Emma Uren, 14, will compete in the New Zealand Spelling Bee.

Two home-based childcare businesses have been caught overcharging the Government for thousands of dollars of taxpayer subsidies.

A troubled private Christian school forced to close at the end of last term over safety fears for children will fight to re-open.

Ballooning numbers of preschool kids being taught at home by under-qualified grandparents and nannies - at the taxpayers' expense.

ASG survey shows families struggling to keep up with schooling's extra costs.

Concerns were raised about an evaluation of charter schools by the head of the Government.

A survey of early childhood teachers has found a quarter of them would not be happy to have their own child enrolled where they work.

For some, charter schools are making a genuine and positive difference. They offer choice, and choice is never a bad thing.

A group of young children formed the Rangatahi Philharmonia o Tara orchestra, which will play its first concert at the Auckland Town Hall tonight.

An Auckland primary school principal says he signed a settlement agreement under duress.

When she was five year's old Anna Redgrave's parents were told she would never achieve success. Last week, Ms Redgrave graduated with First Class Honours.

Businesses may be placing less importance on university degrees but employees with tertiary education still earn more on average.

After months of pilot programmes OMGTech! launched their nationwide initiative to enable access for all children in NZ to learn advanced technology.

"Bro culture" in many workplaces that pay men more than women means that one law student is entering the workforce with apprehension.

Education Minister's proposal to link school funding to student achievement has been met with scepticism by educators.

The secondary teachers union will drop a proposed move to ban foreign qualifications, saying it was proving a "distraction" from the real issues around NCEA.

The Education Minister has referenced anti-apartheid protests when calling for the PPTA to drop its ban on working with people involved with charter schools.

Are businesses placing less importance on university degrees?

Schools are not taking field trips needed to teach core aspects of the curriculum in subjects like geography - instead having students watch videos.

All Ministry of Education-contracted vehicles used to transport special needs children will have cameras installed following the case of a driver who sexually assaulted a girl he was tasked with....

A former army major will graduate tomorrow for the third time as the oldest of a record number of University of Auckland students.

While most teenagers spend their spare time checking their Facebook updates, Yasmine Dai has been more interested in staring into murky tanks of sea water.

A successful campaign against a failure to include parents in an overhaul of the special education system has seen an extra 33 meetings held around the country.

The headmaster of one of Auckland's most popular boys' schools will defer retirement to lead the revitalisation of a struggling school across town.

Low pay, big workloads and growing levels of abuse are among factors discouraging people from teaching, according to Post Primary Teachers' Association representatives.

What we need to be talking about is the kind of learning that we think is appropriate before we get to assessment, writes Steve Maharey. Good learning begins with the curriculum.

The trend is growing for programming to become the language of choice in schools.

An Auckland teacher who spat on a five-year-old Down Syndrome boy's face will be allowed to keep teaching.

Three girls from Manurewa High School who were caught on camera earlier this month stomping and punching each other have been expelled.