Nearly a quarter of 10-year-olds say they are bullied on a weekly basis.

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.

A number of schools have been closed due to flooding, affecting some students due to sit exams after afternoon.

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.

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".

The Government's crackdown on student loan borrowers in Australia has stepped up a notch.

More 18-year-olds are leaving school with NCEA Level 2 - a "stand-out" achievement in Government education targets.

Minister of Education Hekia Parata will be making a big move after she finishes her role in government next year.

Requests for help from the Ministry of Education's traumatic incident team are coming in on more than a daily basis.

Around $2.1 million will be invested to build a total of six new classrooms at schools in the Wellington and Kapiti regions, Education Minister Hekia Parata announced today.

A taxi driver who repeatedly molested a special needs teenager has been denied parole.

COMMENT: The first time our son stuttered I burst out laughing. By the next day he could barely get a word out at all and it wasn't a laughing matter.

The Ministry of Education has put schools on notice: stop using cell-like seclusion rooms as punishment immediately.

Education Minister Hekia Parata revealed that 8 of the 64 special schools in New Zealand are using a seclusion room.

Education Minister Hekia Parata says the Prime Minister's suggestion that her husband's ill-health played a part in her shock decision to retire from politics is wrong.