Auckland Grammar met with officials today following the school's decision to offer Cambridge examinations instead of the national NCEA qualification this year.

Ministry of Education officials and Auckland Grammar will today discuss the school's decision to offer Cambridge examinations instead of the national qualification, NCEA, this year.

One of the main lessons Nikki Bodde has learned from the Incredible Years parenting programme is not to use the word "but".

Doctors and nurses are being recruited to run parenting programmes in a bid to intervene before unruly children turn into delinquent teenagers.

Thousands of New Zealand parents are going back to school to learn how to be better parents - but experts still do not know if the multiple programmes are reaching the parents who most need them.

Auckland Grammar is defying the Government by becoming the first state school to dump NCEA at the Year 11 level. Other schools may follow suit if the move goes smoothly.

A clean-up began yesterday at a primary school left in ruins after a fire swept through a third of its buildings on Friday.

A blaze which "totalled" a block at Auckland's Glendowie Primary School is being investigated as an arson.

Much of an Auckland primary school was in ruins last night after an intense blaze which created a vast plume of smoke visible from many parts of the city.