A highly regarded teacher has been struck off after admitting to a sexual relationship with a student in the 1970s.

Students who broke down in tears during a maths exam that has been deemed too difficult should have been able to answer the questions, experts say.

Takapuna Grammar student Maia Brown said she could hear other students crying in the exam hall as they took the NCEA maths test.

WATCH: NZ Herald Focus host and broadcaster Tristram Clayton attempts the controversial NZQA paper, but is left broken.

Watch: NZ Herald Focus host and broadcaster Tristram Clayton attempts the controversial NZQA paper, but is left broken.

Northland has the highest rate of student transience in the country, with hundreds of pupils moving schools multiple times each year. Kaitaia

Teachers have slammed a Year 11 maths exam that has been deemed "far too difficult'' for students and which reduced some to tears in the exam room.

eachers have slammed a Year 11 maths exam that has been deemed "far too difficult'' for students and which reduced some to tears in

An expatriate Kiwi writer who has lived in half a dozen countries says New Zealand culture is uniquely hostile towards women. Katherine

The Herald profiles the Education Minister who is overseeing the biggest overhaul of the schooling sector in nearly 30 years.

Parents react after investigation announced into why new entrants are turning up to school without basic oral skills

Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic has announced Associate Professor Dr Leon de Wet Fourie as the new chief executive. WBoPP council

Education Minister Hekia Parata is overseeing the biggest revamp of NZ's education system in nearly 30 years - with some of the reforms highly controversial.

EXCLUSIVE: Some children are starting school without the ability to speak in sentences, sparking a government investigation.

Jacinda Duffy with her 5-year-old son James, who has just started school, talking about a proposal to have new entrants start at the beginning of a term rather than on their fifth birthday.

Here are six factors that will give your children the best chance of fulfilling their dreams and ambitions.

Prestigious scholarship aids palliative care studies

A promise of sex is proving costly for some international students.

On her first day with a new class, this teacher decided to rap through the lesson, tweaking the likes of Drake's Hotline Bling to help educate her kids.

Asians have the highest abortion rates and ratio among all ethnic groups in New Zealand.

COMMENT: Funding for schools should be focused on what matters most: education.

A reef offshore from Patea is not being explored in order to find life forms that seabed mining could endanger - but that may be one

Lincoln University's vice-chancellor Professor Robin Pollard has refused to elaborate on why he said the university would be "dead" in a year.

Teachers in Auckland this week held the first of 50 planned stopwork meetings around the country over a Government proposal called a "global budget".

Rangitoto College says the decision to not increase school operations grants to match inflation next year, in favour of targeting money to "at risk" students, will cost it $85,000.

Waitoki School in rural North Auckland is trying a new approach to boost its attendance levels - they've introduced a lamb daycare so the kids are never too far away for feeding time!

A funding proposal that has been criticised by unions as "bulk funding" has been rejected by an advisory group set-up by Education Minister Hekia Parata.

Schools will today learn how much extra funding they will get as a result of having students "at risk" of educational underachievement enrolled.