A positive change could emerge from the Roast Busters scandal, a victim advocate says, as the Ministry of Education plans new sex education guidelines for schools.

Gardens School in Manurewa was one of the biggest casualties of the leaky building crisis and has been leaking ever since it was built in the late 1990s.

A scheme in which millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on sending students to private schools needs to be assessed to see if it is delivering results, an education union says.

Fewer children starting school can speak in sentences, prompting an investigation by education chiefs.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is in negotiation in the hope of opening more charter schools next year, possibly allowing tertiary institutions to run them.

Schools are being made to re-enrol students they had kicked out for bad behaviour including carrying weapons, physical assaults and drug use.

An organisation headed by broadcaster and former politician Willie Jackson is in negotiations to open a charter school.

How open Kiwi students are to international cultures and opportunities could be measured as an important part of the school curriculum.

New Zealand women are earning thousands of dollars less than their male counterparts just five years after graduation, a report reveals.

The Serious Fraud Office says it has found no criminal offending at Te Pataka Ohanga, the subsidiary of the Kohanga Reo National Trust.

How much graduates in different fields of study can expect to earn has been revealed. So what should school students be choosing to study?

A teacher at a now defunct school created a "truly horrific environment" for pupils, including threatening to cut off boys' penises, a Teachers Council decision reveals.

A complaint against a daycare centre is being investigated after a 2-year-old managed to wrap five rubber bands around her neck.

A principal and her husband who admitted siphoning more than $30,000 from a decile one school in South Auckland have been sentenced to home detention.

A former teacher at one of the country's top secondary schools has appeared in court charged with committing an indecent act at the school.

The distraught parents of an infant who needed hospital treatment after being repeatedly bitten by a 2-year-old boy at a preschool.

A principal and her husband siphoned off more than $30,000 from a decile one school in South Auckland and splashed out on themselves.

There will be less chance of dodgy teachers resurfacing at other schools under legislation to be introduced in Parliament today, Education Minister Hekia Parata says.

Respectful attitudes to sex would become a core part of sex education in schools under an overhaul recommended to the Govt.

Finding the right school is not an easy task. There are many complications, not least the relevance of data available on each school, and ongoing debate about the value of the qualifications offered.

In the second of our three-part education series we investigate what's gone wrong - and how more time with better-trained teachers could help our kids lead the world again.

New Zealand's most at-risk school students should receive similar funding as those who are attending controversial charter schools, those involved in alternative education say.

The Government is working towards more charter or partnership schools beyond the five already approved Prime Minister John Key said ahead of the opening of the first one today.

A top Auckland secondary school is asking parents to shell out more than $1000 when their sons return to class in two weeks' time.

New "executive" and "expert" positions in schools could have wide-reaching effects - including more-energised teachers and reduced competition between schools.

National has managed to win praise from many of its usual critics - even the teacher unions - for its latest policy to try to lift student achievement.