"It's not our core business to be a park. We're an education provider," says Unitec chief executive.

With NZ's education system dropping in world rankings, is our curriculum keeping pace with a rapidly-changing world and do enough children have full access to new technology?

A married maths teacher was discovered under the bed of a pupil he was having sex with by her mother, a court has heard.

Serious health and safety issues including drug use and bullying plagued one of New Zealand's first charter schools as its management became dysfunctional.

I reckon that single-sex schools and healthy cereal are the same phenomenon, writes Verity Johnson.

A new $100 million tertiary campus opens in Manukau today - with backers hoping it will not just transform the central business district but also the area's study rates.

Seeing her MP father's commitment and passion to help his Tongan people has inspired one young woman to overcome tragedy and follow his footsteps into politics.

Health services at more than one in 10 New Zealand schools have been found to consist of little more than the offer of a sticking plaster.

Boys who attend single-sex schools are more likely to leave with higher qualifications than their male counterparts at co-educational schools, according to new research.

The historic, orange brick ex-Carrington Psychiatric Hospital as heritage apartments, pedestrian and cycle links, hundreds of new residents is the vision.

Students who attend boys schools are more likely to leave with qualifications than their male counterparts at co-educational schools, according to new research.

A principal is flabbergasted at a decision to allow a liquor store to open in a former video parlour directly opposite his school in Mangere.

New Zealand university students are turning to potentially harmful drugs to get ahead in their studies, new research shows.

Attending an all-girls high-school or college can keep women on the technology track, a panel of women investors and executives said at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing Summit on Monday.

The Government's $359 million expert teachers policy has proved to be the latest in a series of "epic failures" in the education sector due to a lack of consultation with teachers.

It is easy to dismiss evening classes as a diversion for middle-aged folk escaping the tedium of endless reality cooking shows, writes Peter Lyons. But these classes were more than yoga for the aged,

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has released plans to restore some incentives for solo parents who take up full-time study.

A high school teacher caught altering student work and removing negative feedback about himself from student assessments has been deregistered by the professional watchdog.

A prominent New Zealand academic, priest and lawyer has been sacked from his UK professor's post.

Teaching methods will need to change if tertiary institutions expect to keep charging thousands for learning that is available free on the web, says an expert.

We have a national qualification that we can be proud of and it is disappointing a few people annually attempt to undermine it to promote alternatives, writes Dale Burden.

A Scottish Rudolf Steiner preschool teacher has been denied another temporary work visa by Immigration New Zealand because he is taking the job of a New Zealander.

In high school, I excelled in mathematics, chemistry and biology, writes Robert Greenberg. It seemed I was destined to fulfil the parental dream and pursue a career in medicine or, at the very least, in the natural sciences.

Thousands of school students are being awarded the wrong NCEA grades, a review of last year's results has revealed.

Six University of Canterbury students are taking part in what has been called a once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity.