Industry training is being reformed, but experts are unsure if the changes will be enough our trade education buck.

A Pacific community leader has warned of a "Pasifika uprising" if the Government forces Auckland University to take more engineering students.

Using the NCEA framework, the employment-focused model will allow students to choose a career and work towards gaining the skills they need to succeed in that job.

More than two-thirds of young New Zealanders are not saving for their future - and just over half budget, a survey has found.

The Ministry of Education has promised to reimburse schools for the extra costs they incurred sorting out problems caused by its new Novopay system.

Auckland University and the Government appear headed for a showdown over what courses the university is offering.

As students look to next year, the Herald begins a week-long investigation into why so many are leaving school without the skills they need.

Nearly four months after starting as Purakaunui School's secretary, Jacque Ruston still has not been paid under the new Novopay system.

The Ministry of Education is defending the controversial teachers' pay system Novopay, saying more than 92,000 school staff were paid correctly overnight.

Catherine Isaac says it is wrong to propose that limiting the concept in such ways could have improved the focus on helping disadvantaged children.

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.

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.

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

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.