The high school several Roast Busters members attended is checking its website.

The first major NCEA exam starts at 9.30am today when 47,000 Year 11 students sit English. For most, it will be their first big external secondary school exam.

As parents and citizens, it is time to question a culture that encourages teenage boys to treat girls like sexual objects, writes Katie Fitzpatrick.

Parents are fuming at early-childhood education centres that charge for public holidays, when the doors are shut and children are not able to attend.

Students at a top Auckland secondary school were breath tested for alcohol as they arrived for their final day at school last week.

About 30 of Auckland's youngest teachers have celebrated the end of their first year's work.

Embalmer Marissa Deadman admits she is sometimes embarrassed when handing out her business card.

Teachers of students as young as 5 will soon have access to new sexuality education guidelines addressing issues such as identity and relationships.

Education Minister Hekia Parata will appoint all nine members of a new agency to replace the Teachers Council.

Thousands of Auckland children are becoming more confident in the water, thanks to a city-wide project teaching them how to swim.

He was kicked out of secondary school and doesn't believe students should receive marks.

The former principal of a Northland Christian school has appeared in court on sex abuse charges involving two young boys more than 40 years ago.

Controversial changes to education should be kept as low-profile as possible, official advice to the Government says.

New Zealand has been rated the fifth most prosperous nation to live in, according to an international report.

Despite new technologies available to students, says author, ABCs of preparing properly still golden advice.

Students at Colwill School in Massey, West Auckland, were part of a digital trial to use LeapPad Ultra education tablets in the classroom. Video / Murray Job

Every New Zealand classroom will soon have access to digital devices - opening up huge learning opportunities, but also a risk of another "digital divide".

Education Minister Hekia Parata's own sympathetic advisory group has called for an investigation, writes Warwick Elley.

A woman banned from seeing her own daughter without supervision is set to qualify as a teacher - just a year after a Family Court judge raised concerns about her parenting.

New graduates with dreams of earning big bucks when they finally enter the workforce need to be realistic about their starting wage and to be clever about what topics they choose to study, recruitment experts say.

Eastern Christchurch's Avonside Girls High and Shirley Boys High are to be relocated to a new shared site following a review of the quake-shattered city's secondary schools.

An urgent audit has been ordered by the government into the spending of state money intended to help Kiwi kids learn te reo Maori.

The Kohanga Reo National Trust has been summoned to the Beehive tonight to discuss allegations of the misuse of funding.

Australian mining magnate and long-time philanthropist Andrew "Twiggy"Forrest has donated A$65 million ($NZ73.9m) to universities in Western Australia.

Prime Minister John Key has warned that any state-funded organisation found to be misspending taxpayer money will have "the book thrown at them.''

Scrapping yearly reporting of controversial national standards results should be investigated, the Government's own advisory group says.

There are allegations of financial mismanagement at the top of a Government-funded organisation whose objective is to help children learn Te Reo.

A high school teacher has been disciplined for calling a Year 10 student a "S-L-U-T'' and referring to her having an abortion in front of classmates.

Analysis of a healthy eating and activity programme first tested in Waikato primary schools shows the project is saving taxpayer money and improving children's lives.

A former senior teacher at a top Auckland school has been referred to the Teachers Council Disciplinary Tribunal for an inappropriate relationship with a pupil and allegedly faking a terminal illness.