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

When I was their age I was revising for a series of three-hour exams. It was pass or fail, regardless of the previous two years' work. That's not fair, writes Lisa Rodgers.

COMMENT: They don't understand how under NCEA everyone can be a winner, writes Peter Lyons.

A move by one of the country's most exclusive private schools to take girls at a younger age has seen an exodus of 50 students from its competitors.

Teenage football star Grace Jale is off to Brazil with the Football Ferns, but first ... exams.

We shouldn't just take it at as axiomatic that low decile means low achievement. What we need now is evidence. We need to work collegially and collectively across deciles, writes Barbara Ala'alatoa.

Illness has been a major factor in increasing numbers of children missing school.

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

Secondary school students around the country will be putting their learning to the test from today, as NCEA exams kick off.

While most teenagers spend their spare time checking their Facebook updates, Yasmine Dai has been more interested in staring into murky tanks of sea water.

The headmaster of one of Auckland's most popular boys' schools will defer retirement to lead the revitalisation of a struggling school across town.

What we need to be talking about is the kind of learning that we think is appropriate before we get to assessment, writes Steve Maharey. Good learning begins with the curriculum.

The trend is growing for programming to become the language of choice in schools.

It's been humbling to watch reactions of our own students and teachers to the events of the past week, writes Manurewa High principal Salvatore Gargiulo.

Rather than blame CIE for engendering a lack of confidence in NCEA, perhaps they should look at NCEA and discuss how best to improve it, writes John Morris.

Without a national achievement target, how would the PPTA suggest the performance of the eduction system be checked?

Grumpy teenagers who don't want to get out of bed have had their complaints vindicated by scientists who analysed 30 years of sleep science.

When it comes to hooking young Kiwis on science, there might be no brighter way than making things glow in the dark.

She aced her level 3 NCEA exams at only Year 12 and now a bright spark Auckland student has scooped gold in an international geography competition.

A new report says there is no evidence that programmes are providing teens a more effective pathway to further education and training.

Many teachers would like students to be able to do external assessment "online, anytime", NZQA says.

NCEA results suggest boys are beginning to catch up with girls in their senior school years.

Evidence has emerged showing the grades of boys are finally catching up with girls' since a radical overhaul of the secondary school exam system.

The principal at Northcote's Hato Petera College has been suspended from his role as chief executive of the school's hostel and three managers have resigned.

Teachers' unions always insist they are professional bodies serving the interests of education, not just their members.

High school principals will cut the number of pupils attending popular trades academies in a bid to protect the jobs of teachers and senior management.

Boys are often fun to teach. I always swore I would never teach at a boys' school given my own experiences at school in the 1970s. It was violent, brutish and dull.

A carving programme that fostered passion and changed attitudes to learning has been announced as the supreme winner of the Prime Minister's Education Excellence Awards.

Schools are struggling to find maths and science teachers, while middle management jobs are going begging as senior staff retire.