The University of Auckland has been knocked off its perch in a ranking of universities on the research performance of academic staff.

Already-full schools face being made to cram in more students as the Government struggles to cope with the growth in Auckland's population.

There are no plans to replicate the way Christchurch schools have been rationalised elsewhere in the country, Education Minister Hekia Parata has assured primary school principals.

Teachers know they are in an ideological battle over the future of public education, writes Peter O'Connor. That is why on Saturday they will be marching in civic centres across the country.

A former Northland teacher has pleaded guilty to a further 25 charges, including five charges of sexual assault, at Kaitaia District Court this morning.

The 23 children in the classroom at Richmond Road School in Ponsonby are sitting on the mat, just like the kids in any other primary class.

The company behind the flawed Novopay system has sent a number of schools the wrong emails about yet-to-be-processed actions regarding their payrolls.

Whatever his teacher and vice-principal thought, it was solved here, in a country village school, by a teacher doing it one way, writes Allyson Gofton.

The Ministry of Education is the latest Government department to admit to a privacy breach.

A teacher aide about to go on her first overseas trip fatally choked at her farewell dinner - the second tragedy to strike Auckland's Birkenhead College in recent days.

The final "vocational pathways" have been launched in an effort to guide students into specific industries.

One in three international students deported or asked to leave voluntarily was Chinese.

Over the past decade, one in five international students gained permanent New Zealand residency within five years of being issued their first student visa.

My daughter's primary school has just had its annual swimming sports day.

Student loan holders will pay $11 more a week from today as the Government ramps up its repayment scheme.

A teacher from an exclusive Auckland school is subject to investigation, understood to be over a mystery illness and claims she behaved inappropriately with a student.

Large brothels have been banned in Lyttelton as part of a city council's clamp down on the sex industry.

Children are better off playing after school than doing hours of homework, educators say.

Education Minister Hekia Parata has corrected an answer to Parliament about the resignation of Education Secretary Lesley Longstone.

Christchurch primary school children have been found accessing internet porn sites at home and sharing website addresses with their friends at school.

New Zealanders' long lives and educational attainment have put the country in the top 10 most developed countries in the world, according to a United Nations measure.

A church pastor says underage girls in south Auckland are being pimped out by their parents and in some families three generations are working as prostitutes.