A self-proclaimed "physics nerd" from Burnside High School is heading to Nasa after winning a scholarship to space camp.

The Government will invest $80.5 million of operating funding over four years to lift educational achievement, including funding for behaviour programmes.

Principals say the Government had no real choice but to stick with troubled school payroll system Novopay.

Auckland's Rudolf Steiner schools could lose their only religious instruction teacher because of an Immigration New Zealand decision not to recognise her as a religious worker.

Children in Britain can now text their teachers to report bullying, in an initiative that makes it safer to come forward.

It's exam time for applicants hoping to run charter schools, the Act Party's competitive prod at state schools which are said to be failing too many Maori, Pacific and other "disadvantaged" kids.

A former Far North deputy principal will be sentenced in August on 74 charges of sexual offending against boys.

Teenagers in a pocket of rural Georgia have held their first integrated school prom, ending decades of racial segregation that kept black and white pupils apart.

Our target is to double the effectiveness of teaching and learning in half the time and half the cost, writes Peter Mazany.

Many people assume that sending their child to a private school will boost their academic achievement, writes Judith Nowotarski. That assumption is wrong.

Another 172 new defects have been found with the Novopay school payroll system since the Government began fixing original bugs at the end of February.

Former Air New Zealand boss Rob Fyfe says university business students don't understand leadership in the real world.

The Ministry of Education has begun legal action against major building product companies over its huge repair bill for leaky school buildings.

I don't believe teaching in New Zealand is a profession in the true sense of the word, writes Peter Lyons. A profession such as law or medicine or accounting controls entry into its own ranks.

It's a subject schools and universities don't like to dwell on - the likelihood that students may be cheating their way to academic success and higher qualifications.

New Zealand's biggest home childcare provider is rewording its contracts to impose new conditions in relation to the publicly-funded 20 hours' "free" childcare."

An estimated 2000 people marched in downtown Auckland this afternoon in protest at the Government's education reforms.

The University of Auckland has been knocked off its perch in a ranking of universities on the research performance of academic staff.

Already-full schools face being made to cram in more students as the Government struggles to cope with the growth in Auckland's population.

There are no plans to replicate the way Christchurch schools have been rationalised elsewhere in the country, Education Minister Hekia Parata has assured primary school principals.

Teachers know they are in an ideological battle over the future of public education, writes Peter O'Connor. That is why on Saturday they will be marching in civic centres across the country.