Auckland schools are hiring teachers from smaller towns and overseas to meet demand.

A huge overseas recruitment drive will help in schools this year but many still have gaps.

Students switching from BA and BCom degrees to more job-rich fields such as IT.

Alleged tripping is seen as a test of new restraint guidelines issued to schools in 2016

NZQA keeps release time under wraps to prevent repeat of website crash.

Teachers now have to have better English than doctoral students at NZ universities.

Bill would require listing at least 10 languages as "national priority languages".

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.

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.

Teachers' union concerned after teacher censured for stopping boys hurting each other.

Preschool teacher censured despite discharge without conviction for assaulting a relative.

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.

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

COMMENT: The past is full of missed educational opportunities, writes Matt Heath.

School principals say Christmas will be too late to act on teacher shortages for 2018.

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.

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

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