The Education Minister has defended national standards despite an independent report which found teachers get them right only 60 per cent of the time.

An ex-teacher has gained strong investor backing for his online start-up which helps people in China learn English through face-to-face lessons with Kiwi tutors.

After a horrid first year in action, the Novopay system is slowly improving.

Misbehaving teachers facing disciplinary action may soon lose their automatic name suppression - but the national kindergarten federation is warning that those in trouble could still use other ways to retain anonymity.

Secrecy rules protecting the names of errant teachers are headed for a shake-up in Parliament.

Editorial: The Teachers Council, the registration body that ought to speak with the authority of the New Zealand Law Society or Medical Association, never offers a view on educational issues.

Backers of a controversial scheme to fast-track trainee teachers into classrooms are claiming initial success, with all 16 inaugural graduates passing their first three months as teachers.

Many people assume that sending their child to a private school will boost their academic achievement, writes Judith Nowotarski. That assumption is wrong.

Our target is to double the effectiveness of teaching and learning in half the time and half the cost, writes Peter Mazany.

A teacher tried to hire a gang member to assault her principal because she was being hassled about lies she told to the school, a disciplinary hearing has found.

It is the consequence of decades of government indifference to education and will take at least a generation to fix, writes Peter Fenwick.