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.

The Government is providing $10.5 million in extra school funding to improve student achievement in maths and science.

New Zealand is among the top 10 best places to be a woman, according to a worldwide report on gender equality.

New graduates with dreams of earning big bucks when they finally enter the workforce need to be realistic about their starting wage and to be clever about what topics they choose to study, recruitment experts say.

Low-quality education providers will face the axe and universities and schools considered "high quality" will enjoy privileges, including the ability to offer prioritised visa processing to students.

Working at McDonald's will gain credits towards a university degree in a deal between the fast-food giant and Massey University.

New Zealand's sole representative on an international list of the top 200 universities has slipped, rankings show.

Older long-term unemployed people look set to lose out in a radical reshuffle of foundation education which will give higher priority to young people.

University students will start to sit exams online from their own home or office under a remote monitoring system being tested this year by Massey University.

According to the OECD, New Zealanders waste a lot of time and money on tertiary education.

School leavers are being urged to take advantage of competition between universities as one offers up to $3000 cash for those with high marks in NCEA.

When it comes to fixing skills shortages in IT, engineering, technology and trades, 73.8 per cent of those who responded to the Herald's CEO survey wanted to see more funding for tertiary education.

An Otago student who nearly died after swallowing his own vomit during a drinking game is among examples being used to put students off such practices.

While commerce and accounting graduates may have trouble finding entry jobs in their field, AUT University graduates in hospitality have a number of options.

Auckland University of Technology's Manukau campus will be expanded to allow the number of students to more than quadruple by 2020, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce announced today.

Promising Maori academics are being given a hand to study in some of the world's leading universities - with a dash of magic thrown in.

More New Zealand employers are ignoring candidates with the best university grades in favour of those who clearly demonstrate skills, a conference has heard.