The most distressing thing about charter schools in the US is their role in increasing ethnic and socio-economic segregation, writes Robin Duff, which is a direct consequence of their not having to take local students.

North Shore students have been banned from hugging during school hours because too many of them were consistently arriving late to their classes.

An education union has called for an urgent inquiry into the Novopay payroll system following recent revelations of a security breach as well as ongoing teacher pay problems.

While in Britain last month I stayed with my good friend Sarah and her husband Nick from university days. It was so good to see them, we talked long into the night reminiscing, and howling with laughter about our long-gone student days.

Swotting for NCEA exams has been made easier with the very device parents and teachers hold as the enemy of study - teenagers' cellphones.

The Ministry of Education and the NZQA are being called on to release national school statistics at the same time as students get their marks back.

An estimated 143,000 anxious students will sit NCEA exams tomorrow - if they all turn up. Last year 3000 missed their big day.

When people post deliberately extreme comments from the anonymity of cyberspace, the effects can be devastating - and sometimes fatal.

Editorial: People surely did not expect, and do not want, their taxes to fund faith-based teaching. "Many of these groups will also not have a sufficiently robust record in providing education."

Northland school principals have been invoicing the Ministry of Education for time spent trying to sort out the Novopay payroll system.

Two co-educational secondary schools in Dunedin plan to cut teacher numbers as the fall in school-age children starts to affect the secondary sector.

The nightmare that the Qualification Authority has had to live with over the past decade has been the media scrutiny of NCEA, writes Peter Lyons.

Prime Minister's use of the word "gay" as a disparaging adjective has undermined their campaign against hate speech directed at gay students.

An assistant principal who posted racy photographs of herself on her Facebook profile faces a review after the images circulated among her students.

A teacher has taken a case to the Employment Relations Authority claiming underpayment, a claim that could affect 2000 teachers and cost the Ministry of Education $6.6 million in salary costs.

Police are investigating one of the country's top school principals over a physical confrontation with his former wife.

It's not the education system that is at fault, but the economic and social systems which, if they were doing their job, would be identifying and helping those who start life on the back foot.

Wanganui Collegiate School has gained integration into the state network of schools, Education Minister Hekia Parata announced today.

The charter schools advisory group wants those who have no teaching qualifications to be given official registration - a call at odds with Govt policy.

Lesley Longstone doesn't look particularly "beleaguered" sitting in her expansive office at the Ministry of Education in Wellington.

About 200 parents, grandparents, students, teachers and principals packed a Christchurch school gym last night to protest the Government's plan to close the school and others across the region.

A final decision has been made on the future of two South Island residential schools catering to children with intellectual disabilities - they will close.

There is a cost to businesses and the economy when innovative thinking and individualism is suppressed, though obviously a balance is required, writes Peter Lyons.