A childhood worker remains registered as a teacher despite pleading guilty to importing methamphetamine.

Small parties do not get much credit for the occasional policy they are able to put into practice.

Children's reading ability is held back by a one-size-fits-all approach at school, an expert has warned.

A major law change which will introduce compulsory security screening of up to 376,000 people working with children has been unanimously backed in Parliament.

Five organisations in Northland and Auckland successfully applied to run New Zealand's first state-funded, privately run schools.

The Government has announced the first successful applicants for charter schools in New Zealand, all of them in Northland and Auckland.

As the Minister of Education who was responsible for the introduction of the national curriculum, I was very interested to read the article by Elizabeth Rata.

A teacher convicted of defrauding her school's rowing club of more than $40,000 has been allowed to keep her professional registration.

Thanks to the internet, everyone can now get a free education at the world's top tertiary institutions. Does this mean the end for higher learning or a new beginning?

University students will start to sit exams online from their own home or office under a remote monitoring system being tested this year by Massey University.

Four schools in some of the worst quake-damaged areas of Christchurch will be closed down and replaced by one super-school, Education Minister Hekia Parata announced today.

Five schoolgirl cyclists injured in a collision with a van north of Hamilton yesterday are at home recovering.

Five top schoolgirl cyclists and their coach, hurt when a car collided with them on a rural Waikato road, have now been discharged from hospital.

All of the New Zealand universities to feature in the QS World University Rankings have seen a drop in their placing this year, with the exception of Lincoln University which made the list for the first time.

An 11-year-old put Fonterra's light-proof milk bottles to the test.

The predator of Pamapuria, James Parker, has been allowed to remain a registered teacher.

New Zealand's school curriculum has been hollowed out of knowledge as academic learning is increasingly abandoned for a misguided focus on skills and the process of learning, an academic claims.

One of the great puzzles in education today is what has happened to knowledge, says education expert Elizabeth Rata.

Kiwi technology firm Booktrack is seeking to "ride the self-publishing wave" and has worked with Google to launch a web-based studio where users can add their own soundtrack to novels, short stories or even blog posts.

A delay in getting at-risk youth back into education can have life-long consequences, education experts say.

A teen has been left in limbo without education for 305 school days as new figures spark concerns that at-risk pupils are falling through the cracks.

Prime Minister John Key said yesterday that the School Journal would continue despite the decision to close the state-owned enterprise that produced it.

The Education Minister has defended national standards despite an independent report which found teachers get them right only 60 per cent of the time.

A homegrown child sponsorship scheme has helped an 11-year-old Auckland boy on the first steps to becoming a star league player.