Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei has promised a free lunch for all children in low-decile schools.

Labour has already given a conditional tick of approval to the Green Party's policy today aimed at low-decile schools, including free after school care and a free lunch.

A top Auckland secondary school is asking parents to shell out more than $1000 when their sons return to class in two weeks' time.

Thousands of Kiwi parents have a new shopping dilemma this year - they will need to buy a tablet or other digital device for their child, writes Diana Clement.

Schools say they know who their top teachers are and have already put some of them in the "expert" roles just announced by the Govt.

A state primary school has recommended that children have an iPad for the upcoming school year, as an increasing number of schools add tablets or laptops to their back-to-school lists.

Education Minister Hekia Parata said this morning members of the wider education profession would play a key role in further developing school leadership initiative.

The catalyst for the PM's announcement regarding four new roles in the teaching profession is the longstanding problem of persistent and growing disparity, writes Viviane Robinson.

Rod Emmerson's view on politics.

National has managed to win praise from many of its usual critics - even the teacher unions - for its latest policy to try to lift student achievement.

The leadership of New Zealand schools has been overhauled, with the Government creating new roles including 'executive principals' and 'expert teachers'. The change was announced today by Prime Minister John Key in a state of the nation-style speech in Auckland

Taxpayer money set aside for education has been used to drive enrolments at controversial charter schools through radio and newspaper advertisements.

Otara teenager Sipa Deidoe had never been inside a theatre until he came into the Aotea Centre for a first meeting about a new arts project late last year.

PM John Key is today expected to unveil a plan that will allow the boards of some poorly performing schools to hire high performing principals with big pay incentives.

Since my Food in Schools Bill - to provide food to lower-decile schools - was drawn out of the Parliamentary ballot, I've been rethinking it, writes David Shearer.

Young kids who use an iPad or other touch-screen device can get the same benefits as physical play, new research indicates - although the type of virtual activity is crucial.

South Auckland communities have been assured a potential new motorway, which they feared may cut through more than 100 homes and several schools, will give them a wide berth.

One of the most prestigious universities on the planet has apologised after accidentally emailing a list of poorly performing students' marks to their peers.

Goal to correct education 'left-wing bias' looks to critics like political exercise.

A South Auckland primary school is fighting to keep its doors open following proposed plans to build a new motorway link that would run right through it

An arson which damaged four classrooms and destroyed a toilet block at an Auckland primary school has left the school community angry and disappointed.

Safety barriers have been installed in the Auckland University building where two people have fallen to their deaths.

Closed schools with rateable values of more than $42m have not been sold - amid concerns vandalism and neglect have turned boarded-up grounds into "rotting corpses".

Shelley Bridgeman ponders the trend for boys’ schools inviting girls in.

With no meaningful public transport system and a ban on women drivers, getting to school in Saudi Arabia is a challenge beyond many students.

A man caught posing as a medical student was involved in cadaver dissection and examinations of other students.

A leaflet drop in a leafy Auckland suburb suggests house prices there will plummet if rezoning plans go ahead.

Girls from poorer suburbs may be shut out of a top Catholic girls' school in one of Auckland's richest suburbs when an enrolment zone is introduced this year.

School injuries are on the rise - with explosions, scalding liquid, and fungi ingestion among the causes of more than 77,600 injuries in the past year.