Education reporter, NZ Herald
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PhD students told: 'Take a break, pick fruit'
Foreign doctoral students advised to take a 'holiday' and pick fruit.
'Asking for trouble': Stoush over new religious school on farmland
School would be in "the best place to market garden in the area".
Avocado heists feed sushi black market
Avocado thieves are supplying a growing black market for sushi shops.
Industry shakeup: New body to run polytechs, apprentices
Sixteen polytechnics will be merged into one entity that will take over industry training,
Learning local: Stink bug threat turns kids on to science
Told to welcome "a real scientist", a child protested: "But we are all scientists!"
School's out: More young Kiwis quit early to chase jobs
More Pākehā are leaving school early to chase jobs, narrowing the qualifications gap.
Call to shut public out of all kauri forests
Forest and Bird has shut its own reserves to dramatise a need to close all kauri forests.
New app aims to lure an extra 2000 building apprentices
App will let students track their progress through school - then get an apprenticeship.
Budget: 'Our outgoings are bigger than our income'
Manurewa family looks for Budget help for children and their education.
Army banned from letting school kids handle guns
Draft guidelines issued after army let primary school kids handle guns last year.
Winston Peters has aces to play
Veteran politician back in kingmaker role as National tries to form next government.
Bills may rise to stop sewage overflows
EXCLUSIVE: Water bills in the country's largest city may have to rise to stop raw sewage flowing into Auckland Harbour almost every time it rains.
Our kids at risk: Calling time on trouble
NZ has the fourth-highest rate of child deaths from assault in the OECD. Simon Collins visited three communities to look for the root causes.
Migrants 'crowding out' young Kiwis
Salvation Army recommends tightening immigration rules further beyond last week's Government decisions to raise the point system.
Police in dispute at historic homestead
Police were called to one of Auckland's most stunning and historic homesteads when a neighbour started felling native trees this week.
Hungry? Order a steak from the lab
An heir of one of the world's richest families is banking on laboratory-grown meat as the next big industry of the future.
Key to ask Oravida again to stop using his image
Prime Minister John Key says his office will write again to Oravida asking it to stop using his photo in its promotional material.
Youth in holding pattern as recession bites north
The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.
Project helps homeless find their roots
Ngati Whatua has given up part of its land at Bastion Point for homeless people to grow vegetables for the City Mission's foodbank.