A UNICEF report clearly states that violence in all its forms can rob children's dignity, diminish their self-worth, and threaten their optimal development, writes Bernadette Saunders.

More than 300 high school students were absent across three schools during a random check - and police are concerned truants could be contributing to local crime.

An Auckland primary school has been cleared of sexual offending against 10 of his former students.

Act's sole MP David Seymour will meet John Key at Parliament today with a wishlist for a confidence and supply agreement, including for him to become a minister.

New Zealand university students are about to battle international competition to decide who has built and programmed the best robot.

Kawakawa Primary School principal Peter Witana has been dismissed after an investigation raised financial management questions.

The roof of a school's library entrance will be only the second public structure designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the Southern Hemisphere.

A group of Auckland primary pupils had a kick around with an All Blacks legend at Eden Park yesterday.

According to the University of Victoria, more than half of New Zealanders aged between 18 and 30 did not vote in the last general election.

The National Party wants to double the number of people studying engineering at university in a bid to get more graduates into jobs in the high-tech sector.

David Cunliffe faced a lecture theatre full of students at Waikato University and had smoko with workers at a Te Rapa factory.

Even teachers have to meet the dress standard under the ‘Grammar way’.

A major milestone for the country's oldest school will see some of its famous alumni meet up - and some keen discussion on what its future holds.

A near-unanimous vote has parents at St John's College supporting the school's "new hair rule" following the Lucan Battison case, but it could be challenged in court.

As the judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial was training to qualify, she changed her name from Matilda to Thokozile - the Zulu word meaning happy.

A scheme in which millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on sending students to private schools needs to be assessed to see if it is delivering results, an education union says.

Teen cannabis smokers are 60 per cent more likely to drop out of high school than their non-smoking peers, and are more likely to use other drugs and attempt suicide.

The Green Party would boost special education services in schools by $115 million if in government.

A multimillion-dollar business growth fund is set to begin investing in ambitious companies through a crowdfunding initiative.

The football coach who allowed a teenage girl to strip to her underwear on a busy street says he "completely and utterly" blames himself.

The Warriors have been drawn into an investigation into the use of tertiary education funding on the eve of the club's biggest game of the season.

As the Government runs the rule over the way our children learn, a US expert suggests change may be needed — but it should start at the top.

Fewer children starting school can speak in sentences, prompting an investigation by education chiefs.

An Auckland girls' school principal has apologised after one of her students stripped in public - and it's emerged another was involved in a similar scantily-clad dare.

Auckland girls school takes action after girl, aged 14 or 15, stripped as part of a "sports initiation".

A girl who appeared to be a student from a private Auckland all-girls school stripped down to her underwear in the middle of a busy Rotorua street.