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Nannies make good job look like child's play

Top students $30,000 richer

Some of the country's brightest young minds have been named as the top performers in the 2009 Scholarship examinations.

NCEA supporters cheer as poorer schools catch up

New Zealand's once-yawning gap in student achievement between schools in rich and poor areas has closed by almost a third in the past five years.

Jurors see where teen died

Key promises shake-up to weed out 'lazy' students

The Government is taking aim at lazy students and courses with high dropout or failure rates in looming reforms in tertiary education.

<i>Deborah Coddington</i>: A few standards in schools is not too much to ask for

Kids' lunch box time bombs

National standards 'tool to bash schools' - NZPF

The Govt's approach to national standards has shifted from benchmarks to help students to performance measures for teachers, the NZ Principals' Federation says.

NZ students get top marks in Cambridge school exams

Interest-free student loans 'stay'

Coroner's court probes dead youth's use of Prozac

Eighteen months after Toran Henry killed himself, his mother finally gets to have her say on whether an anti-depressant influenced his death.

School's in for 59,000 on debut

Taxpayers fund PR for school standards

John Key and Anne Tolley justified a $200,000 taxpayer-funded public relations campaign to sell national standards.

NZ teen sells virginity to a stranger for $45k

Student offers her virginity for sale online

A cash-strapped Kiwi student is selling her virginity to the highest online bidder.