In the last year parents and communities have propped up schools throughout the country, pumping $700 million into the nation's free education system.

A rising rugby star who dreams of playing for the All Blacks is at the centre of a poaching row between two top private schools.

Student Tae Won Chung stabbed his teacher after being goaded about his fear of North Korea and returning home to military training, a court hears.

Foreign students could study in NZ primary schools without the need for a legal guardian if pastoral care rules are relaxed.

An overdue law reform will remove the ability for criminal cowboys to set up a private school.

Greater powers are needed to censure private schools which are not up to scratch, the Law Commission has recommended.

University vice-chancellors have been speaking to the qualifications authority about whether University Entrance standards are too low.

Next Top Model contestant Ruby Higgins will emerge from mountains of school exam work to take up a television cameo.

South Island mayors have been quick to say "no thanks" to the prospect of the Undie 500 student rally moving to their neck of the woods.

Canterbury student leaders turn the key off for the infamous Canterbury car rally to Dunedin.

Only 2 per cent of high schools are ready for an extensive overhaul of the national curriculum in five months, a report says.