NZ unis mostly up in world rankings, but teacher cuts biting
Kiwi graduates highly desirable, but teacher cuts holding local unis back, report says.
Kiwi graduates highly desirable, but teacher cuts holding local unis back, report says.
From solving Sudoku puzzles at age 2 and starting uni at 13 - Tristan Pang moves fast.
Diane Glennie was an early school dropout but went back to study and began teaching at 43.
Mark Flowers says the last few years have been "challenging".
NZQA prosecuted a school and its director over falsely representing its courses.
New manager Mel Shaw is preparing to launch new courses and received $10,000 from UCOL.
Consequences for wider Pacific community could be enormous, says researcher.
Wade Callum could barely run 100m without having a break when he started the course.
She completed her final exam at Harvard Law School while she was in labour.
For the past 10 years, Francesco Bellomo sat on one of Italy's highest courts.
Many of today's jobs will cease to exist in the years ahead but we needn't panic.
Comment: How do we want to make a living? Is our default that everything is a hassle?
Labour's plan to slash foreign student numbers could result in the loss of 10,000 jobs.
Student loan defaulters stump up nearly $5m, thanks to help from Aussie tax officials.
Even a few errors can hurt a student's marks or sink a job application, says Tom Nicholson
Prisoners at Rimutaka Prison today received certificates for improving their reading and writing.
The University of Canterbury has revealed its new post-earthquake design.
Women are being branded an untapped resource in filling the national trades shortage, as a new company seeks to get women into the construction industry.
Concerns that students who could potentially be quality vets are being turned away has prompted Massey Uni to give the qualification a major overhaul.
A Kiwi academic who jokingly wrote a research paper written by Apple's iOS autocomplete has been accepted to present his findings at a nuclear physics conference.
Dr Robert Sanders's view in his opinion article "What is Chinese?" is correct but only in a limited sense, writes Raymond Huo.
It is a well-worn cliché in China that one often only needs to travel a very short distance from one village to another to discover that that you can no longer understand what is being said.
A former army major will graduate tomorrow for the third time as the oldest of a record number of University of Auckland students.
September is early spring in New Zealand and is "Golden Autumn" in China.
Ambitious building plans by Manukau Institute of Technology that would have transformed its campuses will likely not begin for at least 10 years.
We don't talk enough about how fantastic mature-aged university students are, thinks Verity Johnson.
Prisoners at New Zealand's newest jail will get tablet computers, as well as in-cell desktop screens, if they enrol in Open Polytechnic courses.
Frustrated by the glacial pace of academic research, Daniel Johnston and Andrew Preston decided to propel scientific publishing into the 21st century.
Auckland is a great place - but it can be even better. In the second of our five-part Future Auckland series we aim to stimulate debate. Teuila Fuatai reports.
The Government has signed up the first schools to take part in its flagship education scheme. One union says relatively low interest shows teachers and parents are not on board.