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

Her own boy has done okay - but over a 35-year teaching career Margaret McCaw has helped in the development of hundreds of other children.

A high school teacher who had sex with her former student has been censured and banned from teaching by the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal.

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.

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

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.

Labour wants to end "voluntary" school donations by offering a grants of $100 per student to schools that stop asking parents to fund "day to day" spending.

A leading psychologist says parents are using lawyers to work out issues at schools, after a teen successfully challenged a suspension for refusing to cut his hair.

Act's education policy of allowing schools to opt into a charter school format has prompted an education union to urge National to steer clear of any coalition partnership deals.

Hawke's Bay student Lucan Battison and his controversial head of hair got the last minute all-clear to attend his school ball last night.

Editorial: Justice Collins made it clear that his judgment related only to this case. It did not rule on the lawfulness of schools' rules that attempt to regulate a student's hair.

School-leavers would be issued with a certificate detailing their tardiness, attendance and attitude under a scheme called for by employers.

Schools are increasingly putting students under closed-circuit television surveillance to cut bullying.

With NZ's education system dropping in world rankings, is our curriculum keeping pace with a rapidly-changing world and do enough children have full access to new technology?

Serious health and safety issues including drug use and bullying plagued one of New Zealand's first charter schools as its management became dysfunctional.

I reckon that single-sex schools and healthy cereal are the same phenomenon, writes Verity Johnson.

Health services at more than one in 10 New Zealand schools have been found to consist of little more than the offer of a sticking plaster.

Boys who attend single-sex schools are more likely to leave with higher qualifications than their male counterparts at co-educational schools, according to new research.

A principal is flabbergasted at a decision to allow a liquor store to open in a former video parlour directly opposite his school in Mangere.

Rugby players from a top school have been caught shoplifting at a world championship in Japan.

Researcher Hana Turner's reports of racist attitudes among her fellow teachers show prejudice is as deeply woven into our school system as ever.