If teacher performance is to be based on student assessments it is likely to be subject to numerous rorts and manipulations, writes Peter Lyons. It is also likely to narrow the focus of teaching to ensuring assessment results rather than broader learning.
The country's largest university is bankrolling the official name change of transgender students to avoid them being accidentally outed in class.
Manukau Institute of Technology is holding a computer programming competition for schoolgirls aimed at tackling the lagging number of women working in the ICT sector.
A researcher's tireless efforts to ensure every Kiwi can have a safe, warm and dry home has been rewarded with the country's largest prize for science.
Hundreds of tertiary students and graduates are taking advantage of an exchange programme visa encouraging New Zealanders to get a taste of living the American dream.
A probe that has already uncovered nearly $10 million in misappropriated tertiary funding is to be expanded to include a dozen suspect programmes around the country.
Partnered content: Many stroke survivors who regain the ability to walk in hospital struggle to maintain the same level of mobility once they return home.
Partnered content: New Zealand companies may be affected negatively by the phenomenon of 'directors’ networks', according to a new AUT study.
More than half a century lies between them, but the youngest and oldest students graduating from the University of Auckland both have a secret.
Research funding from the dairying and soft drink industries could be declined on ethical grounds under proposals being worked through by the University of Canterbury.
The University of Auckland has made it into the 2014 Green Gown Awards, which recognise excellence in sustainability and environmental performance improvement.
All tertiary students would be paid a universal student allowance and also have the cost of their course fees paid under an Internet Mana Party policy.
The Warriors have been drawn into an investigation into the use of tertiary education funding on the eve of the club's biggest game of the season.
Internet-Mana press secretary Pam Corkery offered to resign after swearing at journalists at the party's launch, but she says she won't apologise to the reporters.
Kim Dotcom says he's not behind the hacking of the Whale Oil blog, and he's not paid out any of a $5m bounty he'd offered for information to help his legal case.
The Internet Mana party launched their campaign with a promise to create 50,000 jobs - but the message was overshadowed by a tirade from press secretary Pam Corkery.
Kim Dotcom was hailed as "New Zealand's newest super hero" as the Internet Mana Party kicked of its campaign today.
There are advantages in having a chest infection. For instance, I can get a husky 30s jazz singer drawl, without smoking my way to an early death before I can pay off my student debt.
New Zealanders would rather money was spent on improving teaching standards than on reducing class sizes, a Herald-DigiPoll survey reveals.
A refugee from Afghanistan who arrived in the country without being able to speak a word of English came third in a spelling bee just five years after arriving and is now studying political science.
Grace Eriksen, 18, is in her first year of university and reaping the rewards of three years of saving.
One thing I believe all students have in common is that we want to walk out university with a career especially because being a student these days is a significant investment.
Labour wants to end "voluntary" school donations by offering a grants of $100 per student to schools that stop asking parents to fund "day to day" spending.
A new $100 million tertiary campus opens in Manukau today - with backers hoping it will not just transform the central business district but also the area's study rates.
Unitec's controversial housing development plans for its 53.5ha Mt Albert site show the Mason Clinic psychiatric facility gone and replaced by apartments and townhouses.
The historic, orange brick ex-Carrington Psychiatric Hospital as heritage apartments, pedestrian and cycle links, hundreds of new residents is the vision.
New Zealand women are earning thousands of dollars less than their male counterparts just five years after graduation, a report reveals.
It is easy to dismiss evening classes as a diversion for middle-aged folk escaping the tedium of endless reality cooking shows, writes Peter Lyons. But these classes were more than yoga for the aged,