More than 2000 extra prisoners will study basic maths and reading in a bid to improve their job prospects on release and cut reoffending.

Three Christchurch intermediate schools, parents and Opposition MPs say Education Minister Hekia Parata broke promises to keep intermediate schools open.

The Ministry of Education says it will work with its taxi companies to ensure no special needs child is stranded without a lift to or from school.

A visiting opponent of charter schools has told the education and science committee in Parliament today the Government should not proceed with charter schools.

Every Monday night, Chance Morgan watches Piha Rescue - it's one of her favourite television shows - so she knew the lifeguards before meeting them on school camp.

Special needs students have been stood up with no ride to and from school after a change in the taxi company used by the Government.

Hundreds of teachers have declared a motion of no confidence in Education Minister Hekia Parata at a rally in Christchurch.

Education Minister Hekia Parata folded under pressure to apologise over Novopay this afternoon.

Principals of the three intermediate schools tagged for closure said yesterday they were not told the truth by Education Minister Hekia Parata.

Hekia Parata or no Hekia Parata in the job, Cabinet ministers had few illusions from the start.

When Metiana Alesana saw her 9-year old daughter Diamond crying uncontrollably after hearing news her school would close, she broke down.

While some Christchurch schools have been left shattered by news they are to close or merge, others are leaping for joy.

Prime Minister John Key is standing by his Education Minister in the face of a poll which found a majority of voters think she should have been dumped from Cabinet.

The fate of Christchurch schools facing closure or being merged will be known today when Education Minister Hekia Parata announces the Government's decisions.

Orthopaedic house surgeon David Choi, 24, works more than 12 hours a day tending to trauma patients with broken bones at Auckland City Hospital, but is also

The country's medical schools are lending support to a music teacher who has sounded an alarm over talented students ditching arts to pursue science studies.

The Ministry of Education is reviewing a key test for school pupils amid concerns that it is producing unusually high results.

An Auckland school is asking parents to make sure their children are showering daily and wearing antiperspirant so they don't have "overpowering" body odour.

A teacher at one of New Zealand's most prestigious private boarding schools was sacked after a disagreement over grades descended into an drawn-out dispute.

At 2.2m, Bronx native "Mighty Joe" Dorsett-Jeffreys often gets the jump on his opponents in the New York streetball circuit.