As teachers reject the Govt's latest pay offer, the Education Minister says they simply don't have the kind of money being asked for.

A new national service looks ready to start next year to make sure every 16 or 17-year-old ends up in work or training after leaving school.

Secondary school sex education lessons have certainly undergone a change over the years.

An international school run by the husband of disgraced former Act MP Donna Awatere Huata has gone into liquidation.

Fraser High School principal Virginia Crawford angers with truant speech. / Youtube

Columnist Kerre Woodham finds herself in two minds about the teachers' strike.

Michele Hewitson speaks to the man at the helm of Auckland's most traditional private school for boys, King's College.

Stalled negotiations between teachers and the Ministry of Education may even see students told to stay at home.

A NZ man who lost a ring 40 years ago in a US lake has had news that his treasured possession has been found.

The Government has announced details of legislation to be pushed through Parliament to help speed up the recovery process in quake-devastated Canterbury.

Several Christchurch hotels have slashed room rates in the wake of Christchurch's "horrendous" magnitude 7.1 quake, with one hotel chief saying everybody needed to "chip in".

Most Canterbury schools today reopened after the September 4 magnitude 7.1 earthquake, but aftershocks continue.

A drunk Auckland high school pupil was taken to hospital after falling over and knocking his head in a physical education class.

Some 1200 Canterbury school children will not be able to return to their schools for weeks.