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Kamo High School board deny being bullied by union

Community of Learning: Auckland Normal Intermediate

Three of Auckland Normal Intermediate's teachers are quite excited. Clara Kim, Alicia England and Ben Griffiths have just shown a group of Epsom Girls Grammar teachers around their school and will go on a a reciprocal trip the following day.

Pot-smoking students focus of case

A school's right to get tough on pot puffing international pupils is under examination.

Editorial: NCEA's poor report card needs action

A survey of 1777 secondary school teachers has found nearly half believe the national assessment system, NCEA, is adversely affecting their teaching.

Mike's Minute: Selling cool careers

You wouldn't think giving kids good career advice was an overly difficult job; and yet, here we are.

Quality career conversations

Engaging with the future workforce can create positive labour market outcomes says Mark Gillard, director of the Careers Expo.

Back to Maths class

With a shortage of subject teachers causing concern, Lawrence Watt sits in on a college Maths class with an award-winning teacher

Watch: NZ's top secondary school scholar

Nervous wait for NCEA results is over

For anxious students around the country the wait is over: NCEA exam results are now available online.

Mulitalo Filipo Levi: Partnership school provides chance for academic excellence

The education and lives of young people is not about political points scoring. It is about expectations of excellence and clear pathways of which I am a proud to be a part, writes Mulitalo Filipo Levi.

'Critical lack of local teachers'

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

Lisa Rodgers: NCEA is not a pass or fail system

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.

Peter Lyons: NCEA pass rates hard for parents to cope with

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

Parents shop around the elite schools

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.

Exams first for schoolgirl star

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

Barbara Ala'alatoa: Decile doesn't mean destiny

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.