Teachers' unions always insist they are professional bodies serving the interests of education, not just their members.

High school principals will cut the number of pupils attending popular trades academies in a bid to protect the jobs of teachers and senior management.

Boys are often fun to teach. I always swore I would never teach at a boys' school given my own experiences at school in the 1970s. It was violent, brutish and dull.

A carving programme that fostered passion and changed attitudes to learning has been announced as the supreme winner of the Prime Minister's Education Excellence Awards.

Schools are struggling to find maths and science teachers, while middle management jobs are going begging as senior staff retire.

The finances of every public secondary school in NZ are being investigated by the Office of the Auditor-General hunting for breaches over charges to parents.

Four students have been excluded from one of the country's top schools for taking and sending images that constituted "harassment".

An Auckland high school has lost a court battle to keep a child with Asperger’s out of the classroom.

Green Bay High School is going to one of the country's highest courts to fight to keep a teenager with Asperger's out of the classroom.

Schools have been asked to consider offering gender-neutral uniforms as part of new sexuality education guidelines aimed at being more inclusive. Is this a good idea?

Two bandana-clad men have been charged with disorderly behaviour likely to cause violence after going to a college in Mosgiel in school time to confront a pupil.

School leaders should be commended for standing firm on the type of building that suits the Grammar philosophy and pedagogy, writes John Morris.

Students will be sitting exams on computers by the end of this year, as NZQA plans to get rid of some paper-based exams altogether as soon as 2018.

Three of Auckland's biggest public high schools are seeking to build international student hostels on site so they can boost numbers and reap the financial rewards.

An Auckland girls’ school has banned an anonymous messaging app, after students reported problems with bullying and nasty comments.

Principals at poorer schools have defended the huge drop-off in the number of students gaining UE, rejecting accusations they push students into "soft" subjects.

A St Bede’s Board of Trustees member has quit in the wake of a rowing controversy involving two pupils.

Rather than trying to come up with a figure for our pay adjustment, our claim is obvious - 5.5 per cent, the same obscenely generous figure the authority deemed necessary for MPs, writes Steve McCabe.

Students are not being taught enough "space and shape" mathematics and the "huge" learning gap is hurting achievement, the Ministry of Education says.

Ongoing problems with Novopay and why a struggling charter school has not been shut down have been raised with the Ministry of Education in a select committee hearing today.

Students taking part in a sports technology course at an Auckland high school will attend the training sessions of top teams.

Education Minister Hekia Parata has released figures for the first time showing iwi by iwi how Maori children do in early childhood education, primary school and NCEA.

Nearly four in five Auckland secondary schools now ask or permit students to bring a device such as a laptop or tablet - potentially adding hundreds of dollars to back-to-school costs.

Auckland is a great place - but it can be even better. In the second of our five-part Future Auckland series we aim to stimulate debate. Teuila Fuatai reports.

Most teachers and their unions don't seem to understand the rationale behind charter schools, writes Peter Lyons.

One of New Zealand's first charter schools is failing, abysmally, and the Ministry of Education must stop dodging questions, writes Rose Patterson.

The single most reliable indicator of future academic success is the number of books you have in your home when you grow up, writes Peter O'Connor.