Student Tae Won Chung stabbed his teacher after being goaded about his fear of North Korea and returning home to military training, a court hears.

Foreign students could study in NZ primary schools without the need for a legal guardian if pastoral care rules are relaxed.

An overdue law reform will remove the ability for criminal cowboys to set up a private school.

Greater powers are needed to censure private schools which are not up to scratch, the Law Commission has recommended.

University vice-chancellors have been speaking to the qualifications authority about whether University Entrance standards are too low.

Next Top Model contestant Ruby Higgins will emerge from mountains of school exam work to take up a television cameo.

South Island mayors have been quick to say "no thanks" to the prospect of the Undie 500 student rally moving to their neck of the woods.

Only 2 per cent of high schools are ready for an extensive overhaul of the national curriculum in five months, a report says.

The University of Otago says it will come down hard on students whose "loutish behaviour" at the weekend threatened its reputation.

Police have charged 67 people following the riots in Dunedin over the weekend as the Undie 500 event came to town.

The mayor of Dunedin wants students involved in weekend riots to be punished without regard for their future careers.

Police ran out of pepper spray against an angry mob of around 600 during more ugly Undie 500 related scenes last night.

More than 600 people pelted officers with bottles, bricks and bicycle parts in North Dunedin last night, with concerns for more trouble tonight.