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Schools tackle zone cheats

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

John Roughan: Principles lost in a grammar 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?

Teacher's depravity lost in system

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

Fall in reading standards in many regions

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.

College backs down on zoning plan

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.

Poll backs plan for better teachers

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

Few non-Maori pick language for study at secondary school

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

New zone: Elite school battle heats up

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.

Editorial: Judge right to tell school it was out of line

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.

NCEA report not up to the job

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

CCTV plan to beat bullies

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

Keeping NZ schools up-to-date

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?

Rocky start for charter school

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

Verity Johnson: 'All boys, no girls' fails the gender exam

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

School health little more than band aid

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' schools win in study

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.