A primary school with a long-running problem of rotten timber and faulty cladding is to be almost completely demolished.

The Government will double funding to tackle truancy after a survey of schools found more than 30,000 children a day are skipping classes.

Two teenagers forced to take drug tests at their high school deserve apologies for their inappropriate and unfair treatment, say their parents.

Tertiary students who fail more than half their courses may lose their student loans as the Government moves to crack down on abuse.

Hesitation is death in Parliament. Hesitation suggests a minister is not on top of his or her portfolio, writes John Armstrong.

The Government is taking aim at lazy students and courses with high dropout or failure rates in looming reforms in tertiary education.

A high school renowned for producing a string of Kiwi sporting stars has been accused of inappropriately drug-testing some students.

Almost three-quarters of parents support the Government's controversial national achievement standards for primary and intermediate students.

School principals want to be treated as "democratically" as Maori immersion schools in the roll-out of national standards.

The Govt's approach to national standards has shifted from benchmarks to help students to performance measures for teachers, the NZ Principals' Federation says.

Albany High equalises software access.

John Key and Anne Tolley justified a $200,000 taxpayer-funded public relations campaign to sell national standards.