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.

Editorial: The Labour Party has always struggled with the concept of "voluntary" school donations.

Teen mum Nganoo Joseph hopes to graduate with a level 4 certificate in travel and tourism this year - and credits an All Black's sister with steering her to success.

Community Spirit category: When high school teacher Roshni Gounder came down with a sudden illness, many people expected her to give up her job.

Labour's plan to help struggling parents by tackling school donations is a political ploy- but at least it recognises the 'voluntary' nonsense, one principal says.

A parent has taken concerns about religious teaching to the Human Rights Commission in the latest effort to remove the lessons from state school time.

Labour wants to end "voluntary" school donations by offering a grants of $100 per student to schools that stop asking parents to fund "day to day" spending.

New Zealand universities could see a surge in the number of students crossing the Tasman if a new funding system gets the go-ahead in Australia.

When I was growing up, bullying at school was a fact of life, almost a rite of passage. If you complained about it, you were told to toughen up, writes Peter Hughes.

Act's education policy of allowing schools to opt into a charter school format has prompted an education union to urge National to steer clear of any coalition partnership deals.

Ghetto kid turned presidential hopeful Ben Carson is in New Zealand to help celebrate as the Duffy Books in Homes scheme turns 20.

Act wants to give all state schools the option of becoming charter schools, Act leader Jamie Whyte said today.

NZ schools are facing hefty legal bills to ensure their rules on students' appearances are legally watertight.

New roles will be created, one of which, the expert teacher, will be a position where the teacher is exported to other local schools for two days a week, writes Verity Johnson.

Editorial: Justice Collins made it clear that his judgment related only to this case. It did not rule on the lawfulness of schools' rules that attempt to regulate a student's hair.

The boy who allegedly stabbed his 11-year-old schoolmate in the head had been bullied at school for over a year and may have "just snapped", sources say.

More than 100 schools serving thousands of students have been found to be in difficulty by inspectors in the past year.

Kohanga reo teacher Ann Makea is adding a new service to her preschool offering - financial literacy for the children's parents.

Unitec says it never applied for its Mt Albert land to be fast-track high-density housing but an Auckland councillor says it not only applied but was rejected.

School-leavers would be issued with a certificate detailing their tardiness, attendance and attitude under a scheme called for by employers.

Schools are increasingly putting students under closed-circuit television surveillance to cut bullying.

"It's not our core business to be a park. We're an education provider," says Unitec chief executive.

With NZ's education system dropping in world rankings, is our curriculum keeping pace with a rapidly-changing world and do enough children have full access to new technology?

A married maths teacher was discovered under the bed of a pupil he was having sex with by her mother, a court has heard.

Serious health and safety issues including drug use and bullying plagued one of New Zealand's first charter schools as its management became dysfunctional.

I reckon that single-sex schools and healthy cereal are the same phenomenon, writes Verity Johnson.