The education sector has had to come up with more than half of the $1.9 billion to fund new education initiatives over the next four years.

The Govt's decision to remove recognition for fully qualified centres 'dumbs down' the sector, early childhood educators say.

Turnover rates at some schools are sitting at around 56 per cent - more than half of the children who start the year don't finish there.

Our neediest teenagers are often being educated in "Third World" conditions without trained teachers, textbooks or standard school services.

Half of New Zealanders support the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools, according to a national survey of 1000 people.

A small stencil used by Sir Edmund Hillary to mark crates for one of his expeditions is likely to go on show in the Hillary family home.

A boy who stabbed his teacher four times with a knife had been bullied by other pupils, his family say.

"Where is the zapper?" is as constant a question in our house as "where are your shoes?"

The number of young people aged 20 to 24 with no income almost trebled between 1996 and 2006, according to new figures.