Financially strapped secondary schools are cutting back on classroom activities, dropping field trips, and ditching science experiments.

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.

Two high school students from Tauranga and their robot will be heading to the United States this weekend hoping to become world champions.

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.

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.

Some teachers need to get over their victim mentality and recognise the benefit of cutting their holiday time, a leading principal says.

There are growing concerns schoolboy rugby is a fertile environment for drug taking to become rife.

Getting the Government's Investing in Educational Success programme running in relatively quick order was never going to be easy. The concept was bound to be opposed by some.

Our nation's children will never be better at mathematics than the ministry's curriculum material allows them to be, writes Gus Hubbard.

A flagship charter school has lost nearly a quarter of its students and is still battling problems as it nears the end of its first year.

Mike Hosking writes: One of the things you get used to very quickly when you grow up in Christchurch is that people believe the role of the school in your life defines who you are.