones may break bones, but it seems words can still do some serious damage to young people.

On Sunday night Michael Meredith was named Auckland's top chef. At 6am the next morning he started making sandwiches for hungry children in Mangere.

Ambitious building plans by Manukau Institute of Technology that would have transformed its campuses will likely not begin for at least 10 years.

The county’s largest Bible-studies provider has won the right to weigh in on a legal stoush over religious instruction in primary schools.

The former teacher found guilty of masturbating in a classroom during school hours has been denied name suppression - but will appeal.

Cash-strapped preschool services argue funding is lagging behind inflation.

Principal of damp, leaky school in Northland feels certain it will be replaced after meeting with government officials.

Numbers of older students are dropping and Government cuts are to blame, says the national student union and lobby group Grey Power.

More than two years have passed since the Government announced an impressive plan for improving schools by paying them to work more closely together.

A primary school riddled with toxic mould is desperate to get rebuilt but despite years of waiting, children remain in damp classrooms with no date in sight.

Cartoonist Peter Bromhead's take on New Zealand's maths problem.

Four students have been excluded from one of the country's top schools for taking and sending images that constituted "harassment".

An Auckland high school has lost a court battle to keep a child with Asperger’s out of the classroom.

Falling maths grades will be addressed by "lifting" primary teachers' knowledge through more on-the-job training, the Government says.

There is no need for a major overhaul to the Numeracy Project, just modification so that rote learning is taught for the benefit of struggling pupils.

Education Minister Hekia Parata says maths has been a long-term challenge for NZ but the government is addressing the issue.

A report to be launched by the Minister of Education today criticises the way pupils are taught maths and calls on parents to demand a return to basics.

One of the country's leading schools has pulled out of a controversial new education reform, leaving its partner schools in the lurch and displeasing Hekia Parata.

When the Government first announced it was planning to pay some teachers thousands more a year to help raise student achievement, the policy was promptly shouted down.

A university lecturer who claims he was cyber-bullied by students has won the right to challenge his employer for allegedly failing to tackle the problem.

Students from a damp and dilapidated school may be waiting two more months before the Government decides if it will fund new classrooms.