A shoplifting spree in Queenstown has concluded with four boys expelled from their Melbourne school.

Thousands have farewelled a teenage girl killed while driving with friends to pick up their school ball gowns.

Kristi-Rae Ruri-Gardiner was well known for her kind and giving nature and finally donated her organs.

A boy's death-defying plunge from the top storey of an apartment block was the latest in a string of serious incidents involving King's students.

A two-car crash which left five Rotorua Girls' High School students injured today has been "absolutely devastating", principal Annette Joyce says.

An Education Review Office survey of 229 schools found about 20pc had inadequate inclusive practices for special needs pupils.

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

Teachers who were sacked or quit over alarming conduct remained registered to teach on the official database that is supposed to warn parents and schools.

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 education sector has had to come up with more than half of the $1.9 billion to fund new education initiatives over the next four years.

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.