Puti Crawford is one of 1100 students graduating from Hamilton's Wintec tomorrow, but none of the others had to overcome such exceptional personal circumstances.

More than 350 young people have signed on as building apprentices since a $2000 bonus became available last Wednesday for the first 10,000 apprentices who sign up.

All eight of New Zealand's universities are being taken to the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal for refusing to agree to an increased annual licence fee which allows lecturers to copy authors' work for students.

Regional polytechnics are important to their communities, and the National-led government is underfunding them, two Labour politicians say.

In a positive development for Dunedin's tertiary education industry, Otago Polytechnic predicts higher student numbers later this year.

Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders will be hit in the pocket by sweeping changes to student loan repayments on April 1.

Orthopaedic house surgeon David Choi, 24, works more than 12 hours a day tending to trauma patients with broken bones at Auckland City Hospital, but is also

The country's medical schools are lending support to a music teacher who has sounded an alarm over talented students ditching arts to pursue science studies.

Expert earthquake engineers will be trained in Christchurch to help with the $30 billion rebuild, it was announced today.

Doctorate degrees can earn graduates more than double the national median wage five years after capping, a Ministry of Education report has found.

Student allowances are now a thing of the past for New Zealand's post graduate students.

New Zealand universities have spent more than $250,000 dishing out honorary degrees to celebrities and visiting dignitaries, a Herald investigation into the eight institutions has found.

It's time to realign our educational aspirations with economic reality.

Editorial: Steven Joyce is not the first Tertiary Education Minister to be frustrated by the discrepancy between the courses offered by universities and what the country needs.

It is the consequence of decades of government indifference to education and will take at least a generation to fix, writes Peter Fenwick.

A Pacific community leader has warned of a "Pasifika uprising" if the Government forces Auckland University to take more engineering students.

As students look to next year, the Herald begins a week-long investigation into why so many are leaving school without the skills they need.

Auckland University and the Government appear headed for a showdown over what courses the university is offering.

The charter schools advisory group wants those who have no teaching qualifications to be given official registration - a call at odds with Govt policy.

The Cambridge exam system is under spotlight as prestigious schools are called to meeting with the country's largest university.

A man caught posing as a medical student at Auckland University is said to be so distressed there are concerns for his health.