Universities fear upcoming reforms could force them to produce graduates to a state-controlled master plan. The Government says it's just trying to make the current system work better.

Workshop aims to equip school-leavers with basic grasp of 'worldly skills

Mentor says helping young students has proven to be a two-way exchange.

Warring between MediaWorks' radio and TV arms has calmed since new owners took over in November, writes John Drinnan.

Hundreds of millions of dollars being pumped into Asian universities are one reason Australasian institutions have dropped in international rankings.

A naturally thin student has won a battle with Yale University after refusing to force-feed herself with junk food to prove she was not suffering from an eating disorder.

Phillipstown principal Tony Simpson said the community was "very disappointed" at today's news, after the decision to combine Phillipstown & Woolston School to create a 465-child super-school, which comes as part of the Government's $1 billion shake-up of post-earthquake Christchurch schools.

Primary teachers’ union NZEI said tonight its members were not happy about having the new $360 million school leadership package sprung on them.

New Te Wananga o Aotearoa boss Jim Mather has big plans for the tertiary organisation he took the helm of in October.

Granny nannies are on the rise as parents seek out more experienced carers - in some cases to fill the role of absent grandparents.

If a sharp drop in the Pisa rankings represented a sobering judgment on this country's education system, not all is doom and gloom.

Taking students back to their roots has proven to be a winning ingredient at Hamilton Boys' High.

A little over six years ago, Selwyn College in Auckland was struggling.

Kwasi Enin, 17, the son of immigrant nurses from Ghana, has become the first person to be accepted to all eight Ivy League universities.

The headmaster turned up the other day with the local MP. I was sitting down the back of the staffroom.

The Government has introduced into Parliament legislation that will significantly threaten the autonomy and international reputation of our universities, writes Stuart McCutcheon.

If proof was ever needed that forecast growth in Auckland's population will present challenges, it is to be found in the pressure on school rolls.

Microsoft is sponsoring Kiwi schools to train up the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg — but some teachers are uncomfortable with big corporates guiding the curriculum.

There were tears at a Dunedin private school yesterday as principal Melissa Bell, who last year recovered from aggressive breast cancer, announced her resignation.

Two key players in the $90k Ernst & Young review of Te Kohanga Reo National Trust have contradictory views about what the terms of reference allowed the review to do.

Twin brothers Maui and Mihaka Hohua say they got into carpentry to repair their Kawhia home which needs a bit done to it.

A $200,000 scholarship to study music at Cambridge University is a dream come true for student Paul Newton-Jackson.

Schools in poorer communities are shrinking as local families abandon them for those in wealthier suburbs.

Labour leader David Cunliffe yesterday welcomed a move by the Kohanga Reo National Trust to revamp its governance structure as a step towards regaining public confidence.

Sometimes, scandal and the game of league appear to be inextricably linked. But now the rugby union is checking to see if it has a problem.

Radical measures are on the cards to cope with a huge increase in the number of school-age children in Auckland as already full schools struggle to cope.