A former Northland teacher has pleaded guilty to a further 25 charges, including five charges of sexual assault, at Kaitaia District Court this morning.

Meet the new generation of New Zealand diplomats.

The 23 children in the classroom at Richmond Road School in Ponsonby are sitting on the mat, just like the kids in any other primary class.

Prime Minister John Key wants more students to consider learning Mandarin.

The company behind the flawed Novopay system has sent a number of schools the wrong emails about yet-to-be-processed actions regarding their payrolls.

Whatever his teacher and vice-principal thought, it was solved here, in a country village school, by a teacher doing it one way, writes Allyson Gofton.

A teacher aide about to go on her first overseas trip fatally choked at her farewell dinner - the second tragedy to strike Auckland's Birkenhead College in recent days.

The final "vocational pathways" have been launched in an effort to guide students into specific industries.

Auckland's universities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buildings, transforming not only their campuses but the shape of the city they serve.

One in three international students deported or asked to leave voluntarily was Chinese.

Over the past decade, one in five international students gained permanent New Zealand residency within five years of being issued their first student visa.

My daughter's primary school has just had its annual swimming sports day.

Student loan holders will pay $11 more a week from today as the Government ramps up its repayment scheme.

Large brothels have been banned in Lyttelton as part of a city council's clamp down on the sex industry.

Children are better off playing after school than doing hours of homework, educators say.

Education Minister Hekia Parata has corrected an answer to Parliament about the resignation of Education Secretary Lesley Longstone.

Christchurch primary school children have been found accessing internet porn sites at home and sharing website addresses with their friends at school.

New Zealanders' long lives and educational attainment have put the country in the top 10 most developed countries in the world, according to a United Nations measure.

A church pastor says underage girls in south Auckland are being pimped out by their parents and in some families three generations are working as prostitutes.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is refusing to budge on Thursday's Christchurch schools closure and merger deadline in spite of an Ombudsman's Office investigation into the consultation process.

One of central Auckland's green spaces has been secured after a new lease agreement which will enable an 81-year-old teaching farm to carry on.

Prostitutes as young as 13 are earning up to $600 a night in South Auckland, says an MP who will be at a meeting to discuss an "outbreak" of underage street workers.

The Education Minister has accepted there's room for improvement after a rare move from the Ombudsman to investigate Education Ministry consultation processes

Out of 65 countries, New Zealand ranks seventh in reading, 13th in maths, and seventh in science, writes Peter Hughes.