Members of a school 1st XV with a booze "culture" were left to drink unsupervised for three hours in London on the night a teen sleepwalked to his death.

Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.

Quick-thinking staff are being praised after a knife was pulled during an altercation at a Hamilton school this morning.

Police are investigating claims parents have organised after-school fights between Northland teenagers to settle playground disputes.

The number of known leaking schools is now 145, double the estimate in September last year. The worst will benefit from $82 million allocated in the Budget for remedial work in the next year.

A teaching method for caregivers of children from broken homes is "a bit like Supernanny" says the boss of a scheme aimed at coaching foster parents.

New research suggests cannabis use is dumbing down young people.

A Gisborne school community is reeling from the tragic loss of a student, after an 11-year-old died in a freak accident on Wednesday night.

Bill English has delivered a Budget in which he can have a bob each way, writes Audrey Young.