There is no new money to offer teachers a bigger pay increase unless they wanted to burden their students with a future of paying off national debt, says Prime Minister John Key.

The Ministry of Education says it will not dock the pay of secondary teachers striking this week as a show of good faith.

Anne Tolley says secondary school teachers striking over pay and conditions need to wake up to the economic reality of their situation.

More than 120,000 students will be asked to stay at home for a day this week after the teachers' union rejected what the Ministry of Education says is an 'excellent' pay offer.

As teachers reject the Govt's latest pay offer, the Education Minister says they simply don't have the kind of money being asked for.

Secondary school sex education lessons have certainly undergone a change over the years.

An international school run by the husband of disgraced former Act MP Donna Awatere Huata has gone into liquidation.

Columnist Kerre Woodham finds herself in two minds about the teachers' strike.

Michele Hewitson speaks to the man at the helm of Auckland's most traditional private school for boys, King's College.

Stalled negotiations between teachers and the Ministry of Education may even see students told to stay at home.

Striking teachers around the country took their protests to the street today.

More than 2000 secondary teachers have marched down Auckland's Queen St to rally for better pay today.

A NZ man who lost a ring 40 years ago in a US lake has had news that his treasured possession has been found.