A school which demoted a teacher for a series of incidents, including throwing a tennis ball at a student, overstepped the mark, the ERA rules.

Parents on remote Stewart Island say the bureaucrats are not making their quest for an early childhood teacher any easier.

A Hastings primary school teacher facing 14 charges of assaulting pupils has been remanded for trial.

Children who learn to read at age five are unlikely to be better readers than children who learn to read at seven, according to new research.

Education Minister Anne Tolley has been accused of manufacturing a crisis for political gain over a damning report into basic teaching skills.

Hundreds of Auckland primary school principals want the introduction of national standards to be delayed so they can be tested.

Anne Tolley says she will sack the boards of primary schools which allow teachers to boycott national standards, saying they would be refusing to obey the law.

A system of new national educational standards to assess primary school students is doomed to fail, academics across New Zealand say.

A woman teacher, who had a baby with one of her 17-year-old students, has managed to hang on to her registration.

Leading New Zealand businesses are urging schools to teach crucial Asian culture and language classes.

A teacher at a top boys' school has been cleared after she was suspended for being wrongly accused of appearing on a sex tape.