Fewer children starting school can speak in sentences, prompting an investigation by education chiefs.

An Auckland girls' school principal has apologised after one of her students stripped in public - and it's emerged another was involved in a similar scantily-clad dare.

Auckland girls school takes action after girl, aged 14 or 15, stripped as part of a "sports initiation".

A girl who appeared to be a student from a private Auckland all-girls school stripped down to her underwear in the middle of a busy Rotorua street.

The New Zealand-wide lack of civic mindedness applies to all generations, not just my own, writes Lee Suckling. How could this be prevented, you ask? We might start by teaching civics.

Teacher Peter Lyons says he's finally learned a valuable lesson - life isn't fair, so he explains why he's decided to vote the right way this election.

Despite the building tension surrounding the election, the first major debate between party representatives on technology and innovation remained relatively civil.

New Zealand's expanding building industry has signed up its 9000th apprentice - but says it is running out of young people to fill the demand for more.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is in negotiation in the hope of opening more charter schools next year, possibly allowing tertiary institutions to run them.

A top Auckland private school has investigated allegations of racist remarks including the word n***** made by a student during a football match last weekend.

Luxurious holidays in the south of France or Rarotonga and an internship in New York are among the prizes on offer at an extravagant school fundraiser.

The rejection of the Government's flagship education policy by primary school teachers and principals was "sadly predictable" in an election year, according to Prime Minister John Key.

Despite decades of academic research, there is little agreement about the precise definition of entrepreneurship.

Primary school teachers and principals have voted overwhelmingly to reject the Government's flagship education policy.

How to improve what goes on in our schools has become a key election-year argument.

It was school meets Hell's Kitchen as top culinary students from around the country battled it out in Auckland yesterday.

Kiwi school kids interested in computer programming are being forced to teach themselves as the education system fails to keep pace.

Destiny Church wants its private school to become part of the state system, which would earn it a large boost in taxpayer funding.

Hundreds of teachers will take a break from the classroom today to visit the type of workplaces that their students could end up in.

'You only live once - so do what you love." While hardly rocket science, the advice was just as important as anything else one of our most accomplished chemists.

From restaurants to rocket-builders — businesses of all sorts share a common problem: Finding enough skilled staff. Anthony Doesburg reports.

A teacher who failed to report the behaviour of a student who developed an intense crush on him has been censured, but will continue to be able to teach.

Peter Calder writes: Waikowhai Primary School in Mt Roskill is one of 15 schools where the seven-week course called Kiwi Kids has been run over the past eight years.

An education-themed political meeting threatened to boil over as teachers took aim at Education Minister Hekia Parata and unloaded their long list of complaints about their schools, funding and heavy workload.

Auckland will get nine new schools after the Govt announced a $350m funding boost in an effort to get ahead of the city's surging population.

'Do you want to leave now?' asked the host of last night's Helensville debate of Prime Minister John Key - who came closest to being kicked out.