Places at many popular universities will be restricted next year to students who gain top marks at high school.

Education officials are working to clarify a "grey area" for school staff around their powers to search students suspected of carrying weapons and drugs.

Dunedin student pub The Garden Tavern, known as Gardies, will close its doors for the final time this weekend after being sold to Otago University this year.

Three-quarters of teachers are feeling unprepared and rushed as they work to implement national standards, a survey has found.

One of Britain's best-known soldiers has mocked claims of post-traumatic stress disorder among the armed forces.

Jane Phare talks to a South African living in New Zealand who is returning to Cape Town armed with lessons learned from Kiwis.

Five teachers disciplined for offences ranging from sex with students to watching porn in a classroom have had their identities protected.

A radical plan for cut-price degrees has been outlined in the UK as a means of solving higher education's economic woes.

A university lecturer has embraced Wikipedia as part of her teaching after initially shunning the online encyclopedia.

Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.

Quick-thinking staff are being praised after a knife was pulled during an altercation at a Hamilton school this morning.

Police are investigating claims parents have organised after-school fights between Northland teenagers to settle playground disputes.