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

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 and writing has fallen in many regions.

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.

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.

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.

A refugee from Afghanistan who arrived in the country without being able to speak a word of English came third in a spelling bee just five years after arriving and is now studying political science.

As another school success story results in a new school zone, parents fear it'll end in changes to a zone so elite it can add 20 per cent to property prices.

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.

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

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

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.

New Zealand teens are more money savvy than young people in other developed nations, according to a new report.

Grace Eriksen, 18, is in her first year of university and reaping the rewards of three years of saving.

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.