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Student loan repayment times are falling.

Robin Hapi to replace Tina Olsen-Ratana as the new Commissioner of the Tertiary Education Commission

Robin Hapi appointed as new Tertiary Education Commissioner

John Key flip flops, accuses others of lying, or is just confused

Pete Hodgson welcomes tertiary legislation

Pete Hodgson asks Paul Hutchison to wait a couple a weeks, when funding levels for the tertiary sector will be confirmed

New Zealanders are more skilled and obtaining higher qualifications under a Labour-led government

Pete Hodgson and Ruth Dyson correct Sandra Goudie

New Zealand must increase its skill base if the country is to maintain its international reputation and enhance its global competitiveness, Tertiary Education Minister Michael Cullen said today.

Nearly $8 million will be invested over the next two years to boost research capacity in the high-priority areas of nursing, veterinary science, and information and communications technology.

NZ's Labour-led government shown to be integrating skills and economic development

More medical undergraduates: government addresses tight international medical labour market

Continuing AUT's development of research and teaching capability with a $50 million funding boost

This is a world class computer. It's one of the 25 most powerful supercomputers operating in academia anywhere in the world. It makes the University of Canterbury the first research institution in the Southern Hemisphere to have an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer.

David Shand is a highly capable individual who has had extensive experience in public sector finance and in public sector organisations.

This will help reinvigorate what is an important export industry and a valuable part of our education sector.

Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton’s desire to see no-one under 20 years of age on the unemployment benefit has been almost achieved.

Tertiary Education Commissioner Jim Donovan will fill the role of interim chair of the TEC until a permanent replacement is found.

With the growth in international enrolments at state integrated schools it is appropriate that something be done to manage the associated increase in costs.

World-leading PhD students studying in NZ under the International Doctoral Research Scholarships programme are getting more government support

Latest training figures for the March quarter show a 10.3 per cent rise in Modern Apprentices and a 3.5 per cent increase in Industry Trainees.

Someone with a New Zealand qualification can now work or study much easier overseas because that qualification will now have equivalent status in each of the 50 Lisbon convention countries.

I am confident this programme will further strengthen New Zealand's international reputation as a quality provider of higher education, as well as enriching the experience for our own students.

National’s claim that it would put a new emphasis on trade training in schools is outrageous, given that when it was last in government, it had virtually destroyed the trade training and apprenticeships systems, leaving many industries now desperate for skilled staff.