Columnist Kerre Woodham finds herself in two minds about the teachers' strike.

Michele Hewitson speaks to the man at the helm of Auckland's most traditional private school for boys, King's College.

Stalled negotiations between teachers and the Ministry of Education may even see students told to stay at home.

Striking teachers around the country took their protests to the street today.

More than 2000 secondary teachers have marched down Auckland's Queen St to rally for better pay today.

A legal loophole has allowed an unregistered teacher back in the classroom after having sex with a 16-year-old student.

Some 1200 Canterbury school children will not be able to return to their schools for weeks.

Looking back at interior design helps inform today's choices, says visiting lecturer Stephen Taylor.

Standing on snakes and having trees fall on him are all in a day's work for the archaeologist who's been called Auckland's Indiana Jones.

Secondary teachers' plans to go on strike next month show they disconnected from the real world, Prime Minister John Key says.

A West Auckland principal is taking a zero-tolerance attitude to unruly students at his new school - and winning hearts and minds in the process.

The country's Lions Clubs have struck a deal with the Reserve Bank to get the full value of defunct NZ coins, for charity.

Just over a quarter of teachers have limited or no understanding of how national standards work, despite the new system being introduced in primary and intermediate schools.

Swim coach Scott Talbot is destiny's child. His mum and dad were top swimmers and then top coaches. So, as Suzanne McFadden finds, it was almost inevitable the former Olympic swimmer would become a coach too.

"Expert practitioners" will work with schools to lift achievement, but a teachers' union is sceptical of the government's announcement.