There are no plans to replicate the way Christchurch schools have been rationalised elsewhere in the country, Education Minister Hekia Parata has assured primary school principals.

A teacher from an exclusive Auckland school is subject to investigation, understood to be over a mystery illness and claims she behaved inappropriately with a student.

Education Minister Hekia Parata has corrected an answer to Parliament about the resignation of Education Secretary Lesley Longstone.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is refusing to budge on Thursday's Christchurch schools closure and merger deadline in spite of an Ombudsman's Office investigation into the consultation process.

The Education Minister has accepted there's room for improvement after a rare move from the Ombudsman to investigate Education Ministry consultation processes

Auckland technology firm Orion Healthcare has launched an initiative aimed at changing the perception of computer science in schools and building the pool of talent the ICT industry needs.

The head of secondary school principals has criticised the Government for not doing enough to help schools combat the growing problem of bullying.

The Ministry of Education is bloated, inefficient and making the jobs of principals more difficult, says the outgoing president of the Secondary Principals' Association.

The chances of the most disadvantaged students getting any benefit from a PPP school may be no better than the toss of a coin, writes John O'Neill.

Oh-kayyyy. So Mike Williams, a former Labour Party president, calls parents who try to get their kids into higher decile schools "dumb", writes Deborah Hill Cone.

It is many years since our primary schools adopted "new maths".

The country's medical schools are lending support to a music teacher who has sounded an alarm over talented students ditching arts to pursue science studies.

In plain language, the Wanganui Collegiate integration is a taxpayer bailout for a failing private school, writes John Minto.

The number of students being stood down for bad behaviour is at its lowest point for more than a decade.

A private investigator has begun knocking on doors across Auckland in a heightened game of cat-and-mouse pitting prominent schools against desperate parents.

Parents can now pay school fees in some bookstores while picking up stationery packs as the battle for back-to-school dollars heats up.

The release and quick withdrawal of some NCEA results early this morning has upset students and been described by one as "highly unethical".

The recent small surge in reports recounting child poverty in New Zealand make grim reading, writes Paul Moon, especially as so many of the conditions blighting children's lives can easily be remedied.

A visiting cyber-bullying expert is urging schools to make students take driver licence-style tests before they can take mobile phones and tablets to class.

Using the NCEA framework, the employment-focused model will allow students to choose a career and work towards gaining the skills they need to succeed in that job.

As students look to next year, the Herald begins a week-long investigation into why so many are leaving school without the skills they need.

Catherine Isaac says it is wrong to propose that limiting the concept in such ways could have improved the focus on helping disadvantaged children.

North Shore students have been banned from hugging during school hours because too many of them were consistently arriving late to their classes.

Swotting for NCEA exams has been made easier with the very device parents and teachers hold as the enemy of study - teenagers' cellphones.

The Ministry of Education and the NZQA are being called on to release national school statistics at the same time as students get their marks back.

Two co-educational secondary schools in Dunedin plan to cut teacher numbers as the fall in school-age children starts to affect the secondary sector.