Around $9 million will be invested in the redevelopment of Edgecumbe College in the Bay of Plenty, Education Minister Hekia Parata

LEAVE: Ngarimu Simpkins, pictured in court this week, has gone on leave while Rotorua Boys' High School makes a decision about his

An independent inquiry should immediately investigate the use of "time out" rooms in schools, says the head of the national Autism charity.

Angry parents say they will pull their children from a Wellington school caught using a "time-out" room for naughty pupils unless there is more accountability.

EXCLUSIVE: Mother hits out at Wellington primary school's "dirty little secret": "I'm horrified a school would do that, my son is petrified of the dark."

More than 1300 schools will be worse off as a result of a radical new funding system, the Herald can reveal.

The release of seclusion and restraint guidelines to teachers faced with violent and extreme situations has been delayed due to legal problems.

Teachers are demanding to know if they risk police charges for physically separating school fights or defending themselves when students attack.

The news that teachers fear legal action for stopping school fights underlines what a hard job school teaching must be.

Herald investigation: Some teenagers are taking spurious NCEA standards - learning about toilet cleaning, household shopping and shift work.

The number of "extra" teachers paid by schools has shot up by more than 50 per cent over the past four years, new figures show.

Within minutes of walking into her first high-school physics class Amelia Unufe felt like an outsider.

A Herald investigation has found deep disparities hidden beneath rising high school pass-rates tied to students' socio-economic status and ethnicity.

COMMENT: Funding for schools should be focused on what matters most: education.

School-age students will be able to enrol in an accredited online learning provider instead of attending school, under new Government legislation.

The Fox Glacier School roll has fallen to five, its lowest number in over 20 years when the village school was briefly closed.

Struggling families who keep their children from school to mind younger siblings or sick parents are believed to be behind alarming

Parents are insisting their tamariki get a Maori education and immersion schools are feeling the pressure.

About 70 children will have to move out of their Ellerslie preschool at the end of this term to make way for a planned retirement village.

It is a tough task for teenagers to make sound decisions about their career path.

Labour wants careers advice to be more professional.

Newmarket School will get a four-storey high classroom block to cater for its growing roll as part of an $8.7 million redevelopment of the site.

Christchurch's Redcliffs School will stay open, it has been announced.

School principals uncertain about their right to discipline international students have asked the Ministry of Education to clear up confusion.

The Government has announced it will spend more than $14 million rebuilding a Manurewa primary school riddled with toxic mould and asbestos.

A parent of a pupil at Salisbury School has spoken of his disappointment over the proposal to close the special needs school his daughter attends.

A decision to start discussions over the future of a special education school for girls is "unbelievably short-sighted", the school's board chairman says.

Education Minister Hekia Parata has talked for years about replacing the decile system of school funding.

EXCLUSIVE: Government evaluates plan to allocate cash based on students' risk of failure.