
Free fees: Student numbers jump in Waikato, Napier and Nelson but flat overall
Only two polytechnics report significantly more students this year despite free fees.
Only two polytechnics report significantly more students this year despite free fees.
Some students disappointed controversial camp cancelled.
Competitive model a failed ideological experiment of previous government, says Hipkins.
From 2019 the $135 million funding will return to being based on student enrolments.
Polytech and vocational training leaders meet in Manukau tomorrow to map a survival plan.
The West Coast polytechnic needs substantial change says Education Minister Chris Hipkins.
Triplets, Roselle, Chloe and Chanel Samaratunga, have all won scholarships to attend AUT in 2018. Video/Dean Purcell
Top secondary teachers' pay scale would have to jump 36 per cent to restore real 1979 pay.
Wattle seeds were just for the birds . . . until someone came up with wattle icecream.
COMMENT: 'Soft' skills of a general university degree are needed in today's careers too.
COMMENT: We are the generation of millennials hitting the dreaded "quarter-life crisis".
Amendment bill aims to bring charter schools back in to the state system.
Whangarei's Te Kapehu Whetu school is not fazed by Govt intention to end charter schools.
The contract for Waikato Pathways College at Waikato University is to be reviewed again.
Fifteen staff are jobless and 145 international students have to move to another school.
Fewer NZ children from poorer backgrounds are "beating the odds" to succeed at school.
NZ Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh has been writing in Hawke's Bay.
EDITORIAL: We need to entice more graduates into school teaching.
Students switching from BA and BCom degrees to more job-rich fields such as IT.
OPINION: Investors deserve far higher standards than failed NZX company delivered.
An education provider incorrectly extended course end dates, skewing completion rates.
The wait is over for thousands of students as NCEA results were released yesterday.
About 143,000 students will be able to access their NCEA results online tomorrow.
The new Government has signalled the arrest policy could be scrapped.
A Cabinet paper on the policy has been released.
Wintec is launching the investigation early next year.
"I accept it with gratitude and I will wear it with pride," Sir John Key said.
The Privacy Commissioner says the university was right to refuse the request.
COMMENT: University is not for everyone but it is valuable.
Humble degree could actually future-proof your career.