The Government is looking to fund schools according to the progress their pupils make, the Education Minister has revealed.

The distraught parents of an infant who needed hospital treatment after being repeatedly bitten by a 2-year-old boy at a preschool.

I can still remember the freedom that came with being given my first bike.

Brett Lee has worked as a senior detective in the Queensland police charged with combating online paedophilia.

Schools are under pressure to cope with the catch-up needed for the estimated 73,500 children who miss school each day.

A principal and her husband siphoned off more than $30,000 from a decile one school in South Auckland and splashed out on themselves.

There will be less chance of dodgy teachers resurfacing at other schools under legislation to be introduced in Parliament today, Education Minister Hekia Parata says.

The Greens want to build up to $200m in cycle lanes and walkways around schools if they are in govt, and funding would be redirected from "low-value" projects such as the Holiday Highway north of Auckland.

Australia's teenagers are increasingly becoming trapped in a culture of booze, drugs and gambling.

Steven Joyce has made himself into the Minister for All Things Large & Little. It seems that no sector of the economy is safe from his reforming zeal, writes Tim Hazledine.

A recent report in the Herald points out that New Zealand universities have slipped down considerably in the most recent Times Higher Education rankings of universities.

Those inane selfies and comments on our social media sites will live on long after we're dead, says a visiting academic - but it'll be a valuable historical record.

The $1.26 million seismic upgrade of Diocesan School for Girls' old chapel will be finished around mid-May.

Architecture students have imagined how Auckland will look sporting a new super-brothel, and Wellington's future if sea levels rise.

The case of a 14-year-old with Asperger's syndrome excluded from his school has highlighted that teachers are not being taught how to deal with autistic students.

In an ideal world, parents would teach their children respectful attitudes to sex. In reality, that is not always happening.

Auckland Uni is at risk of slipping from a "storehouse of knowledge to a foreign warehouse" as it is increasingly catering for international students at the potential expense of NZers, says Shane Jones.

Respectful attitudes to sex would become a core part of sex education in schools under an overhaul recommended to the Govt.

When dental hygienist Cynthia Wallbridge read in the Herald that 40 per cent of New Zealand 5-year-olds have tooth decay, she was dismayed.

It was during his time in Auckland that Dr William Tan says he "blossomed" as a long-distance wheelchair athlete, breaking numerous national records.

More investment needs to go into the country's universities if they're to move higher up a list ranking the world's institutions, the head of Auckland University says.

'Are we going to open the gates for 12-year-olds to sue for an Xbox?' A New Jersey judge has ruled against a teen who tried to sue her parents over uni fees.

Building stronger links with industry to enable students to leave university with skills employers want will be a focus of a new tertiary education strategy announced today.

An 18-year-old US student is allegedly suing her parents for refusing to pay for her college education.

Aspiring teachers should be trained mostly at schools instead of university to help get the best and brightest in front of classrooms, a report argues.

Religious instruction policies will not be altered, despite some schools making changes after complaints from parents, the Ministry of Education says.