A former Canterbury primary school principal who groomed a young boy before sexually assaulting him over half a decade was today jailed for more than nine years.

Few teachers think National Standards have had a positive impact on achievement, a new report says.

The mother of a Hamilton primary school student believes the school and other authorities have tried to brush the incident under the carpet, reports say.

David Seymour has disputed claims charter schools have been inflating their NCEA exam results.

Charter school NCEA pass rates are out of line with state schools, new analysis shows.

At least two more schools have been investigated after complaints about seclusion rooms - including one that was eventually closed.

NZ students rank above OECD average, but girls and rich students have seen their results drop.

Schools are struggling to recruit hundreds of teachers ahead of the 2017 school year.

Today's bomb hoax won't be the last time schools are threatened, a security expert warns.

The head of an Auckland daycare where a child died is speaking out for the first time.

Four Westport schools will lose thousands of dollars of yearly funding after again failing to convince the Ministry of Education to overturn their decile ratings.

Pupils with learning difficulties struggle to get the help they need, despite Government changes to tackle inequity.

Worried Hato Petera College principal is expecting bad news about the future of his school.

John Paul College principal Patrick Walsh is standing down from the Secondary Principals' Association of New Zealand after 10 years

Thousands of central Wellington workers face an uncertain week as the clean-up from Monday's devastating 7.8 earthquake clean-up.

Raw footage of the moment two students launched at a police officer after another allegedly attacked the principal's car has been revealed online.

The abduction and sexual assault of a boy, 11, has left parents and schools in Ranui on edge.

Two schools became an unexpected battleground today in the squabble over who will win over Mt Roskill.

A west Auckland secondary school has hit a wall in its attempt to expand into a full secondary and bilingual facility.

Most schools will open tomorrow, following hundreds of closures after the quake.

Scholarship exams have been cancelled, but NCEA exams can go ahead in schools if they are not earthquake damaged, NZQA says.

The two toddlers most seriously hurt when a tree toppled at an Auckland daycare last Tuesday are expected to be discharged on Monday.

A childcare centre manager who left children unsupervised - one was eventually found on the street by members of the public - is not

Thousands of school students are ditching the paper and pen and taking their revision online.

An event at Hill St Early Childhood Centre in Wellington this morning will publicise the campaign to restore funding and quality to ECE.

It is unbelievable that a difficult child could be locked in a tiny cell at any New Zealand school nowadays.

An Auckland primary school is asking parents to fork out up to $100 for a transition-to-school programme for under 5s.

Consultation has begun on an update of the 20-year-old early childhood education curriculum.

A massive privacy breach has struck the beleaguered Novopay school payroll with personal details of staff members sent to wrong schools.

The mum whose complaint about a cell-like seclusion room at a primary school sparked a proposed law change says it's "what she wanted most".