The Greens have unveiled a policy to extend 20 hours a week of free early childhood education to 2-year-olds.

Hostile feedback from residents in some of the country’s most expensive real estate has caused an emerging school to back away from including them in its new zone.

New Zealanders would rather money was spent on improving teaching standards than on reducing class sizes, a Herald-DigiPoll survey reveals.

Only 4 per cent of non-Maori secondary school students are learning te reo Maori, the latest figures show.

How open Kiwi students are to international cultures and opportunities could be measured as an important part of the school curriculum.

Today, Pita Sharples will carry out the first reading of the new Maori Language Bill 2014 in Parliament.

The curriculum in New Zealand schools is "compulsory" and nobody minds - until it is suggested that all New Zealand children should be given a grounding in te reo Maori.

Aserial entrepreneur with a geeky streak is bringing technology into the classroom with her award-winning start-up.

An arch-conservative appointed to rid Australia's national curriculum of supposed left-wing bias has backed the use of corporal punishment in schools.

All New Zealand schoolchildren would learn Maori under Labour's long-term plan for te reo, but it appears the party is loath to give the policy a high profile.

Jake Miller was head prefect of his school with a $40,000 scholarship to study law waiting for him.

Imagine teaching every child in this country how to program a computer - from age 5. When you think about it, it is odd that we don't.

An Auckland school will have a zone for the first time after a remarkable turnaround in its results and reputation.

For Labour, size matters - particularly when it comes to education, writes Kerre McIvor.

100 low-income families were asked what they needed to get out of poverty. Here are their answers.

For years scientists thought they knew what caused the hole in the ozone layer but now it appears they could have been wrong.

About every 18 months the issue of vaccinations (or, more specifically, the issue of not having your children vaccinated) becomes especially newsworthy.

One thing I believe all students have in common is that we want to walk out university with a career especially because being a student these days is a significant investment.

The Labour Party has it on good authority that school class sizes are a subject that can move votes.

Schools could get as many as 21 extra teachers under Labour's election-year policy, according to new calculations.

The holidays have just begun and many of us are already counting down the days until schools reopen. Here are five ways to be an awesome parent these holidays.

Labour has turned it guns on one of areas it believes National is most vulnerable in the lead up to the election.

Labour will fund an extra 2000 teachers under its policy to reduce primary class sizes to 26 students by 2016 - a step expected to cost $350m over the next three years.

In Degree Mills, Ezell and Bear cite a congressional committee's estimate from 1986 that there were more than 5,000 fake doctors practising in the U.S. The figure must be several times that by now.

Labour's new teaching policies are response to National's proposal to pay good teachers and principals more and require them to work with others.