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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The man chosen as dean of the Dunedin School of Medicine says he will be leaving the job he loves so he can help others fulfil their potential.

Two New Zealand universities have been named in the top 100 tertiary institutions younger than 50-years-old.

The University of Otago needs to target international students more "aggressively" after having the largest decline in international numbers of any New Zealand university this year, Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says.

Australia has made a concession in its hardline policies denying expatriate New Zealanders access to government support and welfare programmes.