Unitec's controversial housing development plans for its 53.5ha Mt Albert site show the Mason Clinic psychiatric facility gone and replaced by apartments and townhouses.

Boys who attend single-sex schools are more likely to leave with higher qualifications than their male counterparts at co-educational schools, according to new research.

The historic, orange brick ex-Carrington Psychiatric Hospital as heritage apartments, pedestrian and cycle links, hundreds of new residents is the vision.

Students who attend boys schools are more likely to leave with qualifications than their male counterparts at co-educational schools, according to new research.

A principal is flabbergasted at a decision to allow a liquor store to open in a former video parlour directly opposite his school in Mangere.

New Zealand university students are turning to potentially harmful drugs to get ahead in their studies, new research shows.

Attending an all-girls high-school or college can keep women on the technology track, a panel of women investors and executives said at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing Summit on Monday.

Editorial: David Cunliffe's announcement represented Labour finally dipping a more positive toe into education policy.

The Serious Fraud Office says it has found no criminal offending at Te Pataka Ohanga, the subsidiary of the Kohanga Reo National Trust.

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has released plans to restore some incentives for solo parents who take up full-time study.

A high school teacher caught altering student work and removing negative feedback about himself from student assessments has been deregistered by the professional watchdog.

A prominent New Zealand academic, priest and lawyer has been sacked from his UK professor's post.

Teaching methods will need to change if tertiary institutions expect to keep charging thousands for learning that is available free on the web, says an expert.

We have a national qualification that we can be proud of and it is disappointing a few people annually attempt to undermine it to promote alternatives, writes Dale Burden.

In high school, I excelled in mathematics, chemistry and biology, writes Robert Greenberg. It seemed I was destined to fulfil the parental dream and pursue a career in medicine or, at the very least, in the natural sciences.

Thousands of school students are being awarded the wrong NCEA grades, a review of last year's results has revealed.

Six University of Canterbury students are taking part in what has been called a once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity.

A group of secondary school students are embarking on an ambitious project to build a three-bedroom home in six months.

Parents of a schoolgirl psychologically abused by her headmistress are furious she has denied targeting their daughter.

Hundreds of students sitting their NCEA exams last year were found cheating - taking in cellphones, extra notes and even having someone else sit the exam for them.

A teacher who crept into the bedroom where a student was sleeping in his house and kissed her has been de-registered.

The secrets of some of the highest-performing lower decile schools have been unlocked in an attempt to address one of the biggest problems in New Zealand education.

How much graduates in different fields of study can expect to earn has been revealed. So what should school students be choosing to study?

New Zealand's largest university is about to give away its teaching free as the Government calls the tertiary sector together to discuss whether such an approach is the way forward.