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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.

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.

Students be warned, National has a secret agenda. Remember Mr Key strongly campaigned against interest free student loans at the last election and voted against them.

Excellent teachers inspire students to achieve their best. They make a vital contribution to our efforts to raise the quality of tertiary education across the sector.

Russell Marshall has led the TEC through one of the most significant periods of change that New Zealand’s tertiary sector has seen.

Today's announcement further underlines the Labour-led government's commitment to lifting our sustainable rate of economic growth.

Funding of up to $11.15 million has been approved so the school can build a new home to reflect its contribution to our national identity.

Rather than indicating failure, the Auditor-General says categorically that he is 'pleased' with the outcome of the audit.

Budget 2007 helps the tertiary sector meet NZ's economic, environmental and social challenges

Budget 2007 helps NZ's training system to produce more of the right workers needed to increase productivity

Budget 2007 expands allowances and scholarships for an extra 12,000 students

Universities are to receive an extra $129 million over four years for delivery of training that meets NZ's economic and social priorities