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Cellphone test urged for students

A visiting cyber-bullying expert is urging schools to make students take driver licence-style tests before they can take mobile phones and tablets to class.

Geoff O'Halloran: Novopay will deliver benefits to schools in the long term

Students to start trades in classroom

Using the NCEA framework, the employment-focused model will allow students to choose a career and work towards gaining the skills they need to succeed in that job.

Mismatch shuts generation out of jobs

As students look to next year, the Herald begins a week-long investigation into why so many are leaving school without the skills they need.

Catherine Isaac: Partnership Schools' strength in flexibility

Catherine Isaac says it is wrong to propose that limiting the concept in such ways could have improved the focus on helping disadvantaged children.

Keep cool, exam candidates told

Hugging fad earns ban at school

North Shore students have been banned from hugging during school hours because too many of them were consistently arriving late to their classes.

Cellphone becomes ally in kids' exam preparation

Swotting for NCEA exams has been made easier with the very device parents and teachers hold as the enemy of study - teenagers' cellphones.

Stats show which schools are doing best

The Ministry of Education and the NZQA are being called on to release national school statistics at the same time as students get their marks back.