Tertiary students say an extra $20 a week in housing grants will help pay for bus fares.

Some tertiary students are going hungry as living costs are outrunning grants.

Former Christchurch head boy whose school speech went viral talks about life after cancer.

Lecturer says Unitec prioritised "Saudi Arabian money" by passing students who cheated.

However, the school says it has not made cuts to its counselling service.

A former MIT lecturer said he resigned in protest when the student was not disciplined.

Academics say they're being told to pass incompetent students so they keep paying fees.

It's no secret that grafting for three years for a mortar board and scroll with some letters is an expensive business.

Labour leader will make a last-ditch appeal to the Government not to deport a group of Indian students over fraudulent documents submitted by their immigration agents.

Just one determined student turned up for the afternoon exams at Kaikoura High School today.

Inland Revenue says it's in talks with foreign tax departments as it steps up efforts to recover money owed by overseas-based student loan borrowers.

Steven Joyce talks about a new arrangement with Australia allowing the government to find defaulters overseas

Some of the procedures that medical students admitted to performing unsupervised included cyst removal, puncturing veins and stitching up wounds.

Landlords of several student flats on Dunedin's Castle St have found themselves in hot water following a government investigation into rental housing standards.

Indian students facing deportation for immigration fraud targeted Indian-born National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi in a noisy protest

How to lose friends and alienate people: Send a list of demands to your new roomates, before you've even met them.

Thailand is New Zealand's sixth largest source of international students, with about 3000 students arriving here every year.

More than 20,000 students are missing out on student allowances because of tighter eligibility rules since 2010, a new report says.

Labour's education spokesman Chris Hipkins said the surge in international students has been caused by the Government relaxing English language requirements in 2013.

About 3000 chanting students survived an attack by slingshot-wielding young men who pelted them with eggs and water balloons as they lined up for the annual Otago University Students' Association toga party last night.

There was a large police presence and a number of arrests made.

COMMENT: Sharing a room was possibly the best thing that ever happened to me. So give your room-mate a chance. You never know, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Nearly 7000 aspiring artists packed into a convention centre to fight for a place at a Chinese art university.

Feel-good soap can't fix back-to-school challenges, so it's up to us now, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

A Kiwi living overseas who ignored requests to repay his student loan has been arrested at the New Zealand border after returning home for a visit. Should overseas student loan dodgers be arrested on return?

With the beginning of the school year just weeks away the cost and quality of school uniforms will be a hot topic with parents.

Defaulted on your student loan before heading overseas? Then the Inland Revenue has a Christmas message for you.

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