Principals seek clarity on discipline
School principals uncertain about their right to discipline international students have asked the Ministry of Education to clear up confusion.
School principals uncertain about their right to discipline international students have asked the Ministry of Education to clear up confusion.
Universities to set up three Asia-Pacific centres of excellence.
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.
COMMENT: Does tertiary education needs a new approach?
COMMENT: Last week's Budget had some wins for our kind of education - that is on-the-job training for skills and qualifications.
Exclusive: The woman was arrested at Auckland Airport as she tried to board a flight to Australia on Tuesday, the Herald understands.
NZ's skills shortage was highlighted in the Budget yesterday with the Govt allocating $256.5m to promote tertiary education and apprenticeships.
You wouldn't think giving kids good career advice was an overly difficult job; and yet, here we are.
The University of Otago has announced plans for a new $50 million, five-storey animal research facility to be built at an undisclosed location.
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce and Indian President Pranab Mukherjee announced the creation of the New Zealand Excellence Awards at Auckland University of Technology.
COMMENT: Are our universities out of control? Have they lost sight of their core missions? Do they know what they are doing?
An Australian university rejected claims it's trying to rewrite the nation's colonial history after encouraging students to use the term "invaded."
The editor of Massive is standing by his controversial cover, while Massey Student Association is disavowing it.
Nina Jeffs, 17, scooped the Girdlers' Scholarship to the University of Cambridge - the only New Zealander to do so, as only one is granted per year.
Sir Neville Jordan asked salient to apologize for their satirical article on him, now Massey's mag is saying he died from a lack of humour.
Employers are among the stakeholders the Productivity Commission wants to hear from as it sets about a wide-ranging inquiry into tertiary education.
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 is plenty of evidence that not only shows the value Indian students place on receiving a NZ education, but also the value Indian international students are adding to NZ, writes Darryn Melrose.
The case for sparing the taxpayer the cost of tertiary education by applying a "user pays" principle looks pretty shaky when the user and the taxpayer are the same people, writes Bryan Gould.
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says Labour's new no-fees policy will take from the poor to give to those studying for lucrative jobs.
Auckland moved up four places from last year and is the only New Zealand city to make the top 20.
Search and rescue volunteers say they completed a five-month taxpayer-funded training course at a polytechnic in one week.
The Government has dropped a strong hint that it is set to announce changes to give more medical students access to student loans in their final years of study.
In 1995, a year after my return to New Zealand to take up the Vice-Chancellorship of Waikato University, I was invited to lead a delegation to visit universities in China - the first such invitation....
Academic staff at AUT have ended a strike that caused a delay in the release of students' final grades.
Immigration officials are warning New Zealand's reputation as a destination for international students is at risk from Indian student exploitation.