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.

Flimsy rules and poor enforcement around size mismatches in junior rugby risk the welfare of its players, says daughter of All Blacks legend Sir Brian Lochore.

Flimsy rules and poor enforcement around size mismatches are putting children in harm's way on the rugby field, says a Masterton mother.

Catherine Zheng needs to plan her study time more than most, as exams start for her and thousands of other students.

Netball star Maria Tutaia has been out of high school for a decade - but that didn't stop her from donning her old school uniform for a special occasion.

As the Government runs the rule over the way our children learn, a US expert suggests change may be needed — but it should start at the top.

Prime Minister John Key says National is likely to outline "a broad sense" of the conditions needed for tax cuts before the election, but no specific details.

Luxurious holidays in the south of France or Rarotonga and an internship in New York are among the prizes on offer at an extravagant school fundraiser.

Schools are being made to re-enrol students they had kicked out for bad behaviour including carrying weapons, physical assaults and drug use.

Adecile 10 Auckland school considered criminal charges after it uncovered a scam it says enabled out-of-zone families to fraudulently enrol children.

Students are being kicked out of some of Auckland's most sought-after schools after officials ruled they were not genuinely living within zone.

What goes through the minds of educational professionals when they see the lengths that property owners will go to remain in a prestigious school zone?

Failure to pass on information at school’s management level was critical to the overlooking of allegations made by students.

The number of young school children achieving or bettering the national standard in reading has fallen or flat-lined in half of the country's regions.

Hostile feedback from residents in some of the country’s most expensive real estate has caused an emerging school to back away from including them in its new zone.

Only 4 per cent of non-Maori secondary school students are learning te reo Maori, the latest figures show.

New Zealanders would rather money was spent on improving teaching standards than on reducing class sizes, a Herald-DigiPoll survey reveals.

As another school success story results in a new school zone, parents fear it'll end in changes to a zone so elite it can add 20 per cent to property prices.

Labour's new teaching policies are response to National's proposal to pay good teachers and principals more and require them to work with others.

Community Spirit category: When high school teacher Roshni Gounder came down with a sudden illness, many people expected her to give up her job.