Spy tactics are paying off as one of New Zealand's top schools bids to thwart zone cheats who fake enrolment details.

An Auckland teenager was mistakenly sent the wrong person's marked papers in the mail.

More secondary school and university students should consider accounting and finance as a career, says a recruitment specialist.

A 15-year-old schoolboy took his own life after being part of a late-night text conversation about suicide.

Beth Park reports on the hidden health benefits of a beer.

International students continue to arrive despite the recession and economic crisis, a Department of Labour report says.

Cucumbers are the perfect plant for the summer party season.

The Ministry of Education was forced to intervene in almost 50 at-risk schools last year, more than four times the amount from 2007.

Private-school scholarships for poorer students have been attacked as an "elitist" use of taxpayers' money.

Charles Darwin spent nine days in New Zealand in 1835. He disliked the young country, but his experience helped shape his monumental theories about evolution.

Children who learn to read at age five are unlikely to be better readers than children who learn to read at seven, according to new research.

A school principal wants the value of te reo exams reassessed, saying some students have it too easy.