There won't be any changes to legislation around the controversial partnership schools despite opposition parties continuing their objections to elements of the bill.

Backers of a controversial scheme to fast-track trainee teachers into classrooms are claiming initial success, with all 16 inaugural graduates passing their first three months as teachers.

Ten subcommittees, 328 helpers, five volunteers putting in fulltime hours and 1000 cupcakes - the modern-day school fair involves more than organising a coconut shy and a white elephant sale.

The Duke of Edinburgh Award operates in more than 140 countries. The New Zealand section has operated here since 1963. In 2009, the local organisers adopted an expanded name, the Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Award, to honour the late Everest conqueror Sir

A self-proclaimed "physics nerd" from Burnside High School is heading to Nasa after winning a scholarship to space camp.

The Government will invest $80.5 million of operating funding over four years to lift educational achievement, including funding for behaviour programmes.

Auckland's Rudolf Steiner schools could lose their only religious instruction teacher because of an Immigration New Zealand decision not to recognise her as a religious worker.

It's exam time for applicants hoping to run charter schools, the Act Party's competitive prod at state schools which are said to be failing too many Maori, Pacific and other "disadvantaged" kids.

Pacific health experts are calling for a quota on the amount of fatty food exported to the Pacific Islands, where heart disease, diabetes and obesity are the norm.

The number of hungry people seeking food at night in my diocese has doubled in the past two months, writes Bishop Denis Browne.

A former Far North deputy principal will be sentenced in August on 74 charges of sexual offending against boys.

Teenagers in a pocket of rural Georgia have held their first integrated school prom, ending decades of racial segregation that kept black and white pupils apart.

Many people assume that sending their child to a private school will boost their academic achievement, writes Judith Nowotarski. That assumption is wrong.

Another 172 new defects have been found with the Novopay school payroll system since the Government began fixing original bugs at the end of February.

Former Air New Zealand boss Rob Fyfe says university business students don't understand leadership in the real world.

United Future leader Peter Dunne has said he won't support a bill to introduce charter schools. However, the bill will go ahead with National, Act and Maori Party support.

A Waikato school is answering calls for more skilled young people in the rural sector by developing a state-of-the-art academy focused on agricultural science and business.

The Ministry of Education has begun legal action against major building product companies over its huge repair bill for leaky school buildings.

I don't believe teaching in New Zealand is a profession in the true sense of the word, writes Peter Lyons. A profession such as law or medicine or accounting controls entry into its own ranks.

It's a subject schools and universities don't like to dwell on - the likelihood that students may be cheating their way to academic success and higher qualifications.

New Zealand's biggest home childcare provider is rewording its contracts to impose new conditions in relation to the publicly-funded 20 hours' "free" childcare."

An estimated 2000 people marched in downtown Auckland this afternoon in protest at the Government's education reforms.