Three out of five charter schools are failing to meet minimum enrolment targets, but the Education Minister says there was still demand for the institutions.

Keith Shelley gets to work early. Really early. The gates don't open until 7.30, but he's outside by "six or five past, depending on the buses".

The Green Party would boost special education services in schools by $115 million if in government.

A multimillion-dollar business growth fund is set to begin investing in ambitious companies through a crowdfunding initiative.

The football coach who allowed a teenage girl to strip to her underwear on a busy street says he "completely and utterly" blames himself.

The Warriors have been drawn into an investigation into the use of tertiary education funding on the eve of the club's biggest game of the season.

Fewer children starting school can speak in sentences, prompting an investigation by education chiefs.

Auckland girls school takes action after girl, aged 14 or 15, stripped as part of a "sports initiation".

A girl who appeared to be a student from a private Auckland all-girls school stripped down to her underwear in the middle of a busy Rotorua street.

The New Zealand-wide lack of civic mindedness applies to all generations, not just my own, writes Lee Suckling. How could this be prevented, you ask? We might start by teaching civics.

Teacher Peter Lyons says he's finally learned a valuable lesson - life isn't fair, so he explains why he's decided to vote the right way this election.

Despite the building tension surrounding the election, the first major debate between party representatives on technology and innovation remained relatively civil.

New Zealand's expanding building industry has signed up its 9000th apprentice - but says it is running out of young people to fill the demand for more.

A NZ principal, due take the helm of one of the UK's most prestigious schools, will have to return home to defend allegations he assaulted his ex-wife.

Prime Minister John Key says National is likely to outline "a broad sense" of the conditions needed for tax cuts before the election, but no specific details.

A top Auckland private school has investigated allegations of racist remarks including the word n***** made by a student during a football match last weekend.

The rejection of the Government's flagship education policy by primary school teachers and principals was "sadly predictable" in an election year, according to Prime Minister John Key.

Despite decades of academic research, there is little agreement about the precise definition of entrepreneurship.

Primary school teachers and principals have voted overwhelmingly to reject the Government's flagship education policy.

How to improve what goes on in our schools has become a key election-year argument.

It was school meets Hell's Kitchen as top culinary students from around the country battled it out in Auckland yesterday.

The Greens say their policy of raising the top tax rate to generate close to $1b to tackle child poverty was not about penalising the rich but sharing the benefits.

Top model Grace Barcelos Owen graduated last week through AUT as a fully registered psychologist.

Kiwi school kids interested in computer programming are being forced to teach themselves as the education system fails to keep pace.

Destiny Church wants its private school to become part of the state system, which would earn it a large boost in taxpayer funding.

Hundreds of teachers will take a break from the classroom today to visit the type of workplaces that their students could end up in.