Does the experience of lecturing university undergraduates prepare teachers adequately to teach children and adolescents? Dr Peter Lind gives his view.

A teacher at a Christian school has admitted to an inappropriate relationship with a student - one of 11 teachers found guilty of serious misconduct last year.

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.

A handful of schools are holding out on releasing National Standards to the Minister of Education as the first round of data is made public.

The University of Auckland has confirmed its intention to buy the ex-Lion Breweries site in Newmarket.

Tuhoe plans to set up three charter schools and are negotiating with the Education Ministry on how they can do it on their own terms.

A higher birth rate and an ageing workforce mean hundreds of teachers could be needed to meet a staff shortage as school rolls surge over the next decade.

Failure starts before a child has even set foot in the classroom, writes Jim Traue.

Preschool pupils are teaching their teachers a thing or two with their grasp of new technology.