Students taking part in a sports technology course at an Auckland high school will attend the training sessions of top teams.

The scrapping of nearly one million book loans to schools each year will let down students who are not prepared for digital alternatives, the Labour Party says.

Parents of children with HIV are under no legal obligations to inform their child's school - despite several schools having a policy insisting that they do.

Auckland school children on a winning streak may have to play for the opposition if they're beating them by too many points.

A NZ student who took only two years of art classes has received the best subject marks in the world in the Cambridge International Examinations.

Education Minister Hekia Parata has released figures for the first time showing iwi by iwi how Maori children do in early childhood education, primary school and NCEA.

A young web designer and his former teacher have shot to the top of the class with an education app so popular it's gaining 1000 downloads a week.

Last year, two notable New Zealand economists warned of dire consequences if our regional economies were allowed to run down from "benign neglect".

New Zealand's bullying problem may be going unchecked because schools do not want to share their problems nationwide.

Speaking to an overseas audience is usually a great opportunity to sum up what's happening in your own backyard, writes Martin Thrupp.

Coverage of the Fijian elections by three New Zealand postgraduate student journalists has been awarded a top prize at the annual Ossie Awards.

From the moment today's school examination system was conceived in the 1980s there were fears that standards would be "dumbed down".

Nearly four in five Auckland secondary schools now ask or permit students to bring a device such as a laptop or tablet - potentially adding hundreds of dollars to back-to-school costs.

Settling into a routine as soon as possible is one of the best ways to give your child a good start to school, a leading principal says.

Back to school costs hurt. The pain is as much to my principles as my wallet and this time of year always gets me a bit hot under the collar.

Ask a 15-year-old what makes his generation different from the ones before, and he'll give you a straight answer: "Anything that's not digital is boring."

A big drop in the number of students able to study at tertiary level has prompted calls for the NZQA to review new University Entrance requirements.

In the third of our five-part Future Auckland series, we aim to stimulate debate.

New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters has criticised the number of foreign students choosing to study here.

Auckland is a great place - but it can be even better. In the second of our five-part Future Auckland series we aim to stimulate debate. Teuila Fuatai reports.

Parents could save hundreds of thousands of dollars by skipping houses in elite school zones and paying to privately educate their kids elsewhere instead.

Most teachers and their unions don't seem to understand the rationale behind charter schools, writes Peter Lyons.

International student numbers have bounced back after years of decline, driving the value of the country's fifth largest export industry to $2.85 billion, says a report by Education New Zealand.

Some parents are being pushed into debt as a result of increased demands to shell out for digital devices for their children's schoolwork.

Teenager who took a year off school to nurse gravely ill mother makes it into Oxford University. But she wasn't able tell her mother the good news.

Parents have been warned about buying unnecessary add-ons as retailers take advantage of the requirement of many schools for students to have a laptop or tablet.

The cost of a 'free' education in NZ is $35,000 - and that's raised concerns some children won't return to school next week because their families can't afford it.

The rising cost of tertiary fees is reflected in the latest student loan borrowings figures released yesterday by Statistics New Zealand.

The value of uniforms has been hotly debated since at least since I was wearing the blue tunic required by Hastings Girls' High. Wearing a uniform didn't do me any harm.