Incidents such as the "Roast Busters" case show sex education needs to be more than a component of the health and physical education curriculum.

New guidelines for sex education will be released in a few weeks, but the Govt will shy away from ordering schools to teach more than basic biology.

Educators say biology classes are no longer enough for teens navigating a world where porn, explicit music videos and online hook-ups are the norm.

A primary school lost more than 55 teachers in four years - but got a government inspector's tick of approval.

Evolve Education Group, which will raise $132 million through a transtasman sharemarket listing next month, has flagged changes to government funding for early childhood care as one of the main risks its business faces.

Childcare roll-up Evolve Education Group has set the price for its initial public offer at $1 per share giving it a market share of $177 million.

Georgia Webber had "butterflies" in her stomach when she turned up for her first NCEA exam this week.

The Ministry of Education has begun informing schools of their new decile ratings and at least one Auckland school will need to rely more on parent fundraising as a result.

Mike Hosking writes: One of the things you get used to very quickly when you grow up in Christchurch is that people believe the role of the school in your life defines who you are.

A teenage girl started self-harming and needed counselling after having an intimate relationship with a disgraced teacher.

Exam time is here for thousands of students across the country. Before the summer fun starts, now is the time do get that last minute revision done.

More than 400 performing arts students at Taranaki’s Western Institute of Technology face being stripped of their qualifications, caught up in a funding probe.

Plenty of improvement but still much to work on - the New Zealand schooling sector has been given its annual report card.

Peter Lyons writes: Politicians work in three-year time horizons but meaningful change, especially in education, is unlikely to reap benefits within an electoral cycle.

The Prime Minister recently made two announcements which appear worlds away but are intrinsically linked: making child poverty his priority this term, and attracting skilled people to New Zealand to enable continued economic growth.

Herald interactive on school deciles confirmation of growing socio-economic divide in this country and that "poverty" is a real rather than imagined issue.

Thousands of students across the country will sit their first NCEA exam this morning.

Parents tell their views on school choice after we reveal the number of Pakeha children in schools in poorer communities has halved since mid-1990s.

St Kentigern School has set the challenge to other schools to get behind fundraising for Kiwi inventor Sir Ray Avery's LifePod incubators.

Some schools are braced for funding cuts in the tens of thousands of dollars as the wealth of their families is re-assessed.

Picturesque grounds, prime Greytown location, and 500 students - and it can all be yours, according to a fancy real estate sign.

There are about 17,600 universities in the world, with new ones added every year.

Teachers entitled to 24 months' maternity leave can take another two years off if they fall pregnant again while on leave, in a decision called a "win for women".