New Zealand secondary school students will soon sit their exams online as lengthy paper and pen assessments face extinction.

Low-quality education providers will face the axe and universities and schools considered "high quality" will enjoy privileges, including the ability to offer prioritised visa processing to students.

A tiny Christchurch school that today won a David vs Goliath legal battle against a government-forced closure is hosting a victory party tonight.

A child bitten by her teacher, teachers smacking children and staff smoking near pupils were among almost 250 complaints - including abuse and neglect - at early childhood education centres reported last year.

Working at McDonald's will gain credits towards a university degree in a deal between the fast-food giant and Massey University.

Their trips were 50 years apart and to different coasts, but Rod Bieleski and Natalie Coates found similarities during their time in the United States.

In a rare move, the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal has named two teachers involved in high-profile criminal cases.

A Bluff woman has been named New Zealand's champion of water safety.

Schools struggling to cope with Auckland's growing population are to be helped by at least $100 million as the Government admits it has had to play catch-up.

The enduring joy of working with young people, and the almost unique capacity of teaching to change lives is the story that needs to be better, writes Graeme Aitken.

New Zealand's sole representative on an international list of the top 200 universities has slipped, rankings show.

Hundreds of teachers are out of work as graduates fight for vacancies which can attract as many as 100 applications each.

The Privacy Commissioner has been consulted on the possibility of using identification numbers attached to preschoolers as a way to track and punish parents.

The "unlawful" decision to merge a Christchurch school will see 70 per cent of its pupils "scatter" to other city schools, a court heard today.

A team of "exceptionally gutsy" schoolgirl cyclists have won silver medals in a national competition less than three weeks after they were injured in a road smash.

Extra money may be needed to set up the first charter schools as official documents reveal more about the contentious schools and why some applicants, including Destiny Church, were rejected.

New Zealand's children will lose out on jobs if the schooling system becomes too focused on tests and traditional measures of achievement, a visiting expert has warned.

Students could be pushed into subjects which guarantee passes if achievement data is used to help judge whether a school should be taken over, say Greens.

Parents are being warned against sending their children to the best-performing school in the neighbourhood if they want their children to do well.

The Government plans to build three new schools to meet population growth in Auckland, Hamilton, and Queenstown and will open them in the first term of 2015.

Schools where children are failing exams could be taken over by the Government as the Education Minister warns staff need to be held accountable for students' performance.

Older long-term unemployed people look set to lose out in a radical reshuffle of foundation education which will give higher priority to young people.

An Auckland father who says his daughter was told during religious instruction that she would go to hell is campaigning to have the classes dropped from her state school.

Samuel Mikaio and Benjamin Ahomana have been using their classroom's new iMac computer for only a couple of days, but have already all but mastered it.

A New Zealand health software company has announced plans to take on 150 new staff in Auckland and Christchurch over the next three months as it continues global growth.

Uni wasn't about hacky sack or long, afternoons in Shadows Bar for Adam Storey. He'll graduate tomorrow with a PhD that looks at how the body recovers from weightlifting.

Auckland Grammar has sent 16 boarding students packing after they were caught drinking before a school social.