A Montessori preschool has been fined $254,000 for misleading parents about funding.

6hrs a day of institutionalised education is too long for young children, critics say.

About $240 million will build new schools across Auckland.

Now We Are Four study shows mothers rent and move often.

A mobile dentistry clinic is being launched for needy families in West Auckland

Lynn Euphemia Abraham is defending 11 charges against nine different children.

A man who was born totally deaf will graduate with a Masters at Auckland University today.

Clip of kids playing in rain before Cyclone Cook hits viewed more than 26 million times.

Teachers have been told to encourage children to speak their first languages in their first few years of education, rather than sticking solely to English.

An early childhood education network has said special attention needs to be paid to the children involved in a tree toppling on a kids' play area in Auckland.

Port Ahuriri Playcentre has stunning new carvings for the kids to enjoy. But they're not from a gallery or marae, they're from prison. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Childcare centres are threatening to sue the police regarding delays in vetting new staff members.

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.

Being a nanny gives school leavers hands-on experience to set them up for a career in childcare.

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

Gloriavale could lose millions of dollars in taxpayer funding over its opposition to identification numbers for preschoolers.

A childcare centre break-out in which two preschoolers unlatched a gate and wandered across a busy road has prompted management to boost security.

Two children unlatched a gate at an early childhood centre in Palmerston North and wandered across a four-lane road.

A complaint against a daycare centre is being investigated after a 2-year-old managed to wrap five rubber bands around her neck.

Cromwell's oldest child care centre is hunting for funding.

Parents are going to extreme lengths to give their children a head start before they hit the school system.

A toddler whose heart stopped after he choked on a sandwich at the home of an Auckland childcare worker should be celebrating his second birthday today.

Of the kids who start at Takanini School each year, only 20 per cent have had early childhood education experience.

Children in early-childhood education, ages 3 to 5, are to be given ID numbers.

Preschool education service provides in-home help for 1000 children.

Marketing to children now starts in infancy, but a conference in Auckland tomorrow will ask what we can do about it, reports Simon Collins.

Parents should have the option to drop their 4-year-old off at school, says a principal who is set to open a preschool on his school's grounds.

Early childhood teachers are being asked to take pay cuts, slash hours and even quit while parents face higher fees.

New Zealand's biggest home childcare provider is rewording its contracts to impose new conditions in relation to the publicly-funded 20 hours' "free" childcare."

An early childhood teacher who forged her qualifications is in prison awaiting sentence and has had her name removed from the New Zealand Teachers Council Register.