Budget keeps up with inflation for schools and preschools but tertiary spending cut.

Ten voices from the Education Summit on how to improve our education system.

Expect higher funding for qualified preschool teachers, careers advisers, driving lessons.

An extra 1750 preschoolers will get specialist help in the coming year.

Parents deny Education Ministry's claim of earlier fall ascribed to pathologist.

Preschool owner said Ava-Rose was hurt on a slide on her first day.

Police and WorkSafe are investigating after 20-month-old died of a brain bleed.

Parents vow to speak out after their 20-month-old son died following daycare fall.

The child died in hospital on November 9 last year.

More than half of New Zealanders support a pay rise for teachers of at least 10 per cent.

Report on complaints against ECE services will come out this week - much later than usual.

COMMENT: Gun education for pre-schoolers should include the children's view.

Educators shocked at Evolve Education's gun safety kit for preschoolers.

Early childhood education costs will increase if children can't start school before 5.

No one shrugs their shoulders or says "I dunno" in Katie Pennicott's class.

Education summits in May will kick off wide-ranging reforms.

Who better to get advice from ahead of the school year than a teacher?

Low fat or full cream? Despite official guidelines, most Kiwi toddlers drink the latter.

27% of childcare workers would not send their own children to the centre they work at.

Preschool teacher censured despite discharge without conviction for assaulting a relative.

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

Over 1300 people signed petition against turning Pt Chevalier Kindergarten into a daycare.

Auckland kindergartens' shift to all-day care is now in doubt as their CEO quits.

Herald investigation: More and more children treated in hospital for severe dental decay.

NZ students are paying the seventh-highest tertiary fees in the developed world.

Girls pull ahead of boys in languages as early as 2, a new study shows

Election voters must choose between two starkly different sets of education priorities.

Men teaching preschoolers have almost quadrupled in nine years, but lobbyists want more.

Labour will boost funding to early childhood education by nearly $200m.

Healthier food and drink and more exercise have cut preschoolers' tooth decay by a fifth.