A former childcare worker and P addict caught smuggling methamphetamine into New Zealand has been cleared by her professional body to return to the classroom.

75: It was late in the day before New Zealand appointed war artists to document the conflict.

A Hamilton high school teacher who gave pass grades to students whose work had been assessed as "not achieved" has been banned from the classroom.

Rather than trying to come up with a figure for our pay adjustment, our claim is obvious - 5.5 per cent, the same obscenely generous figure the authority deemed necessary for MPs, writes Steve McCabe.

A Kiwi student has come up with an innovative way to show off her artistic photography - by using traditional Pacific tapa cloth.

Getting a good education could be the best form of contraception for teenagers, according to a new study.

Jensen Au Yeung was doing basic maths by 2 and algebra by 3. Now the 10-year old maths whiz has skipped five grades at school.

Carter Holt Harvey's cladding sheets and systems used in 880 school buildings were "inherently defective", the Court of Appeal has heard.

A home-based childcare company that uses Education Ministry funding to entice people to work for it took seven weeks before it started paying a new home-based educator.

Teachers showering Kiwi kids with praise - and never allowing them to fail - are threatening to do more harm than good, a leading educationist says.

With more children coming to school hungry, a scientific study will for the first time guage the impact nutrition — or lack of it — has on learning.

When it comes to maths, 11-year-old Johnathan Leung is right up there with students gaining university entrance.

A charter school under threat of closure has indicated the school leaders may be sacked after public warnings from the education ministry.

A troubled charter school is under pressure to sack its leadership team or face closure.

The average Kiwi teacher is a woman in her early fifties and she's facing a generation of kids who have grown up with Wi-Fi, the cloud and hand-held technology.

Education Minister Hekia Parata has issued a formal warning to the troubled charter school in Whangaruru which now has a month to show it can rectify its problems or it could face closure.

A troubled charter school in Northland has just 37 students and legal advice on its possible closure has been provided to Education Minister Hekia Parata.

An Australian sexologist will pitch her explicit sex education course - which features topics such as pornography, consent, rape and teen pregnancy - to Kiwi educators.

Ongoing problems with Novopay and why a struggling charter school has not been shut down have been raised with the Ministry of Education in a select committee hearing today.

The second of a two-part interview with new College Sport chief executive Dave Currie.

The high school teacher producing the country's top dance scholars says the secret is treating the teenagers like "mini-professionals".

Education and gay rights activist Robin Duff has died this morning.

''I try to pick up the broken glass every Sunday morning, but it was just too bad.'' 1000 revellers helped plaster a Dunedin street in glass - to residents' disgust.

The twin sisters of Cromwell teen Rachel Clark have had genetic tests after the head girl's sudden death.

Furious parents in an upmarket city suburb are digging deep for what could be the country's most expensive school PE tops.

The principal of a new charter school has resigned, less than two weeks after the institution opened, while he is investigated by the Teachers Council over exam entries.

A top Auckland girls' school is investigating an alleged incident where up to seven underage girls were caught drinking outside the school grounds.