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Polytech rolls flat despite free fees
Free student fees may have stopped the decline in polytech rolls, but numbers are static.
Customer service focus of free course
Graduates and employers are impressed with a free customer service training programme.
Whitecliffe Art School sold to Fiji-born entrepreneur
New owner will expand into training for ICT, teachers and trades in Northland and regions.
Second measles case in Auckland confirmed
AUT student contracted disease after travelling on a Singapore Airlines flight last month.
William Lewis: Fees-free scheme an untargeted mistake
COMMENT: We deserve so much more than a clumsy, expensive, untargeted train wreck.
Review of inquiry into Wintec CEO begins
The review is being led by high-profile Wellington-based lawyer QC Victoria Casey.
Education Minister on polytechs: 'There will be change'
Competitive model a failed ideological experiment of previous government, says Hipkins.
Competitive tertiary funding model expelled
From 2019 the $135 million funding will return to being based on student enrolments.
Four out of five polytechnics face losses by 2022
Polytech and vocational training leaders meet in Manukau tomorrow to map a survival plan.
$33m bailout for Tai Poutini Polytechnic
The West Coast polytechnic needs substantial change says Education Minister Chris Hipkins.
The triplets that each won a scholarship to AUT
Triplets, Roselle, Chloe and Chanel Samaratunga, have all won scholarships to attend AUT in 2018. Video/Dean Purcell
Exclusive: Auckland will be short of 3000 teachers by 2027
Top secondary teachers' pay scale would have to jump 36 per cent to restore real 1979 pay.
Wattle be next — regional council whips up weed icecream
Wattle seeds were just for the birds . . . until someone came up with wattle icecream.
Free uni fees push students to courses they 'won't pass'
Universities want the Government to stump up with extra cash.
Wide-ranging reforms for schools announced
Education summits in May will kick off wide-ranging reforms.
Information sought post charter schools decision
Amendment bill aims to bring charter schools back in to the state system.
Whangarei charter school hopeful for future
Whangarei's Te Kapehu Whetu school is not fazed by Govt intention to end charter schools.
College faces second review in two years
The contract for Waikato Pathways College at Waikato University is to be reviewed again.
'Gestapo' tactics claim in school closure
Fifteen staff are jobless and 145 international students have to move to another school.
'Wake up' call over NZ students' decline
Fewer NZ children from poorer backgrounds are "beating the odds" to succeed at school.
NZ Poet Laureate shares taonga with Haumoana artist
NZ Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh has been writing in Hawke's Bay.
Editorial : Fix the teacher shortage
EDITORIAL: We need to entice more graduates into school teaching.
Back-to-school costs bite twice
Families struggling with back-to-school costs are getting further stung by payday lenders.
Nursing student on why she chose career
Sam Menezes talks to the Herald about why she chose to study nursing at the University of Auckland. Video/Greg Bowker
Students switch to health, engineering
Students switching from BA and BCom degrees to more job-rich fields such as IT.
No pass for Intueri Education
OPINION: Investors deserve far higher standards than failed NZX company delivered.
Education provider's data breached Act
An education provider incorrectly extended course end dates, skewing completion rates.