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.

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.

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

Official targets for Maori primary pupils are likely to be missed by as much as 20 per cent in some cases.

About 70 children will have to move out of their Ellerslie preschool at the end of this term to make way for a planned retirement village.

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

Education Minister Hekia Parata has talked for years about replacing the decile system of school funding.

EXCLUSIVE: Government evaluates plan to allocate cash based on students' risk of failure.

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.