There are advantages in having a chest infection. For instance, I can get a husky 30s jazz singer drawl, without smoking my way to an early death before I can pay off my student debt.

Students at an Auckland high school had a first-hand look at life in the trenches this week.

A group of primary school children have solved a problem that our biggest bank couldn't solve - finding a way to let disabled people into its downtown Auckland branch.

A central Auckland school is to be transformed in a building project that could cost at least $50 million.

A high school teacher who had sex with her former student has been censured and banned from teaching by the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal.

A global charity will test children's eyes in low-income parts of New Zealand after an tests found 63 per cent of children at an Auckland primary school needed full examinations.

I look in the mirror and wonder how I managed to survive the torture and humiliation I faced when I was a teenager, writes Jesse Greenslade.

Learning the ukulele? Can’t remember what that song playing on the radio is? Trying to find the wine you liked at a party? There are apps for all that.

Adecile 10 Auckland school considered criminal charges after it uncovered a scam it says enabled out-of-zone families to fraudulently enrol children.

Kevin Fallon gets dismissed as a football coach at Mt Albert Grammar and it makes the national news.

Australian company Talent2 has been dumped from its own ill-starred Novopay teachers' payroll system.

A relief teacher sent photos of primary school pupils to a man he knew was seeking medical help for his sexual attraction to children.

Students are being kicked out of some of Auckland's most sought-after schools after officials ruled they were not genuinely living within zone.

A former principal and her husband who scammed $30,000 from a decile one school have abandoned their appeal after a judge told them they may be jailed.

Former All Whites coach Kevin Fallon says legal action is likely over his sacking from Mt Albert Grammar after 18 years, as his former players threaten a boycott.

Helping close achievement gaps in our classrooms will be a priority for a leading academic appointed to a major new science education role.

What goes through the minds of educational professionals when they see the lengths that property owners will go to remain in a prestigious school zone?

Failure to pass on information at school’s management level was critical to the overlooking of allegations made by students.

School students can forget trying to wriggle out of a part-time job - new research says it isn't all that bad.

The number of young school children achieving or bettering the national standard in reading and writing has fallen in many regions.

The number of young school children achieving or bettering the national standard in reading has fallen or flat-lined in half of the country's regions.

The Greens have unveiled a policy to extend 20 hours a week of free early childhood education to 2-year-olds.

Hostile feedback from residents in some of the country’s most expensive real estate has caused an emerging school to back away from including them in its new zone.

Only 4 per cent of non-Maori secondary school students are learning te reo Maori, the latest figures show.

New Zealanders would rather money was spent on improving teaching standards than on reducing class sizes, a Herald-DigiPoll survey reveals.

How open Kiwi students are to international cultures and opportunities could be measured as an important part of the school curriculum.