Labour wants careers advice to be more professional.

Teacher admits serious misconduct after nine years of complaints.

An Auckland high school teacher has been found guilty of serious misconduct following a number of bullying incidents of students.

School principals uncertain about their right to discipline international students have asked the Ministry of Education to clear up confusion.

COMMENT: This week a student suggested her lecturer join her for sex in Bali. Jill Goldson explores when an offer for sex becomes harassment.

Careers New Zealand will be scrapped with its career advice role folded into the Tertiary Education Commission.

With a shortage of subject teachers causing concern, Lawrence Watt sits in on a college Maths class with an award-winning teacher

COMMENT: It was a brave move of NZ unis last week to admit that they are not attracting enough of the brightest graduates to train as teachers.

Mike takes a look at the case of a single parent who questioned whether it was really worth working if her wage was barely more than the benefit she would otherwise be on. Mike thinks it is.

We shouldn't just take it at as axiomatic that low decile means low achievement. What we need now is evidence. We need to work collegially and collectively across deciles, writes Barbara Ala'alatoa.

It is our education system, not the dyslexic child, that needs to be the focus of our attention. There is a better way, writes teacher Mark Brace.

Disadvantaged children are group's focus but critics say Teach First NZ's kids could be treated like guinea pigs.

Lawrence Watt goes back to the classroom to dispel some wide-held beliefs around what makes a good school

Schools are struggling to find maths and science teachers, while middle management jobs are going begging as senior staff retire.

A teacher has been struck off after failing to tell a day-care centre she had previously been accused of verbally and physically abusing children in her care.

Confucius is being credited for the growth in popularity of Mandarin learning at a top Auckland Catholic boys' school.

A proposed charge on criminal checks will hit poorer school communities hardest, a teacher union says.

A male teacher resigned after sending inappropriate late-night Facebook messages to a 13-year-old female student, telling her "you'll be a catch when you are older".

A decision to allow a former P addict and convicted methamphetamine smuggler back into the classroom has been slammed by the Early Childhood Council.

A former childcare worker and P addict caught smuggling methamphetamine into New Zealand has been cleared by her professional body to return to the classroom.

75: It was late in the day before New Zealand appointed war artists to document the conflict.

Teachers showering Kiwi kids with praise - and never allowing them to fail - are threatening to do more harm than good, a leading educationist says.

The average Kiwi teacher is a woman in her early fifties and she's facing a generation of kids who have grown up with Wi-Fi, the cloud and hand-held technology.

New Zealand's bullying problem may be going unchecked because schools do not want to share their problems nationwide.

Schools' latest stationery demands are making some parents mad enough to cry - especially the discovery that tissues are now listed among their children's essentials.

If teachers were unpaid, they would be reluctant to do the job and, in the end, children would be worse off, writes Jamie Whyte. Yet the same goes for those who supply the capital.

The Government would have us believe school teachers are just a pack of whiners, writes Dita De Boni. It is exhausting, relentless work, mentally and physically, and I for one am happy to admit I could never hack it.

He's 28 and a former mechanic - but had to go to jail to learn that it's useful to save some of your money.