Academics say they're being told to pass incompetent students so they keep paying fees.

It's no secret that grafting for three years for a mortar board and scroll with some letters is an expensive business.

Labour leader will make a last-ditch appeal to the Government not to deport a group of Indian students over fraudulent documents submitted by their immigration agents.

Student tenants have paid thousands of dollars over summer for empty flats and apartments in a bid to secure their accommodation for 2017.

The average student is in $21,000 of debt, which will take them more than eight years to pay off.

Just one determined student turned up for the afternoon exams at Kaikoura High School today.

Inland Revenue says it's in talks with foreign tax departments as it steps up efforts to recover money owed by overseas-based student loan borrowers.

Steven Joyce talks about a new arrangement with Australia allowing the government to find defaulters overseas

Some of the procedures that medical students admitted to performing unsupervised included cyst removal, puncturing veins and stitching up wounds.

How to lose friends and alienate people: Send a list of demands to your new roomates, before you've even met them.

Thailand is New Zealand's sixth largest source of international students, with about 3000 students arriving here every year.

More than 20,000 students are missing out on student allowances because of tighter eligibility rules since 2010, a new report says.

Ten young New Zealand students are travelling to France in September to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.

COMMENT: With the loan mountain now hovering around sixteen billion dollars there's little any Government can now do but collect it, writes Barry Soper.

Labour's education spokesman Chris Hipkins said the surge in international students has been caused by the Government relaxing English language requirements in 2013.

About 3000 chanting students survived an attack by slingshot-wielding young men who pelted them with eggs and water balloons as they lined up for the annual Otago University Students' Association toga party last night.

There was a large police presence and a number of arrests made.

COMMENT: Sharing a room was possibly the best thing that ever happened to me. So give your room-mate a chance. You never know, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

A Kiwi living overseas who ignored requests to repay his student loan has been arrested at the New Zealand border after returning home for a visit. Should overseas student loan dodgers be arrested on return?

With the beginning of the school year just weeks away the cost and quality of school uniforms will be a hot topic with parents.

Defaulted on your student loan before heading overseas? Then the Inland Revenue has a Christmas message for you.

A multitude of scholarships are available for tertiary students but you've got to be in to win.

A negative experience can stimulate enlightenment; it can reveal the best way forward and motivate you towards it

Some teens know exactly what they want to do with their lives. For others, it can be difficult to decide which career path to follow, writes Louise Richardson

Ant poisoning, mindless retail jobs, summer school - Julie Cleaver says spare a thought for the hard-working students this summer, because they probably won't post about it on Instagram.

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

"Bro culture" in many workplaces that pay men more than women means that one law student is entering the workforce with apprehension.

Evidence has emerged showing the grades of boys are finally catching up with girls' since a radical overhaul of the secondary school exam system.