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.

School classes will be disrupted as thousands of teachers hold meetings about a funding proposal feared to be the return of bulk funding.

Official targets for Maori primary pupils are likely to be missed by as much as 20 per cent in some cases.

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.

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.

Teacher aides should be paid in the same way as teachers, an education union says, as new research shows they are among the worst-off occupations.

Top public sector CEOs reap at least $50,000 in pay rises and bonuses.

Senior education officials say the teacher drain from Auckland is reaching crisis point - leading to calls for an "Auckland allowance".

The Ministry of Education is offering schools professional development programmes to help teachers deliver sex education.

Almost half of preschoolers referred to a government service because of learning or behavioural difficulties are not getting help quickly enough.

A troubled private Christian school forced to close at the end of last term over safety fears for children will fight to re-open.

Ballooning numbers of preschool kids being taught at home by under-qualified grandparents and nannies - at the taxpayers' expense.

All Ministry of Education-contracted vehicles used to transport special needs children will have cameras installed following the case of a driver who sexually assaulted a girl he was tasked with....

Efforts to sell Fisher & Paykel Finance are gathering momentum, but mixed messages are emerging over when the deal might be clinched.

A successful campaign against a failure to include parents in an overhaul of the special education system has seen an extra 33 meetings held around the country.

Education bosses are now considering calling in debt collectors to chase the teachers who between them owe more than $2.5 million.

The principal who introduced Cambridge exams to New Zealand says he believes the qualification still has a place here, as a top school opts out.

Parents of students at Opotiki College are supporting the school despite it being hauled into the spotlight over sexual allegations involving its students.