Diverse population spurs students to learn other nations' languages.

Teacher went to a funeral not realising she had left a 4-year-old girl in the van.

COMMENT: From a national perspective, our financial ignorance is damaging.

Joy and Graeme Atkinson have learned that kindness goes a long way.

27% of childcare workers would not send their own children to the centre they work at.

At this school, kids learn by interacting with nature.

COMMENT: Teaching needs to offer paid apprenticeship training.

Desperate measures to lure former teachers back as new survey finds unfilled vacancies.

OPINION: Our education is too important to be affected by fads and competing ideologies.

Teacher trainees will need better literacy and maths, and eventually postgraduate degrees

Over 1300 people signed petition against turning Pt Chevalier Kindergarten into a daycare.

National Standards have not stopped the reading slide, and may have accelerated it.

Charlotte Fischer says her daughter Kaya has become a passionate reader thanks to Speld.

Former English teacher has swapped the classroom for the stars.

Reg Korau failed to disclose driving convictions and drove school van for personal use.

She did it "because kids get so bored with learning about the basic stuff".

Level 1 students would have had to know a formula teachers say isn't taught until Level 2.

Experts say questions in the Level 1 maths exam were taken from the Level 2 curriculum

Auckland kindergartens' shift to all-day care is now in doubt as their CEO quits.

COMMENT: Without National Standards children can be assessed on wider criteria.

Many teachers are beginning to doubt the value of homework, a new survey has found.

National Standards will go and NCEA is also up for review by the new Labour-led Government

Education Minister Chris Hipkins plans a pre-Christmas package to tackle teacher shortages

Almost 200 schools in deprived parts of NZ have on-site health clinics. We visit one.

Waimate High School teacher censured for taking students on kayaks without lifejackets.

Kiwi students are trialling tests to measure their "21st century skills" such as tenacity.

Auckland's primary teacher shortage has hit a new record with 287 vacancies.

A principal has been censured for showing up without an invitation - once at 2am.

The teacher performed sex act on the 15-year-old as 'a birthday treat'.

'We need to be sure that this is not just a dangerous experiment', teacher says.