Holly Stewart is the embodiment of Selwyn College's tennis programme - young and on the rise.

The threat of social rejection to be the most widespread and potent form of stress for human beings. Deborah Hill Cone writes of trying to overcome this kind of killer shame.

It is a question that keeps some parents awake at night. Should children be allowed to take mobile phones to school?

Bars are increasingly turning to social media to attract young punters, including with Facebook notifications when they're near a pub, new research shows.

High schools are warning students off an anonymous messaging app described as a "virtual bathroom wall".

Taifeni Latu leads a simple sporting life. It's volleyball in the summer and league in the winter. So to say the Year 12 student at One Tree Hill College juggles the two is not quite accurate.

A Northland teacher convicted of sexually abusing two girls and physically abusing six children placed in his care by Child Youth and Family has had an appeal against his conviction dismissed.

Eight years ago, a new primary and secondary school curriculum spoke glowingly of the benefits of knowing another language.

The recently dubbed high-tech capital of New Zealand, Wellington, is hosting free coding courses at libraries around the region this week to promote coding in schools.

Gymnast Christina Woodcock is determined to be a superstar.

Two teenagers who robbed a Mr Whippy owner at gunpoint in Auckland remain on the run, police say.

Stereotypical pom-poms are binned for aerial acrobatics as the Team New Zealand Cheerleaders prepare to defend a 2014 title at the world championships in Florida this month.

Two youths who robbed a Mr Whippy owner at gunpoint in Auckland yesterday are still on the loose.

Aidan Smith will join 24 other young Kiwi youth ambassadors travelling with the New Zealand Defence Force to Gallipoli for the centenary of the Anzac landings.

An 11-year-old boy took two friends on a joyride through rural Auckland suburbs in his parents' car for up to an hour before crashing into a truck yesterday.

An Auckland teen has made a "dream come true" and will be heading to one of the world's top universities on a scholarship worth $100,000.

An Auckland teen has ticked off another milestone on her bucket list.

The Canterbury school at the centre of a controversy around two pupils who were banned from rowing at the Maadi Cup says the board of trustees supports the ban.

When teenagers complain they are not understood, they are struggling to understand their own impulses and obsessions. They may find some answers in neuroscience.

We make assumptions about people all the time, and people particularly love to attach myths to 20-somethings, writes Verity Johnson.

Teaching war dances and chants from the old island ways comes naturally to a family who have been involved in the Auckland Secondary Schools' PolyFest for decades.

In 2012, Liron Rosin was 8 when he was diagnosed with an inoperable liver cancer rare in children.

Police investigating the actions of a group of youths as young as 10 who were arrested over violent attacks in central Auckland will be 'looking hard' at their parents.

Police have apprehended a raft of young people, aged between 10 and 17 years, over two alleged violent attacks in central Auckland in the weekend.

Cancer boredom-buster Gabby Devine is celebrating her 13th birthday today by giving presents to 100 fellow child cancer patients in hospitals around the country.

A Facebook page has been set up for children to post videos of schoolyard fights and brag about their violence. Police have contacted the site to have the page taken down.