A best-selling author is giving away the hefty book collection that lines every wall of his beachfront Auckland home.

The path to the top can begin in unusual places. For Paula Bennett, it was performing as Rizzo in a high school production of the musical Grease.

In the 1950s a Wellington student, later to become an accounting profession stalwart, paid his way through university via newspaper advertisements, writes Bob Jones.

NZ has a "rock star economy" and surveys reveal high levels of business confidence, but what could make the economy run out of puff? Peter Lyons looks at the issue.

Kiwi employers working through a pile of CVs are unlikely to care how applicants' place of study compares on international rankings.

The University of Otago's ban on pornography in residential colleges is being slammed as an attack on student freedom.

More than half a century lies between them, but the youngest and oldest students graduating from the University of Auckland both have a secret.

Being young can often mean a lot of people will disregard what you have to say.

Thousands of students are travelling long distances across Auckland to avoid their local schools - and there's concern about the flow-on effects.

An exclusive extract from Stand by Me by Sir John Kirwan, his guide for helping parents and teens around mental health.

If it’s September, this must be New Zealand... Andrew Laxon catches up with the students and Kiwi founder of an international travelling school which has arrived in Auckland

A teacher who chatted online about sexually violating a schoolgirl and bringing her to a group sex session to "let everyone have a go at a young girl" has been de-registered.

A UNICEF report clearly states that violence in all its forms can rob children's dignity, diminish their self-worth, and threaten their optimal development, writes Bernadette Saunders.

More than 300 high school students were absent across three schools during a random check - and police are concerned truants could be contributing to local crime.

An Auckland primary school has been cleared of sexual offending against 10 of his former students.

Act's sole MP David Seymour will meet John Key at Parliament today with a wishlist for a confidence and supply agreement, including for him to become a minister.

New Zealand university students are about to battle international competition to decide who has built and programmed the best robot.

According to the University of Victoria, more than half of New Zealanders aged between 18 and 30 did not vote in the last general election.

A group of Auckland primary pupils had a kick around with an All Blacks legend at Eden Park yesterday.

New Zealand students' "hope, engagement and wellbeing" is being measured by a company known for running staff engagement surveys for corporate clients.

A new $17 million health and fitness centre at private Epsom girls' school St Cuthbert's College opens today.

The National Party wants to double the number of people studying engineering at university in a bid to get more graduates into jobs in the high-tech sector.

David Cunliffe faced a lecture theatre full of students at Waikato University and had smoko with workers at a Te Rapa factory.

Even teachers have to meet the dress standard under the ‘Grammar way’.

A major milestone for the country's oldest school will see some of its famous alumni meet up - and some keen discussion on what its future holds.

A near-unanimous vote has parents at St John's College supporting the school's "new hair rule" following the Lucan Battison case, but it could be challenged in court.

As the judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial was training to qualify, she changed her name from Matilda to Thokozile - the Zulu word meaning happy.

A scheme in which millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on sending students to private schools needs to be assessed to see if it is delivering results, an education union says.

Teen cannabis smokers are 60 per cent more likely to drop out of high school than their non-smoking peers, and are more likely to use other drugs and attempt suicide.