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.

Student numbers are expected to increase at the University of Otago next year, turning around three years of declining enrolments at the institution.

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.

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.

Leading universities from the United States are launching an unprecedented bid to attract Kiwi students.

Thanks to the internet, everyone can now get a free education at the world's top tertiary institutions. Does this mean the end for higher learning or a new beginning?

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.

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.

'I think they thought they could just rock up and have a yarn.' Tertiary Education Commission fails to impress Maori Affairs committee members.

A hardline Government policy to recoup student loan debt by arresting serious defaulters at the border has proved popular in a Herald-DigiPoll survey.

Students from poor backgrounds could have places reserved for them at the country's largest university in a shake-up of admissions currently targeted according to ethnicity.

A new OECD report makes grim reading for tertiary graduates - they can expect to earn far less than those in other developed countries.

Acting Secretary for Education Peter Hughes has been appointed head of the Ministry of Education.