A primary school with a long-running problem of rotten timber and faulty cladding is to be almost completely demolished.

Was it the heat, the heavy uniforms, or the presence of the star?

Two teenagers forced to take drug tests at their high school deserve apologies for their inappropriate and unfair treatment, say their parents.

Tertiary students who fail more than half their courses may lose their student loans as the Government moves to crack down on abuse.

Thieves broke into the home of a Kings College student who died in his sleep last week taking thousands of dollars worth of electronics, including a computer bearing his childhood photos.

Six school children are taken to hospital after a bus and another vehicle collided in the Auckland suburb of Mt Eden today.

New Zealand's once-yawning gap in student achievement between schools in rich and poor areas has closed by almost a third in the past five years.

Some of the country's brightest young minds have been named as the top performers in the 2009 Scholarship examinations.

The Government is taking aim at lazy students and courses with high dropout or failure rates in looming reforms in tertiary education.

A high school renowned for producing a string of Kiwi sporting stars has been accused of inappropriately drug-testing some students.