You wouldn't expect a parenting guide to include explicit graphic descriptions of a hardcore porn slide show, exhibited by Scandinavian psychiatrists at a Wisconsin conference on treating sex offenders.

Temper tantrums, answering back, deliberately annoying ... it could be that your child's not just naughty, but has oppositional defiant disorder.

Two teenagers forced to take drug tests at their high school deserve apologies for their inappropriate and unfair treatment, say their parents.

Tertiary students who fail more than half their courses may lose their student loans as the Government moves to crack down on abuse.

Finance Minister Bill English says decisions will be made mid-year on whether to use public-private partnerships to build new schools and a new prison.

Police have released the name of the student found dead at King's College in Otahuhu, south Auckland, yesterday.

Hesitation is death in Parliament. Hesitation suggests a minister is not on top of his or her portfolio, writes John Armstrong.

A 15-year-old college boy was found dead by his schoolmates in his boarding house this morning.

Commentators who joined in a vicious online attack against a new school principal will be prosecuted, police say.

New Zealand's once-yawning gap in student achievement between schools in rich and poor areas has closed by almost a third in the past five years.

Some of the country's brightest young minds have been named as the top performers in the 2009 Scholarship examinations.

The Government is taking aim at lazy students and courses with high dropout or failure rates in looming reforms in tertiary education.

Dita De Boni delves into some of the more extreme mummy-chat forums on US parenting sites.