New Education Minister Nikki Kaye plans to be a 'modernising' Minister of Education.

New Education Minister Nikki Kaye starts amidst large education reforms.

A petition signed by 210 children has restored monkey bars to climb on in Grey Lynn Park

A new report cites evidence Maori and Pasifika students are unfairly judged by teachers.

Teachers are being kicked, punched and stabbed by children of P-addicted mothers.

A school principal shared hard-core pornographic images with his staff by email.

Autism NZ CEO Dane Dougan says all teachers should learn strategies for autistic pupils.

Treasury have estimated how a controversial new funding model will affect schools.

Parents looking for school that will take autistic Hamilton boy expelled for hitting.

Remote school sent children home because roads were expected to be flooded.

Welby Ings believes teachers need to disobey rules to help students believe in themselves.

New Lynn's Fruitvale School will get a new $9.5 million classroom block.

Auckland's population growth has sparked a school zoning row in Mt Albert.

Parents of Hobsonville Primary School pupils are pleased at the decision.

Parents are battling an Auckland about the removal of 360 tonnes of contaminated soil.

An asbestos expert says an Auckland school shouldn't remove 700 tonnes of contaminated soil while the children are around.

A top educator says streaming children into top, middle and bottom classes is steadily dragging down Kiwi students' learning.

Is New Zealand's education system failing an entire generation?

Some parents want the school to wait until Christmas.

In the driving rain, a bit of number eight wire thinking saved an auditorium from flooding.

A small-town school has four empty classroom and has lost 80 students in four years following local job losses.

Kiwi children, aged 9 to 18, have revealed how much pocket money they receive.

An accidental strangling in an Australian school has led to one Auckland school moving to cut off the cords from pupils' hats in a bid to prevent similar incidents here.

A massive under-spend of more than $330 million for a flagship Government educational policy has been revealed.

An Auckland schoolboy was approached by an unknown man in a white van yesterday, in what is suspected to be an attempted abduction.

Leader of country's largest public school quits to run a private school.

Troubled schools: A school where teachers were allegedly given "illegal" payments is one of nine under Government control.

It's taken travelling the world for Napier MP Stuart Nash to realise that there's no better place to raise a family than Napier; and

Dozens of teachers were disciplined or struck off last year for sexual, inappropriate or aggressive behaviour towards students.

The new school year starts next week as the number of empty teaching places in secondary schools is the highest in almost a decade.