Dare to Explore summer reading program at Dawson Primary School in Otara to encourage school kids to read over the school holidays.

Schools are struggling to recruit hundreds of teachers ahead of the 2017 school year.

Today's bomb hoax won't be the last time schools are threatened, a security expert warns.

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.

Two schools became an unexpected battleground today in the squabble over who will win over Mt Roskill.

The international education market is expected to face "minimal" impact following Monday's earthquake in Kaikoura.

The Education Council is set to receive $21 million, to keep it afloat until it can raise teacher registration fees.

Most schools will open tomorrow, following hundreds of closures after the quake.

Enraged teacher picked up student and carried him out of classroom.

Parents can be misled by the school decile system, says a new website.

From next year, all Selwyn House School pupils from the pre-school to Year 8 will be taught mechatronics.

A group of children from a South Taranaki primary school are appealing to the Pope to intervene in an international kidnapping case involving a very special bear.

One teacher allegedly accessed porn at school and blamed it on his son.

Increasing numbers of parents are worried they do not have enough money for their child's education.

COMMENT: Recent cases indicate violence between and against children is widely accepted.

A 9-year-old boy was left crying and scared after former Murrays Bay School principal dragged him from the hall by his collar.

Jonathan Coleman says he attended a fundraising ball where parents were playing with fake cocaine.

Teachers in Auckland have kicked off their campaign against the Government's global funding scheme, at a packed town hall gathering this afternoon.

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

Karamea School students got a lesson on the power of nature today, after lightning struck the school during lunchtime.

We owe it to our kids to have a flexible career advice system that helps them grow a passion for a career they potentially never knew existed. Out with the old, in with the new!

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.

Thousands of children across the country are spending most or all their years of education in a poorly performing school. EU leaders have responded angrily to Nigel Farage attending the European Parliament in its first debate since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.

Three of Auckland Normal Intermediate's teachers are quite excited. Clara Kim, Alicia England and Ben Griffiths have just shown a group of Epsom Girls Grammar teachers around their school and will go on a a reciprocal trip the following day.

After battling against many illnesses, this teacher is glad Owairoa Primary has started teaching children how to limit infections spreading.

COMMENT: In 2008 John Key said National Standards will lift education. Who bought that? National Standards is only a measuring device. Nothing more, writes Andrew Dickens.

COMMENT: We have a major employment problem in this country, writes Mike Hosking. Kids entering the job market with poor education never catch up.

Six years and $250m down the track, has the National Standards education policy been a success? Recent data shows just a small increase