The finances of every public secondary school in NZ are being investigated by the Office of the Auditor-General hunting for breaches over charges to parents.

Four students have been excluded from one of the country's top schools for taking and sending images that constituted "harassment".

An Auckland high school has lost a court battle to keep a child with Asperger’s out of the classroom.

Financially strapped secondary schools are cutting back on classroom activities, dropping field trips, and ditching science experiments.

Green Bay High School is going to one of the country's highest courts to fight to keep a teenager with Asperger's out of the classroom.

Schools have been asked to consider offering gender-neutral uniforms as part of new sexuality education guidelines aimed at being more inclusive. Is this a good idea?

Two bandana-clad men have been charged with disorderly behaviour likely to cause violence after going to a college in Mosgiel in school time to confront a pupil.

Students will be sitting exams on computers by the end of this year, as NZQA plans to get rid of some paper-based exams altogether as soon as 2018.

Three of Auckland's biggest public high schools are seeking to build international student hostels on site so they can boost numbers and reap the financial rewards.

An Auckland girls’ school has banned an anonymous messaging app, after students reported problems with bullying and nasty comments.

Principals at poorer schools have defended the huge drop-off in the number of students gaining UE, rejecting accusations they push students into "soft" subjects.

Students at a Bay of Plenty high school were so determined to pass NCEA they stayed after hours, and during the holidays to make it through.

Two high school students from Tauranga and their robot will be heading to the United States this weekend hoping to become world champions.

A St Bede’s Board of Trustees member has quit in the wake of a rowing controversy involving two pupils.

Rather than trying to come up with a figure for our pay adjustment, our claim is obvious - 5.5 per cent, the same obscenely generous figure the authority deemed necessary for MPs, writes Steve McCabe.

Ongoing problems with Novopay and why a struggling charter school has not been shut down have been raised with the Ministry of Education in a select committee hearing today.

Students taking part in a sports technology course at an Auckland high school will attend the training sessions of top teams.

Education Minister Hekia Parata has released figures for the first time showing iwi by iwi how Maori children do in early childhood education, primary school and NCEA.

Nearly four in five Auckland secondary schools now ask or permit students to bring a device such as a laptop or tablet - potentially adding hundreds of dollars to back-to-school costs.

Auckland is a great place - but it can be even better. In the second of our five-part Future Auckland series we aim to stimulate debate. Teuila Fuatai reports.

Most teachers and their unions don't seem to understand the rationale behind charter schools, writes Peter Lyons.

One of New Zealand's first charter schools is failing, abysmally, and the Ministry of Education must stop dodging questions, writes Rose Patterson.

The single most reliable indicator of future academic success is the number of books you have in your home when you grow up, writes Peter O'Connor.

Some teachers need to get over their victim mentality and recognise the benefit of cutting their holiday time, a leading principal says.

There are growing concerns schoolboy rugby is a fertile environment for drug taking to become rife.

Getting the Government's Investing in Educational Success programme running in relatively quick order was never going to be easy. The concept was bound to be opposed by some.