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New city schools won't have sports fields
Exclusive: A new type of school without playing fields is being proposed for urban areas.

Drone pics lead to 3D Scott Base model
Hundreds of images taken from the air have helped to recreate NZ base at Antarctica.

Report slams Kiwi mental health services
Report claims mental health service users feel the system is dismissive and dehumanising.

'Largest pay increase in NZ history'
The Government's low-paid carer deal will benefit 55,000 workers and cost $2 billion.

AT looks at streamlining 'terrible process'
Auckland Transport is looking at simplifying how it loads student discounts on Hop Cards.

Disobedient teacher broke all the rules
Welby Ings believes teachers need to disobey rules to help students believe in themselves.

'Student cheated three times and passed'
A former MIT lecturer said he resigned in protest when the student was not disciplined.

Kiwi scientists can improve world's GPS
Kiwi scientists say New Zealand technology can improve the accuracy of GPS.

New AUT European Association set up
AUT says New Zealand European Association isn't sanctioned by the university.

Blindness bars top graduate from jobs
Top marketing graduate Kyal Little is still looking for a job 18 months after graduating - because he hasn't yet found an employer

Immigrant millennials over-represented in low-paying jobs
Despite having better work ethics, refugee and immigrant millennials (RIM) still struggle to get good jobs in New Zealand, a study has found.

Watch: Drones spy on NZ volcanoes
Kiwi scientists could soon have a new way to safely get an up-close look at erupting volcanoes: send in the drone.

Educators back compulsory Māori
The two teacher unions, School Trustees Association and even the conservative Maxim Institute all backed the policy.

Demand for female sex pill
Nearly two thirds of women would pop a female 'Viagra' to boost their sex life - and some want the effects to last for more than 24 hours

Try to save your rage for big stage
COMMENT: This week I am cranky; spicy, radishy, salty, swashbuckling. Here's a quick and dirty summary of a few of the arguments I have had.

NZ study probes rugby brain health legacy
Kiwi scientists have published another study exploring links between concussions suffered while playing rugby and long-term impacts on brain function.

Have a merry different Christmas
New Zealand Christmas dinner is not just about ham and turkey, but kimchi, lechon and tequila too, a Massey University sociologist says.

Career-ending injury leads to new career
Dancer Kimiora Grey suffered a career-ending knee injury but is now turning that into a career in physiotherapy.

3 sisters graduating with same degree
Cambodian sisters credit Pasifika education qualification for connecting them to their own cultural roots.

More NZ cash for science mega-project
New Zealand is pumping more cash into the world's most ambitious science and IT project, bringing its investment in the gigantic Square Kilometre Array to more than $2 million.

Early start for followers of fashion
At 2.30 this morning Aneeqah Jacobs got out of bed, showered, dressed, made breakfast and painstakingly applied her makeup.

Will we find alien life this century?
A scientist shares five reasons we might find alien life this century - and five we reasons we might not.

Revealed: The secret life of graduates
Life after university can mean more wealth and health, but challenges remain.

AUT rated NZ's 'most international' uni
Auckland University of Technology has outranked its more established neighbours to be rated the country's "most international" university.

Students and the P word
It's exam season and time to employ old student standbys - procrastination and distraction, writes an expert in the subject, Julie Cleaver.

Hato Petera old boys lodge land claim
Old boys of troubled Auckland Catholic co-ed boarding school Hato Petera have lodged a Treaty of Waitangi claim on the property and surrounding land.

Kiwis lose touch with their neighbours
New research has found that only four per cent of New Zealanders agreed they felt close to people in their local area.