It is unbelievable that a difficult child could be locked in a tiny cell at any New Zealand school nowadays.

An Auckland primary school is asking parents to fork out up to $100 for a transition-to-school programme for under 5s.

Consultation has begun on an update of the 20-year-old early childhood education curriculum.

A massive privacy breach has struck the beleaguered Novopay school payroll with personal details of staff members sent to wrong schools.

The mum whose complaint about a cell-like seclusion room at a primary school sparked a proposed law change says it's "what she wanted most".

The Government's crackdown on student loan borrowers in Australia has stepped up a notch.

More 18-year-olds are leaving school with NCEA Level 2 - a "stand-out" achievement in Government education targets.

Minister of Education Hekia Parata will be making a big move after she finishes her role in government next year.

Requests for help from the Ministry of Education's traumatic incident team are coming in on more than a daily basis.

COMMENT: The first time our son stuttered I burst out laughing. By the next day he could barely get a word out at all and it wasn't a laughing matter.

The Ministry of Education has put schools on notice: stop using cell-like seclusion rooms as punishment immediately.

Education Minister Hekia Parata revealed that 8 of the 64 special schools in New Zealand are using a seclusion room.

Education Minister Hekia Parata says the Prime Minister's suggestion that her husband's ill-health played a part in her shock decision to retire from politics is wrong.

Top education and police chiefs are investigating their own staff following accusations they sent porn to a Northland principal.

Mandatory CCTV cameras in special needs transport is still not in place, more than a year after the Ministry of Education vowed it was imminent.

Principal advocate says difficult students may be informally removed but additional support was needed or all other students bore the brunt.

Cambridge High School and Ngaruawahia High School Waikato will both undergo major redevelopments at a cost of $17 million.

COMMENT: Recent cases indicate violence between and against children is widely accepted.

Around $9 million will be invested in the redevelopment of Edgecumbe College in the Bay of Plenty, Education Minister Hekia Parata

LEAVE: Ngarimu Simpkins, pictured in court this week, has gone on leave while Rotorua Boys' High School makes a decision about his

An independent inquiry should immediately investigate the use of "time out" rooms in schools, says the head of the national Autism charity.

Angry parents say they will pull their children from a Wellington school caught using a "time-out" room for naughty pupils unless there is more accountability.

EXCLUSIVE: Mother hits out at Wellington primary school's "dirty little secret": "I'm horrified a school would do that, my son is petrified of the dark."

More than 1300 schools will be worse off as a result of a radical new funding system, the Herald can reveal.

Teachers are demanding to know if they risk police charges for physically separating school fights or defending themselves when students attack.

The release of seclusion and restraint guidelines to teachers faced with violent and extreme situations has been delayed due to legal problems.

The news that teachers fear legal action for stopping school fights underlines what a hard job school teaching must be.

The Productivity Commission is toying with the idea that secondary school students begin a savings fund for university.

Putting interest back on student loans is being categorically ruled out, as the Government eyes changes to tertiary education.

Herald investigation: Some teenagers are taking spurious NCEA standards - learning about toilet cleaning, household shopping and shift work.