It is a question that keeps some parents awake at night. Should children be allowed to take mobile phones to school?

Providers of Bible studies at more than 660 public Kiwi schools will head to the High Court next week to fight to keep religious studies in our classrooms.

Secondary school students were handed a pamphlet branding women in de facto relationships "cheap prostitutes".

A principal who escaped conviction for slapping a student is back at school, outraging the mother of his victim.

School leaders should be commended for standing firm on the type of building that suits the Grammar philosophy and pedagogy, writes John Morris.

A bearded Christchurch student who claims he was sent home in breach of his school’s facial hair policy remains away from the classroom as the row continues.

Otago University researchers have come out on top in health awards scooping up more than $1.8 million in funding for research.

Students will be sitting exams on computers by the end of this year, as NZQA plans to get rid of some paper-based exams altogether as soon as 2018.

Two of New Zealand’s top scientists have watched their daughters graduate on the same stage they were seated this week.

Forcing students sitting scholarship exams to pay more per exam will just put another hurdle before teenagers in poorer communities, Labour says.

Auckland University officially opens its 5.2ha Newmarket Campus tomorrow although students have been there for many months.

A former teacher of a leading Auckland school has been found to have been masturbating in a classroom while watching pornography.

Students at Oxford University in Britain are being allowed to compete in the biggest rugby tournaments of the season only if they agree to attend anti-misogyny workshops.

Massey University has announced a blanket ban on all watches from exam rooms to beat cheats.

A Christchurch high school has today denied standing down a bearded student who allegedly refused to comply with its facial hair policy.

The Australian doctor who fled to Syria to join ISIS has hit out at claims he was brainwashed into making the move in an open letter.

A former teacher of a leading Auckland school has been found to have been masturbating in a classroom while watching pornography.

Students sitting scholarship exams this year will need to stump up $30 per exam - a change that Labour says will put another hurdle before teenagers in poorer communities.

An Auckland “all-rounder” has been named the country’s top scholar for 2014.

The head of IT at an Auckland school has given evidence that a teacher was looking at pornographic websites on a school computer.

The sight of a well-respected teacher allegedly masturbating to pornography in a school classroom left a student nervous and shaking.

A defence lawyer has accused schoolboy of "making up a story for his mates" in the trial of a former teacher.

Three of Auckland's biggest public high schools are seeking to build international student hostels on site so they can boost numbers and reap the financial rewards.

The Auditor-General, Lyn Provost, took no pleasure in issuing a disturbing report on the Whanau Ora scheme this week.

More than 150 schools nationwide have challenged their new decile ratings - controversially announced by the Government last November.

A teachers' organisation says a leaked document shows New Zealand has joined a group of countries pushing for education to be included in a murky trade deal.

High schools are warning students off an anonymous messaging app described as a "virtual bathroom wall".

Millions of dollars allocated to help vulnerable families could have been spent on people rather than administration, the Auditor-General says.

An Auckland girls’ school has banned an anonymous messaging app, after students reported problems with bullying and nasty comments.