Desperate measures to lure former teachers back as new survey finds unfilled vacancies.

OPINION: Our education is too important to be affected by fads and competing ideologies.

Teacher trainees will need better literacy and maths, and eventually postgraduate degrees

Briefings: Building spree creates a risk that development will exceed demand, TEC says.

TEC has told the minister it is keeping a close eye on the developments at Wintec

Social worker important for the well-being of students, principal says.

National Standards have not stopped the reading slide, and may have accelerated it.

Wintec has paid out an average of $18,200 per person in exit packages.

Fees-free policy will help 30,000 at varsity and 50,000 in polytechs or industry training.

The revelations come amid calls for a ministerial inquiry into Hamilton's Wintec.

The incidents happened at 186 schools across the country, including 79 special schools.

Tuakau College scrambled to find battery-powered laptops for NCEA students in a power cut.

Free education could leave our universities less competitive with the world's best.

About 30 maths teachers have now signed an open letter about the NCEA Level 1 maths exam.

School principals say Christmas will be too late to act on teacher shortages for 2018.

Two more schools have told their students not to worry about NCEA Level 1

Dozens of jobs and the Rawene and Kerikeri campuses could face the chop.

National Standards will go and NCEA is also up for review by the new Labour-led Government

The new Government will investigate solar panels to cut school power bills by $20m a year.

Inland Revenue plans a review of tax rebates for school donations.

Almost 200 schools in deprived parts of NZ have on-site health clinics. We visit one.

Mt Albert Grammar School is asking parents to help fund new buildings.

Auckland University is raising fees and cutting staff to meet a budgetary squeeze

Auckland's primary teacher shortage has hit a new record with 287 vacancies.

Government officials have shut down a home-based preschool education business.

The Ombudsman has ordered the Ministry of Education to explain itself.

Two British teachers hired in July have quit in frustration at delays recognising service.

Willie Jackson's new charter school will be in Manurewa, upsetting Te Wharekura o Manurewa

Students who learn in Māori do better in NCEA, even though they come from poorer families.

Learning te reo Māori helps Māori students learn other subjects too, experts say.