Thousands of students are travelling long distances across Auckland to avoid their local schools - and there's concern about the flow-on effects.

Sir John Kirwan's new push: “We teach them maths, English, science, but we don’t actually teach them resilience. I think it has to become part of the curriculum."

His own experience has taught him the importance of simply being available for his kids and willing to listen.

An exclusive extract from Stand by Me by Sir John Kirwan, his guide for helping parents and teens around mental health.

If it’s September, this must be New Zealand... Andrew Laxon catches up with the students and Kiwi founder of an international travelling school which has arrived in Auckland

A teacher who chatted online about sexually violating a schoolgirl and bringing her to a group sex session to "let everyone have a go at a young girl" has been de-registered.

A UNICEF report clearly states that violence in all its forms can rob children's dignity, diminish their self-worth, and threaten their optimal development, writes Bernadette Saunders.

More than 300 high school students were absent across three schools during a random check - and police are concerned truants could be contributing to local crime.

New Zealand university students are about to battle international competition to decide who has built and programmed the best robot.

Kawakawa Primary School principal Peter Witana has been dismissed after an investigation raised financial management questions.

The roof of a school's library entrance will be only the second public structure designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the Southern Hemisphere.

A new $17 million health and fitness centre at private Epsom girls' school St Cuthbert's College opens today.

A group of Auckland primary pupils had a kick around with an All Blacks legend at Eden Park yesterday.

New Zealand students' "hope, engagement and wellbeing" is being measured by a company known for running staff engagement surveys for corporate clients.

According to the University of Victoria, more than half of New Zealanders aged between 18 and 30 did not vote in the last general election.

David Cunliffe faced a lecture theatre full of students at Waikato University and had smoko with workers at a Te Rapa factory.

The National Party wants to double the number of people studying engineering at university in a bid to get more graduates into jobs in the high-tech sector.

A near-unanimous vote has parents at St John's College supporting the school's "new hair rule" following the Lucan Battison case, but it could be challenged in court.

As the judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial was training to qualify, she changed her name from Matilda to Thokozile - the Zulu word meaning happy.

A scheme in which millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on sending students to private schools needs to be assessed to see if it is delivering results, an education union says.

Teen cannabis smokers are 60 per cent more likely to drop out of high school than their non-smoking peers, and are more likely to use other drugs and attempt suicide.

Three out of five charter schools are failing to meet minimum enrolment targets, but the Education Minister says there was still demand for the institutions.

Keith Shelley gets to work early. Really early. The gates don't open until 7.30, but he's outside by "six or five past, depending on the buses".

The Green Party would boost special education services in schools by $115 million if in government.

A multimillion-dollar business growth fund is set to begin investing in ambitious companies through a crowdfunding initiative.

The football coach who allowed a teenage girl to strip to her underwear on a busy street says he "completely and utterly" blames himself.

The Warriors have been drawn into an investigation into the use of tertiary education funding on the eve of the club's biggest game of the season.