Places at many popular universities will be restricted next year to students who gain top marks at high school.

Dunedin student pub The Garden Tavern, known as Gardies, will close its doors for the final time this weekend after being sold to Otago University this year.

A radical plan for cut-price degrees has been outlined in the UK as a means of solving higher education's economic woes.

A university lecturer has embraced Wikipedia as part of her teaching after initially shunning the online encyclopedia.

The education sector has had to come up with more than half of the $1.9 billion to fund new education initiatives over the next four years.

The number of young people aged 20 to 24 with no income almost trebled between 1996 and 2006, according to new figures.

The Govt can afford interest-free student loans but there needs to be more respect for taxpayer funding, John Key says.

NZ has one of the highest school dropout rates, with the sixth-lowest high-school completion rate in the developed world, a report has found.