New Zealanders are uploading their lecture notes to a website that sells them on to other students and returns a share of the profit to the author.

Mountaineer Graeme Dingle's youth charity is branching out from its original outdoors focus to try to connect school-leavers with employers and jobs.

For the first time, US public schools are projected this northern autumn to have more minority students than non-Hispanic whites.

Schools are being made to re-enrol students they had kicked out for bad behaviour including carrying weapons, physical assaults and drug use.

Her own boy has done okay - but over a 35-year teaching career Margaret McCaw has helped in the development of hundreds of other children.

Alarming numbers of secondary students are "catastrophic spellers", a quarter getting nearly every word wrong in a test to gauge word skills, a new study has found.

There are advantages in having a chest infection. For instance, I can get a husky 30s jazz singer drawl, without smoking my way to an early death before I can pay off my student debt.

Students at an Auckland high school had a first-hand look at life in the trenches this week.

A group of primary school children have solved a problem that our biggest bank couldn't solve - finding a way to let disabled people into its downtown Auckland branch.

A high school teacher who had sex with her former student has been censured and banned from teaching by the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal.

A global charity will test children's eyes in low-income parts of New Zealand after an tests found 63 per cent of children at an Auckland primary school needed full examinations.

I look in the mirror and wonder how I managed to survive the torture and humiliation I faced when I was a teenager, writes Jesse Greenslade.

Learning the ukulele? Can’t remember what that song playing on the radio is? Trying to find the wine you liked at a party? There are apps for all that.

The move to place beleaguered payroll system Novopay under Government control will make it more transparent and accountable, school heads say.

Why, Labour education spokesman Chris Hipkins asked, had it taken the Government so long to take action over the troubled Novopay school payroll service?

Adecile 10 Auckland school considered criminal charges after it uncovered a scam it says enabled out-of-zone families to fraudulently enrol children.

A relief teacher sent photos of primary school pupils to a man he knew was seeking medical help for his sexual attraction to children.

Students are being kicked out of some of Auckland's most sought-after schools after officials ruled they were not genuinely living within zone.

A former principal and her husband who scammed $30,000 from a decile one school have abandoned their appeal after a judge told them they may be jailed.

Former All Whites coach Kevin Fallon says legal action is likely over his sacking from Mt Albert Grammar after 18 years, as his former players threaten a boycott.

My son turned 5 and started school last week. It was an emotional time for me. He is so small and his uniform so large, writes Matt Heath.

Politicians hate targets. The risk associated with them is all too apparent.

Helping close achievement gaps in our classrooms will be a priority for a leading academic appointed to a major new science education role.

What goes through the minds of educational professionals when they see the lengths that property owners will go to remain in a prestigious school zone?

Failure to pass on information at school’s management level was critical to the overlooking of allegations made by students.

The number of young school children achieving or bettering the national standard in reading and writing has fallen in many regions.

School students can forget trying to wriggle out of a part-time job - new research says it isn't all that bad.

The number of young school children achieving or bettering the national standard in reading has fallen or flat-lined in half of the country's regions.