The move is the latest in the government's strategy to hunt down borrowers living overseas and get them to pay up.

Ant poisoning, mindless retail jobs, summer school - Julie Cleaver says spare a thought for the hard-working students this summer, because they probably won't post about it on Instagram.

COMMENT: NZ children will continue to live unequal lives until such time as an education minister has the full support of colleagues, writes John Clark.

Teenage football star Grace Jale is off to Brazil with the Football Ferns, but first ... exams.

Investigations into six tertiary institutions, from Southland to the Bay of Plenty, have identified more than $25 million in misappropriation. One of them, we reported this week, has been stripped of its registration.

Ministry of Education staff tried to mitigate the impact of an unfavourable report by sourcing good news stories and crafting a communications "narrative" during "war-room" meetings before its release.

The Government plans to chase down $1.8 million still owed by teachers who were overpaid from 2012 - 2014 because of problems with Novopay.

Nearly 2000 school staff owing $1.8m have made no effort to return their excess taxpayer money.

The revelation comes on the same day as an urgent need to address delays in support for our youngest kids was highlighted.

A push to help youth into jobs has seen more than 150 young people participate in a round of speed-interviewing today - with half expected to be offered positions.

In what the University of Otago has slammed as a "reprehensible act", 98 unmarked student exam scripts have been stolen in a burglary at the campus.

A war is being waged between Dunedin secondary schools, which are estimated to be spending big money on marketing to attract pupils.

A Rotorua-based performing arts college has been stripped of its registration and ordered to repay $2.6 million in taxpayer funding it wasn't entitled to.

Staff at a school in Canterbury used the school's defibrillator to help one of their colleagues who collapsed this morning.

We shouldn't just take it at as axiomatic that low decile means low achievement. What we need now is evidence. We need to work collegially and collectively across deciles, writes Barbara Ala'alatoa.

Illness has been a major factor in increasing numbers of children missing school.

My fellow columnist, broadcaster Jack Tame, says of children these days: we are "breeding them too soft".

School children could be taught to drive on class time and instructed in the language of computer coding under radical new proposals the Labour Party is considering.

A group of educators from Fraser High School in Hamilton are busting moves (and stereotypes) in a video posted on Facebook today, wishing their students the best for exams.

A major overhaul at Auckland tertiary education provider Unitec will see up to 300 jobs go, it has confirmed.

It is our education system, not the dyslexic child, that needs to be the focus of our attention. There is a better way, writes teacher Mark Brace.

A female teacher found guilty of sexual offending against a Wellington schoolboy is applying to keep her name secret.

Secondary school students around the country will be putting their learning to the test from today, as NCEA exams kick off.

Teachers' pay should contain a decile element to encourage them to stay where they are most needed. Decile funding, too, should be more heavily weighted to compensate.

Overcoming disadvantage is a tough ask. But it is a job schools are battling head-on as they seek to help all students achieve their potential.

What makes the biggest difference to a kid's education is something every kid and parent knows - the quality of the teaching in the classroom, writes Education Minister Hekia Parata

Bullrush will not be banned from a Christchurch school despite two students breaking bones during games this week.

New Zealand has known about the achievement gap between rich and poor for 25 years. And yet it persists. Where are we going wrong?