A ''feral'' student party in Stafford St in Dunedin yesterday was shut down by police, amid concerns for the safety of intoxicated people climbing on the outside of a three-storey flat.

Calls are being made to remove dissections from first-year courses as the killing of animals at universities comes under fresh scrutiny.

We face an interesting irony when it comes to applied tertiary education.

The Tertiary Education Commission has today revealed the six Centres of Research Excellence (CoRES) which will get access to millions of dollars in funding.

The current attempt by the Minister of Tertiary Education, Steven Joyce, to whip the country's universities into line.

Editorial: Eighteen months ago, Steven Joyce had a warning for the country's universities saying he was "more than willing" for the Government to be more directive.

Students buying assignments, forging signatures, and using phones in exams were among more than 540 cases of cheating dealt with by universities last year.

Hundreds of millions of dollars being pumped into Asian universities are one reason Australasian institutions have dropped in international rankings.

New Te Wananga o Aotearoa boss Jim Mather has big plans for the tertiary organisation he took the helm of in October.

There will be less chance of dodgy teachers resurfacing at other schools under legislation to be introduced in Parliament today, Education Minister Hekia Parata says.

Steven Joyce has made himself into the Minister for All Things Large & Little. It seems that no sector of the economy is safe from his reforming zeal, writes Tim Hazledine.

Auckland Uni is at risk of slipping from a "storehouse of knowledge to a foreign warehouse" as it is increasingly catering for international students at the potential expense of NZers, says Shane Jones.

More investment needs to go into the country's universities if they're to move higher up a list ranking the world's institutions, the head of Auckland University says.

Building stronger links with industry to enable students to leave university with skills employers want will be a focus of a new tertiary education strategy announced today.

International students are paying tens of thousands of dollars to attend our state schools - funding that is crucial to lessons, teacher development and other support for locals.

One of the most prestigious universities on the planet has apologised after accidentally emailing a list of poorly performing students' marks to their peers.

Safety barriers have been installed in the Auckland University building where two people have fallen to their deaths.

Auckland Council is paying $60.7 million for Auckland University's home for cricket and rugby.

This week, Fiapaipai Tanea-Sakuma proudly graduated as the only female Samoan student in her class.

A racing car designed by New Zealand students that can accelerate from standstill to 100km/h in under four seconds has won an international engineering award.

NZ risks the loss of an "informed and thoughtful citizenry" if the benefits of an arts degree continue to be marginalised, the nation's largest arts faculty warns.

Kelsen Findlay remembers the sense of awe he and classmates had at the start of their degree that one of their peers had scored an internship at Saatchi & Saatchi, Auckland.

The radical restructuring of Unitec's design and visual arts department has mystified many who took part in a quality assurance review of the school last year.

A radical new teaching model has sparked fears of creative decline at one of our most successful visual art schools.

Unis say high school students are coming to them under-prepared and with a poor work ethic - and they blame the NCEA system.