New Zealand's school curriculum has been hollowed out of knowledge as academic learning is increasingly abandoned for a misguided focus on skills and the process of learning, an academic claims.

Youth are finding the story they were told about hard work is not quite true, writes Cathy Bi.

A delay in getting at-risk youth back into education can have life-long consequences, education experts say.

A teen has been left in limbo without education for 305 school days as new figures spark concerns that at-risk pupils are falling through the cracks.

Ski workers set off explosives on Mt Hutt to prevent avalanches and clear the way for hundreds of stranded people to get off the mountain early this morning.

The battle between the two Kiwi teams is shaping as an interesting sub-plot to the Red Bull Youth America's Cup.

Bumpy footpaths, traffic jams and shabby buses were some of the issues raised by school pupils with Auckland Mayor Len Brown yesterday.

A party organised by parents from one of New Zealand's top schools ended with security guards calling police to control fighting.

A 5-year-old boy battling for his life after an alleged hit and run in Flaxmere has taken "a turn for the worse" in Starship children's hospital.

Robots have a maths and science lesson in store for Elisabeth Easther.

Violence is the new "sexy" for teenage girls, according to one expert who advises parents and teachers on how to stamp out the increasingly aggressive behaviour.

A schoolboy rugby player who suffered a serious head injury during a first XV match is due to be brought out of his induced coma today.

A former Kiwis league international and a 13-year-old Glen Innes girl both kept quiet at first about their sore throats - and now regret it.

A 17-year-old 1st XV rugby player remained in a coma late last night but the bleeding on his brain had stopped and friends and family were hoping for a recovery.

Some of Auckland's biggest employers have signed up to a scheme aimed at finding work for the region's 25,000 unemployed young people.

It feels to me like there's a global movement being run by a secret society intent on mind-controlling our children, writes Rhys Darby.

Editorial: Every human activity carries a degree of risk. But that is what provides the challenge - and the reward.

A more challenging type of playground is here to stay, despite one local body temporarily closing a slide last week after children sustained bruising.

Danielle Wright rounds up some bargain family fun in the great outdoors.

Dionne Christian explores some of the newer attractions in Auckland CBD's Metro Centre.

Deliberate self-harming is reaching epidemic levels among Kiwi teenagers - but the teens say it has become "almost fashionable".

Students at one Auckland high school are not convinced drinking, smoking and drugs are as rare as an Auckland University survey suggests.