Teacher Peter Lyons says he's finally learned a valuable lesson - life isn't fair, so he explains why he's decided to vote the right way this election.

Despite the building tension surrounding the election, the first major debate between party representatives on technology and innovation remained relatively civil.

New Zealand's expanding building industry has signed up its 9000th apprentice - but says it is running out of young people to fill the demand for more.

A NZ principal, due take the helm of one of the UK's most prestigious schools, will have to return home to defend allegations he assaulted his ex-wife.

Prime Minister John Key says National is likely to outline "a broad sense" of the conditions needed for tax cuts before the election, but no specific details.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is in negotiation in the hope of opening more charter schools next year, possibly allowing tertiary institutions to run them.

A top Auckland private school has investigated allegations of racist remarks including the word n***** made by a student during a football match last weekend.

Luxurious holidays in the south of France or Rarotonga and an internship in New York are among the prizes on offer at an extravagant school fundraiser.

The rejection of the Government's flagship education policy by primary school teachers and principals was "sadly predictable" in an election year, according to Prime Minister John Key.

Primary school teachers and principals have voted overwhelmingly to reject the Government's flagship education policy.

How to improve what goes on in our schools has become a key election-year argument.

It was school meets Hell's Kitchen as top culinary students from around the country battled it out in Auckland yesterday.

The Greens say their policy of raising the top tax rate to generate close to $1b to tackle child poverty was not about penalising the rich but sharing the benefits.

Top model Grace Barcelos Owen graduated last week through AUT as a fully registered psychologist.

Kiwi school kids interested in computer programming are being forced to teach themselves as the education system fails to keep pace.

Destiny Church wants its private school to become part of the state system, which would earn it a large boost in taxpayer funding.

Hundreds of teachers will take a break from the classroom today to visit the type of workplaces that their students could end up in.

'You only live once - so do what you love." While hardly rocket science, the advice was just as important as anything else one of our most accomplished chemists.

Peter Calder writes: Waikowhai Primary School in Mt Roskill is one of 15 schools where the seven-week course called Kiwi Kids has been run over the past eight years.

Auckland will get nine new schools after the Govt announced a $350m funding boost in an effort to get ahead of the city's surging population.

An education-themed political meeting threatened to boil over as teachers took aim at Education Minister Hekia Parata and unloaded their long list of complaints about their schools, funding and heavy workload.

'Do you want to leave now?' asked the host of last night's Helensville debate of Prime Minister John Key - who came closest to being kicked out.

New Zealanders are uploading their lecture notes to a website that sells them on to other students and returns a share of the profit to the author.

Mountaineer Graeme Dingle's youth charity is branching out from its original outdoors focus to try to connect school-leavers with employers and jobs.

For the first time, US public schools are projected this northern autumn to have more minority students than non-Hispanic whites.

Schools are being made to re-enrol students they had kicked out for bad behaviour including carrying weapons, physical assaults and drug use.

Her own boy has done okay - but over a 35-year teaching career Margaret McCaw has helped in the development of hundreds of other children.

Alarming numbers of secondary students are "catastrophic spellers", a quarter getting nearly every word wrong in a test to gauge word skills, a new study has found.