Primary school students spend nearly an hour each night doing homework, a national survey says, but some parents and teachers question the value of after-school study.

Students from poor backgrounds could have places reserved for them at the country's largest university in a shake-up of admissions currently targeted according to ethnicity.

A new OECD report makes grim reading for tertiary graduates - they can expect to earn far less than those in other developed countries.

Parents should have the option to drop their 4-year-old off at school, says a principal who is set to open a preschool on his school's grounds.

Acting Secretary for Education Peter Hughes has been appointed head of the Ministry of Education.

Canterbury schools and early childhood centres have been praised in a report for how they dealt with the Canterbury earthquakes.

Animated short film Shelved, which was created by students at Auckland's Media Design School, has won four different awards in two American competitions.

Schools are bracing for the biggest changes to their funding in seven years, as officials measure how rich or poor their pupils' families are.

Rodney Hide is an anti-theist. He just doesn't believe in God. He is pleased there isn't one.

A pay deal has been signed between the union representing primary and intermediate teachers and the Govt to introduce an allowance for 800 expert teachers worth $4 million.

Mainland Chinese say they intend to study abroad in far greater numbers.

Two New Zealand universities have been named in the top 100 tertiary institutions younger than 50-years-old.

Teachers and principals plan to boycott a $6 million computerised assessment device which would be compulsory for every primary student in 2015 as part of National Standards.

Sex education is promoting sexual behaviour among young people and not showing all the risks, a new report claims.

Early childhood teachers are being asked to take pay cuts, slash hours and even quit while parents face higher fees.

The NZEI union has been asked to address concerns held by some staff at Auckland's Kelston Intermediate School over reciting a Maori prayer before lessons start each day.

The University of Auckland is about to shake up the neighbourhood when staff and students move into Newmarket next year - but neighbours won't feel a thing.

A second senior staff member at the Ministry of Education who was involved in the Novopay project has resigned.

A teacher who reprimanded pupils by pulling ears has been allowed to stay in the classroom after completing anger management classes.

The former chairman of Pamapuria School has defended its ex-principal, who was found to have been rightly sacked for failing to ensure pupils' safety from a paedophile.