Tertiary Education

Medical students who have already hit the eight-year borrowing limit on their student loans will have to find another way to pay their fees next year.

The government has buckled under pressure and released the total cost of its plan to boost student allowances and loans to cover living costs.

The government plans to retain a performance-funding system that docks millions of dollars a year from tertiary institutions.

Northland's economic development agency is warning against plans by the region's polytech to scrap degree courses in art and sports.

The tertiary teachers' union is calling for an urgent meeting with government ministers over plans to slash about 50 jobs at NorthTec in Whangarei.

Universities are confident they can get a slice of the boom in Indian student enrolments without the fraud and other problems that have accompanied Indian enrolments at other institutions. Audio

Tertiary institutions owned by members of the Chinese and Indian communities are bearing the brunt of a Qualifications Authority crackdown.

The biggest polytechnic, Unitec, is taking back some of its enrolment services just over a year after it controversially outsourced them to a private company.

Plagiarism and incomprehensible English in student work at an Auckland tertiary institute led to the shut down of four of its courses, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority says.

Tertiary enrolments have reached their lowest point in more than a decade amid rising costs and a lack of financial support, the Union of Students Associations says.

A private tertiary institution has repaid $420,000 in government funding because it broke funding rules for its natural health and homeopathy courses, the Tertiary Education Commission says.

Auckland University has slumped in international rankings, and is now barely clinging on among the world's top 200.

Australian lawmakers have ruled a proposal to remove university subsidies directly discriminates against New Zealanders.

Results from a $500,000 online survey that shows what students think of their courses are running late.

Over-crowding and dubious marking of students' work has prompted NZQA to take action against 27 tertiary institutions in the past 15 months.

The three Māori tertiary institutions all made surpluses last year and increased their enrolments, with one doing so by nearly 40 percent.

More than 140 foreign students won't be able to continue their studies after they failed an English test and a check of their academic achievement, NZQA says.

Enrolments fell at three big Auckland tertiary institutions last year, while Canterbury institutions continued their recovery, annual reports show.