The parents of a group of Maori and Pasifika students have signed over shared guardianship of their sons so they can live in zone for Auckland Grammar.

Airport charity will help 20 Mangere College students to do an outdoor pursuits course.

Auckland Council is paying $60.7 million for Auckland University's home for cricket and rugby.

This week, Fiapaipai Tanea-Sakuma proudly graduated as the only female Samoan student in her class.

A suspended school principal has failed in her bid to be reinstated in time to farewell children at their last school assembly of the year.

A teacher has had his registration cancelled after inviting a 12-year-old boy to sleep in his bed and admitting he is not "safe" with students.

A teacher was censured for calling students slag, loser and prick, mocking their names and making derogatory comments about their ethnicities.

NZ risks the loss of an "informed and thoughtful citizenry" if the benefits of an arts degree continue to be marginalised, the nation's largest arts faculty warns.

Kelsen Findlay remembers the sense of awe he and classmates had at the start of their degree that one of their peers had scored an internship at Saatchi & Saatchi, Auckland.

Auckland University's $1 billion decade-long property push is in full swing at Newmarket where many brewery structures, buildings and view-blocking fences have come down.

More students are seeking help from counsellors and guidance services - and a report has found many school services are struggling under pressure or simply not up to scratch.

The radical restructuring of Unitec's design and visual arts department has mystified many who took part in a quality assurance review of the school last year.

A radical new teaching model has sparked fears of creative decline at one of our most successful visual art schools.

A novel approach to reading has kids blogging and commenting online about what should happen next in books - and authors follow the instructions.

A student learning expert has suggested a top-level review of the schooling system after international testing showed 15-year-olds had slipped in maths, science and reading.

PISA envy is rife at the moment as we find NZ has slipped. This should be a shot of reality and force us not to be complacent with the status quo.

Kindergarten teachers around the country will protest today against ongoing cuts to funding in their sector.

Editorial: It is highly appropriate that NZ officials have been to Asia to identify the key points of the successful programmes there. But implementing their findings on what works will require political will.

Should we worry about our ranking? No, not per se, writes Dr Fiona Ell. Focusing on one number, one position in the race, who our neighbours on the list are is missing the point.

New international test results in reading, science and maths show that Australian education is going backwards - a declining trend that has been going on for the past decade, writes Dr Sue Thomson.

In the aftermath of the Roast Busters revelations, voices muttered that our schools aren't teaching sexual morality.

The gap between 15-year-old students who are excelling and those who are failing has widened despite the Govt's increased focus on the educational achievement "tail".

Education Minister Hekia Parata says New Zealand is doing everything right to reform the education system, in the wake of a fall in an international league table.

Auckland University team heads first research on giant mammals' ability to sense sound waves of prey.

New Zealand educational achievement has dropped significantly in the core subjects of science, maths and reading, according to a OECD report.