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.

Black leather shoes mandatory at many New Zealand schools in winter are causing harm to children's feet, say podiatrists.

Parents are raising more than $357 million a year in donations and fundraising to support the "free" schooling system.

A German international student has been expelled from school and faces being kicked out of the country because he had one puff on a joint in his free time.

New Zealand students will move out of "the dark ages" and complete experimental NCEA assessments online this year.

Workshop aims to equip school-leavers with basic grasp of 'worldly skills

There will be less chance of dodgy teachers resurfacing at other schools under legislation to be introduced in Parliament today, Education Minister Hekia Parata says.

More investment needs to go into the country's universities if they're to move higher up a list ranking the world's institutions, the head of Auckland University says.

International students are paying tens of thousands of dollars to attend our state schools - funding that is crucial to lessons, teacher development and other support for locals.

A Herald analysis shows students do far better under internal assessment, away from the pressure of tests

New Zealand's most at-risk school students should receive similar funding as those who are attending controversial charter schools, those involved in alternative education say.

Looking over the curriculum for Bible in Schools, what is most striking is how innocuous it is, writes Dr Paul Moon. It makes its critics appear self-righteous and doctrinaire.

About 30 boys are being pulled out of class and made to sit in the school hall while staff at Whangarei Boys' High School chase up outstanding fees.

An Auckland school is starting the year on a high after a $1 million donation and plans to use the money to set up a permanent source of funds.

A top Auckland secondary school is asking parents to shell out more than $1000 when their sons return to class in two weeks' time.

Thousands of Kiwi parents have a new shopping dilemma this year - they will need to buy a tablet or other digital device for their child, writes Diana Clement.

Education Minister Hekia Parata said this morning members of the wider education profession would play a key role in further developing school leadership initiative.

A "free" state education in NZ will cost the average parent nearly $35,000 by the time their child finishes secondary school, a survey claims.

The leadership of New Zealand schools has been overhauled, with the Government creating new roles including 'executive principals' and 'expert teachers'. The change was announced today by Prime Minister John Key in a state of the nation-style speech in Auckland