Education Minister Anne Tolley has told principals they should stop talking to the media and focus on implementing the controversial national standards.

Staff at Kerikeri High School fear students' mid-year exams and assignments may have been lost in a suspicious fire.

Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.

Quick-thinking staff are being praised after a knife was pulled during an altercation at a Hamilton school this morning.

The parents of a King's College student who died in his sleep in February have left a heartfelt message to the mother of another boy who died this week.

Students from top Auckland school King's College are in a "state of disbelief" after the death of a third student since February.

Parents of students at a top Catholic girls' school are organising an after-ball party with alcohol - despite police warnings.

Manukau's liquor licensing agency is drawing up a list of school ball dates, and will send inspectors to follow buses to after-ball parties.

A party consultant is telling high school students how they can get away with taking booze to after-ball parties.

A high school after-ball party with a van-load of alcohol was busted by police and liquor licensing inspectors in an early morning raid today.

Police are praising Hamilton Girls' High School's emergency procedures after a girl threatened other students with a knife late this morning.