The University of Otago is warning students of the risks of buying essays and answers to previous exams online.

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says he was not informed about an alleged online cheating service because an investigation failed to find sufficient evidence to proceed.

Sibling rivalry took a back seat to family pride in the Dunedin courthouse yesterday when sisters Emma and Alice O'Connell were admitted to the bar and became lawyers.

Identical twins Grace and Olivia Francis have always been close, often sharing the same classes at university.

Maori Television has announced its chief executive Jim Mather is leaving the station for a new role at Te Wananga o Aotearoa.

Former Air New Zealand boss Rob Fyfe says university business students don't understand leadership in the real world.

Auckland's universities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buildings, transforming not only their campuses but the shape of the city they serve.

New graduates are currently in demand in the nursing industry, but they must be eager and enthusiastic, and should never say "no" to anything.

Student loan holders will pay $11 more a week from today as the Government ramps up its repayment scheme.

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.

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.