The number of "extra" teachers paid by schools has shot up by more than 50 per cent over the past four years, new figures show.

Within minutes of walking into her first high-school physics class Amelia Unufe felt like an outsider.

A Herald investigation has found deep disparities hidden beneath rising high school pass-rates tied to students' socio-economic status and ethnicity.

COMMENT: Funding for schools should be focused on what matters most: education.

School-age students will be able to enrol in an accredited online learning provider instead of attending school, under new Government legislation.

The Fox Glacier School roll has fallen to five, its lowest number in over 20 years when the village school was briefly closed.

Struggling families who keep their children from school to mind younger siblings or sick parents are believed to be behind alarming

Parents are insisting their tamariki get a Maori education and immersion schools are feeling the pressure.

School classes will be disrupted as thousands of teachers hold meetings about a funding proposal feared to be the return of bulk funding.

It is a tough task for teenagers to make sound decisions about their career path.

Labour wants careers advice to be more professional.

Newmarket School will get a four-storey high classroom block to cater for its growing roll as part of an $8.7 million redevelopment of the site.

Christchurch's Redcliffs School will stay open, it has been announced.

School principals uncertain about their right to discipline international students have asked the Ministry of Education to clear up confusion.

The Government has announced it will spend more than $14 million rebuilding a Manurewa primary school riddled with toxic mould and asbestos.

A parent of a pupil at Salisbury School has spoken of his disappointment over the proposal to close the special needs school his daughter attends.

A decision to start discussions over the future of a special education school for girls is "unbelievably short-sighted", the school's board chairman says.

Teacher aides should be paid in the same way as teachers, an education union says, as new research shows they are among the worst-off occupations.

The New Zealand First leader is demanding an explanation from the Education Minister.

Secondary schools are forced to look overseas for maths and physics teaching staff as minimal numbers of students are qualifying here.

Top public sector CEOs reap at least $50,000 in pay rises and bonuses.

Senior education officials say the teacher drain from Auckland is reaching crisis point - leading to calls for an "Auckland allowance".

The Ministry of Education is offering schools professional development programmes to help teachers deliver sex education.

Almost half of preschoolers referred to a government service because of learning or behavioural difficulties are not getting help quickly enough.

A troubled private Christian school forced to close at the end of last term over safety fears for children will fight to re-open.

Ballooning numbers of preschool kids being taught at home by under-qualified grandparents and nannies - at the taxpayers' expense.

All Ministry of Education-contracted vehicles used to transport special needs children will have cameras installed following the case of a driver who sexually assaulted a girl he was tasked with....

Efforts to sell Fisher & Paykel Finance are gathering momentum, but mixed messages are emerging over when the deal might be clinched.

A successful campaign against a failure to include parents in an overhaul of the special education system has seen an extra 33 meetings held around the country.