Ministry of Education programmes aimed at helping Dunedin schools support pupils with challenging behaviour in the wake of the Phoenix Centre closure, are too slow in coming, Dunedin principals say.
The majority of Otago primary and intermediate principals have welcomed the Labour Party's vow to scrap compulsory National Standards should the party win the forthcoming general election.
In a small shed on a far corner of the grounds at King's High School, the sound of banging, grinding, scratching, tooting and the occasional whistling has been heard over the years.
Custard is a delicious dessert. But Kustard is Otago Girls' High School's newly crowned national secondary schools' hip-hop champion group.
They won the Otago Daily Times Extra! years 5 and 6 current events quiz last night, without getting a question wrong - 100 correct answers out of 100.
Rugby World Cup tourists looking to try the South's seafood delicacies are creating a "splurge" in revenue for a local seafood distributor.
Just 10 days into the Rugby World Cup, tourists have bumped spending in the Otago region to almost $10 million, up nearly 15% compared with the corresponding 10 days last year.
One in 10 school pupils who fled Christchurch in February after the magnitude 6.3 earthquake now live in Otago, and the Ministry of Education has announced school resources in the city need to be redistributed.
The next time you dine out, the chances are a man with a thick Welsh accent may tap you on the shoulder and ask for your candid opinion on the state of local government in Dunedin.
Three Dunedin businesses have teamed up with the Asia New Zealand Foundation to educate Otago secondary school pupils in possible careers which could foster understanding and business links between New Zealand and Asian nations.
Happiness, sadness, excitement, horror, surprise, even torment - a flood of emotions washed through the North East Valley Normal School library during the New Zealand String Quartet's first concert for gifted pupils in Dunedin yesterday.
The Pembroke School board of trustees feels "let down" after the Ministry of Education used the Education Act to force the school to amend their annual charter to include National Standards targets.
At the end of a career spanning several decades, many principals find it almost impossible to cut themselves off completely from education.
Lifting your entire body horizontally off the floor in a straddle or pike, using nothing but your arms, is excruciatingly painful.
The Ministry of Education is still unable to reveal how much the merger of five south Dunedin schools will cost, and concern is growing about whether the budgeted $2.75 million for capital costs will be enough.
Cromwell is to get one of 10 new trades academies being established around New Zealand by the Ministry of Education next year to provide practical skills training for secondary school pupils while they study for NCEA credits and tertiary qualifications.
To the untrained eye, it looks just like the General Lee.
When it was announced Brighton and Ocean View Schools would be amalgamated, it caused an uproar in the communities.
Bayfield High School has appointed its first female principal in the school's 50-year history.
Singing God Defend New Zealand can be a stretch for many rugby fans - not because they cannot sing, but because the national anthem is often performed in a key designed for professional opera singers.
