The international education market is expected to face "minimal" impact following Monday's earthquake in Kaikoura.

A number of schools have been closed due to flooding, affecting some students due to sit exams after afternoon.

Students who sat a digital version of NCEA Level 1 English last week have been offered a derived grade following technical problems with the exam pilot.

Most schools will open tomorrow, following hundreds of closures after the quake.

Students at an Auckland school were 20 minutes into their history scholarship exam this morning before it was cancelled.

Concerns that students who could potentially be quality vets are being turned away has prompted Massey Uni to give the qualification a major overhaul.

Some technical issues hit students sitting the digital version of NCEA English Level 1 this morning.

A young Kiwi entrepreneur has put his study skills to the test and set up a business to help other students pass their exams.

Two New Zealand universities are among the top 100 in the world for these subjects...

COMMENT: It was a brave move of NZ unis last week to admit that they are not attracting enough of the brightest graduates to train as teachers.

A multitude of scholarships are available for tertiary students but you've got to be in to win.

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

The principal who introduced Cambridge exams to New Zealand says he believes the qualification still has a place here, as a top school opts out.

They're called NEET - not in employment, education or training - a pool of youth which numbers around 75,000 nationwide.

A university has been accused of buying influence after giving an honorary doctorate to the Chinese President's wife.

More Kiwis have formal qualifications, according to new census figures released today.

The national student union is hosting a series of conferences on tertiary education issues with students and staff.

Forcing students sitting scholarship exams to pay more per exam will just put another hurdle before teenagers in poorer communities, Labour says.

After a long wait, most high school students will be finding themselves face to face with their year's work as NCEA exam results are published today.

More than 400 performing arts students at Taranaki’s Western Institute of Technology face being stripped of their qualifications, caught up in a funding probe.

From restaurants to rocket-builders — businesses of all sorts share a common problem: Finding enough skilled staff. Anthony Doesburg reports.

In Degree Mills, Ezell and Bear cite a congressional committee's estimate from 1986 that there were more than 5,000 fake doctors practising in the U.S. The figure must be several times that by now.

James Newland is a little disappointed he only scraped a pass mark of 78 per cent in his latest physics exam. That is because he is top in the world at business studies.

NZ risks the loss of an "informed and thoughtful citizenry" if the benefits of an arts degree continue to be marginalised, the nation's largest arts faculty warns.

There won't be any changes to legislation around the controversial partnership schools despite opposition parties continuing their objections to elements of the bill.

An estimated 143,000 anxious students will sit NCEA exams tomorrow - if they all turn up. Last year 3000 missed their big day.

The nightmare that the Qualification Authority has had to live with over the past decade has been the media scrutiny of NCEA, writes Peter Lyons.