Taking students back to their roots has proven to be a winning ingredient at Hamilton Boys' High.

A little over six years ago, Selwyn College in Auckland was struggling.

Kwasi Enin, 17, the son of immigrant nurses from Ghana, has become the first person to be accepted to all eight Ivy League universities.

The headmaster turned up the other day with the local MP. I was sitting down the back of the staffroom.

The Government has introduced into Parliament legislation that will significantly threaten the autonomy and international reputation of our universities, writes Stuart McCutcheon.

Efforts to ensure all Kiwi kids can access early childhood education are "way ahead" of a similar American push, says the US Secretary of Education.

Children are being moulded into desired citizens at preschool through government-funded literature focusing on emotions, says an award-winning thesis.

If proof was ever needed that forecast growth in Auckland's population will present challenges, it is to be found in the pressure on school rolls.

Microsoft is sponsoring Kiwi schools to train up the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg — but some teachers are uncomfortable with big corporates guiding the curriculum.

Two key players in the $90k Ernst & Young review of Te Kohanga Reo National Trust have contradictory views about what the terms of reference allowed the review to do.

Twin brothers Maui and Mihaka Hohua say they got into carpentry to repair their Kawhia home which needs a bit done to it.

A $200,000 scholarship to study music at Cambridge University is a dream come true for student Paul Newton-Jackson.

Schools in poorer communities are shrinking as local families abandon them for those in wealthier suburbs.

Labour leader David Cunliffe yesterday welcomed a move by the Kohanga Reo National Trust to revamp its governance structure as a step towards regaining public confidence.

Sometimes, scandal and the game of league appear to be inextricably linked. But now the rugby union is checking to see if it has a problem.

Radical measures are on the cards to cope with a huge increase in the number of school-age children in Auckland as already full schools struggle to cope.

One of New Zealand's first charter schools is urgently searching for teachers and has turned to outside help for lessons just over a month after opening its doors.

An Auckland high school which excluded a student with Asperger's after a dispute with a teacher is appealing against a judge's ruling to quash the expulsion.

Developers of a new reading application claim that most people can easily double or triple their reading speed without any special training, writes Sally Andrews.

A New Jersey high school cheerleader who sued her parents for child support and tuition has agreed to dismiss her lawsuit.

More Pacific and Maori students are doing better in the classroom - leaving high school with higher qualifications and better options in life.

Tyler McCarthy knows that in order to get to where he wants to be one day, he has to work hard now.

When social sciences teacher Nigel Bassett moved into his new classroom he chose not to have a desk.

Nearly one in five parents have taken their child out of school in order to go on an overseas holiday, according to a new survey.

A charitable group is aiming to give away a million financial literacy work books to New Zealand students by 2020 to try to improve young people's wealth creation skills.

The Labour Party says Education Minister Hekia Parata's consideration of performance funding in schools could lead to the most radical shakeup of education in a generation.