John Lewis

About five years is all it took for 102 computer monitors, 82 hard-drives, 14 printers, and an assortment of associated cables to become outdated.

Proposed cuts to Government funding of a successful and innovative youth programme in Otago and Southland has left mayors in the southern region unified in their concern about a rise in displaced youth.

The Ministry of Education has given Dunedin's Maori community a wake-up call, warning if they do not use Te Kura Kaupapa o Otepoti, they may lose it.

Do synthesizers dream of electric sheep? It is a question few people have pondered seriously.

Julian Huitfeldt says he is a sucker for a good cause.

Following months of consultation, the Ministry of Education has denied permission for Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepoti to move premises to the former High Street School in Dunedin.

Less than 24 hours from the first NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship examinations of 2011, 6358 Otago secondary school pupils are cramming in every scrap of information they can.

It's hard to tell whether it was irony or just bad timing that several groups of university students were happily playing touch rugby next to the venue where a former All Blacks captain, a sports academic and a religious rugby fan were discussing the impending doom of New Zealand's great game.

The merger of Caversham, College Street and Calton Hill schools has hit a snag, with the revelation the redevelopment of the Caversham site will not be finished in time for the start of term one next year.

Prof John Pratt has spent six months of the past five years behind bars, all in the name of research.

Ben Sincock has barely begun his job as the new principal of the merged Caversham, College Street and Calton Hill Schools, and already he is taking aim at the Ministry of Education over its handling of the merger process.

Education Minister Anne Tolley stressed no final decision has been made on the fate of Paerau School, despite her having sent a letter to the school's board of trustees recommending it be closed.

When an Oamaru mother visited her local supermarket to do some grocery shopping with her children, little did she know the sign on the front window saying Lotto's "Big Winner Sold Here" was referring to her.

Tokomairiro High School in Milton has been severely criticised by the Education Review Office (ERO) for failing to engage pupils in learning and its ineffectual procedures for dealing with badly behaved pupils in class.

Finding a place to call home can be a tricky business for tertiary students, but two Otago Polytechnic computer whizzes hope to ease the burden as the great migration and annual student flat hunt begins.