Today, Pita Sharples will carry out the first reading of the new Maori Language Bill 2014 in Parliament.

The curriculum in New Zealand schools is "compulsory" and nobody minds - until it is suggested that all New Zealand children should be given a grounding in te reo Maori.

Aserial entrepreneur with a geeky streak is bringing technology into the classroom with her award-winning start-up.

A refugee from Afghanistan who arrived in the country without being able to speak a word of English came third in a spelling bee just five years after arriving and is now studying political science.

As another school success story results in a new school zone, parents fear it'll end in changes to a zone so elite it can add 20 per cent to property prices.

An arch-conservative appointed to rid Australia's national curriculum of supposed left-wing bias has backed the use of corporal punishment in schools.

All New Zealand schoolchildren would learn Maori under Labour's long-term plan for te reo, but it appears the party is loath to give the policy a high profile.

An Auckland school will have a zone for the first time after a remarkable turnaround in its results and reputation.

For Labour, size matters - particularly when it comes to education, writes Kerre McIvor.

100 low-income families were asked what they needed to get out of poverty. Here are their answers.

New Zealand teens are more money savvy than young people in other developed nations, according to a new report.

Grace Eriksen, 18, is in her first year of university and reaping the rewards of three years of saving.

For years scientists thought they knew what caused the hole in the ozone layer but now it appears they could have been wrong.

About every 18 months the issue of vaccinations (or, more specifically, the issue of not having your children vaccinated) becomes especially newsworthy.

One thing I believe all students have in common is that we want to walk out university with a career especially because being a student these days is a significant investment.

The holidays have just begun and many of us are already counting down the days until schools reopen. Here are five ways to be an awesome parent these holidays.

Labour has turned it guns on one of areas it believes National is most vulnerable in the lead up to the election.

Labour will fund an extra 2000 teachers under its policy to reduce primary class sizes to 26 students by 2016 - a step expected to cost $350m over the next three years.

In Degree Mills, Ezell and Bear cite a congressional committee's estimate from 1986 that there were more than 5,000 fake doctors practising in the U.S. The figure must be several times that by now.

Labour's new teaching policies are response to National's proposal to pay good teachers and principals more and require them to work with others.

Editorial: The Labour Party has always struggled with the concept of "voluntary" school donations.

Teen mum Nganoo Joseph hopes to graduate with a level 4 certificate in travel and tourism this year - and credits an All Black's sister with steering her to success.

Labour's plan to help struggling parents by tackling school donations is a political ploy- but at least it recognises the 'voluntary' nonsense, one principal says.

A parent has taken concerns about religious teaching to the Human Rights Commission in the latest effort to remove the lessons from state school time.

Community Spirit category: When high school teacher Roshni Gounder came down with a sudden illness, many people expected her to give up her job.

Labour wants to end "voluntary" school donations by offering a grants of $100 per student to schools that stop asking parents to fund "day to day" spending.