The chances of the most disadvantaged students getting any benefit from a PPP school may be no better than the toss of a coin, writes John O'Neill.

It is many years since our primary schools adopted "new maths".

New Zealand's foremost mathematician has spoken out against the way maths is taught in schools, saying children need to know basic arithmetic before they try to start problem solving.

A leaked document threatens to sabotage an ambitious bid for an $800,000 "tele-medicine" scheme for remote Far North schools.

Dr Lance O'Sullivan says he would not see most of Kaitaia's children with skin infections if he didn't go into schools to look for them.

A former Mt Albert Grammar student says a headmaster's speech about education being a "silver bullet" was eerily similar to one given in fictional TV show The West Wing.

Minister in charge of Novopay Steven Joyce says he understands the frustration of secondary teachers who say they will pursue legal action over the Novopay payroll system.

The Post Primary Teachers' Association has launched legal action seeking compensation for members affected by the Novopay payroll system.

Special-needs students have been placed at risk by the Government's decision to switch taxi companies used to transport them to school, parents and a principal say.

Healey, the public sector director in Microsoft NZ's Enterprise and Partner group, has been at the company only a matter of months. But he relishes the intellectual challenge of working with the public sector on issues of national importance.

By trekking across town twice a day, any conceivable benefits are negated by a longer day, none of your schoolmates living close by, less exercise, and rootlessness. This behaviour is just plain dumb.

A physics teacher who had a sexual relationship with a female student from the age of 15 has been struck off - but the teachers' disciplinary tribunal is protecting his identity.

Stephen Hovell, the principal of the school where confessed paedophile James Parker preyed on children has been sacked.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is considering a return to basic arithmetic for primary school children in an attempt to lift New Zealand's faltering performance in maths.

Decades of military misrule have left the country's education in a mess. But change is in the air

The first software upgrade of the troubled Novopay system will be rolled out this weekend.

A former director of charter schools overseas is urging New Zealand not to introduce them here.

The Education Minister has confirmed that up to 50 teaching positions will be lost in the shake-up of Canterbury Schools.

More than 2000 extra prisoners will study basic maths and reading in a bid to improve their job prospects on release and cut reoffending.

Three Christchurch intermediate schools, parents and Opposition MPs say Education Minister Hekia Parata broke promises to keep intermediate schools open.

The Ministry of Education says it will work with its taxi companies to ensure no special needs child is stranded without a lift to or from school.

A visiting opponent of charter schools has told the education and science committee in Parliament today the Government should not proceed with charter schools.

Special needs students have been stood up with no ride to and from school after a change in the taxi company used by the Government.