The average student is in $21,000 of debt, which will take them more than eight years to pay off.

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.

COMMENT: With the loan mountain now hovering around sixteen billion dollars there's little any Government can now do but collect it, writes Barry Soper.

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.

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

A negative experience can stimulate enlightenment; it can reveal the best way forward and motivate you towards it

Some teens know exactly what they want to do with their lives. For others, it can be difficult to decide which career path to follow, writes Louise Richardson

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.

It's exam season and time to employ old student standbys - procrastination and distraction, writes an expert in the subject, Julie Cleaver.

"Bro culture" in many workplaces that pay men more than women means that one law student is entering the workforce with apprehension.

Evidence has emerged showing the grades of boys are finally catching up with girls' since a radical overhaul of the secondary school exam system.

Designated staff members should be specially trained to restrain violent and unruly pupils, a leading secondary school principal says.

Little Devon Roke was turned down by three early childhood education centres before BestStart's ABC Waterview agreed to enrol him.

It was announced on the Capone's and Boogie Nites Facebook pages that the bars were closed yesterday morning.