The Ministry of Education is offering schools professional development programmes to help teachers deliver sex education.

Secondary school students around the country will be putting their learning to the test from today, as NCEA exams kick off.

What makes the biggest difference to a kid's education is something every kid and parent knows - the quality of the teaching in the classroom, writes Education Minister Hekia Parata

Teaching economics to adolescent boys often requires the use of bad analogies to reduce their natural inclination towards sleep, writes Peter Lyons. I am blessed with a monotone that invites slumber.

While most teenagers spend their spare time checking their Facebook updates, Yasmine Dai has been more interested in staring into murky tanks of sea water.

The headmaster of one of Auckland's most popular boys' schools will defer retirement to lead the revitalisation of a struggling school across town.

What we need to be talking about is the kind of learning that we think is appropriate before we get to assessment, writes Steve Maharey. Good learning begins with the curriculum.

The trend is growing for programming to become the language of choice in schools.

It's been humbling to watch reactions of our own students and teachers to the events of the past week, writes Manurewa High principal Salvatore Gargiulo.

Grumpy teenagers who don't want to get out of bed have had their complaints vindicated by scientists who analysed 30 years of sleep science.

When it comes to hooking young Kiwis on science, there might be no brighter way than making things glow in the dark.

The principal who introduced Cambridge exams to New Zealand says he believes the qualification still has a place here, as a top school opts out.

With all the complexities and these weighty matters for Educanz to resolve, how will the "independent voice" of the profession know that it is on track?

She aced her level 3 NCEA exams at only Year 12 and now a bright spark Auckland student has scooped gold in an international geography competition.

A new report says there is no evidence that programmes are providing teens a more effective pathway to further education and training.

Many teachers would like students to be able to do external assessment "online, anytime", NZQA says.

NCEA results suggest boys are beginning to catch up with girls in their senior school years.

Evidence has emerged showing the grades of boys are finally catching up with girls' since a radical overhaul of the secondary school exam system.

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.

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.