The Govt's plan to cut Education Ministry backroom staff would force paperwork on to frontline workers, the Public Service Association says.

Once parents join Education Minister Anne Tolley in the national standards debate, she wins, as was evident yesterday.

Tertiary education providers will lose some funding if their students suffer high failure and drop out rates, Steven Joyce says.

A jury has heard allegations against an Auckland primary schoolteacher accused of grooming a male pupil for sex.

Mary Ashby-Green asks whether starting school on the fifth birthday is good for our children

Claims by one of Hollywood director James Cameron's closest collaborators that he was hounded out of New Zealand by an academic witch-hunt in the 1980s are pure fantasy, say those he has accused.

The Government will double funding to tackle truancy after a survey of schools found more than 30,000 children a day are skipping classes.

An American author who claims to have earned a doctorate at Victoria University has no such qualification, the university says.