Places at many popular universities will be restricted next year to students who gain top marks at high school.

Three-quarters of teachers are feeling unprepared and rushed as they work to implement national standards, a survey has found.

Auckland rugby bosses have compiled Ten Commandments for schoolboy rugby matches in a bid to stop unruly parents and others from sideline rants.

A university lecturer has embraced Wikipedia as part of her teaching after initially shunning the online encyclopedia.

Members of a school 1st XV with a booze "culture" were left to drink unsupervised for three hours in London on the night a teen sleepwalked to his death.

Sam Tommas' hopes were dashed two games into the season when he was told he could not play rugby for another school.

Two schoolgirl rugby teams have been suspended after a brawl in which players were joined by spectators and reserves rushing in from the sideline.

Parents of King's College students have devised a plan to allow alcohol at their children's after-ball party - but the school says it is keeping right out of the matter.

Parents of a student at Rangitoto College, which cancelled its school balls this year because of a boozy party after last year's, are organising two private balls.

A Gisborne school community is reeling from the tragic loss of a student, after an 11-year-old died in a freak accident on Wednesday night.