Auckland Grammar head John Morris responds to a Herald editorial on the school opting out of NCEA.

Education Minister Anne Tolley is backing Auckland Grammar's headmaster - despite his NCEA rebellion.

Auckland Grammar met with officials today following the school's decision to offer Cambridge examinations instead of the national NCEA qualification this year.

Ministry of Education officials and Auckland Grammar will today discuss the school's decision to offer Cambridge examinations instead of the national qualification, NCEA, this year.

Auckland Grammar is defying the Government by becoming the first state school to dump NCEA at the Year 11 level. Other schools may follow suit if the move goes smoothly.

A blaze which "totalled" a block at Auckland's Glendowie Primary School is being investigated as an arson.

Much of an Auckland primary school was in ruins last night after an intense blaze which created a vast plume of smoke visible from many parts of the city.

The Government needs to stop hiding if it wants to avoid intensified strike action by secondary school teachers next year, says the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA).

A teacher 'counselled' a student who was in a relationship with a relative by having sex with her at lunchtime.

The Ministry of Education and the primary teachers and principals' union have reached an agreement on collective contracts.

Auckland teenager Nicholas Beel reckons driving lessons are almost a breeze - when he's with his mother.

A teacher who used repeated sexualised comments with his year 11 students has escaped being deregistered.

Judy Kraidy lost her job teaching foreign students because she refused to pass those who didn't learn anything.