Despite the generally "clean" image of New Zealand's primary, intermediate and secondary education sector, an Office of the Auditor-general survey into fraud has found 8% of respondents were aware of at least one incident of fraud or corruption in their school within the past two years.
The Ministry of Education will review its communication procedures after Rotary Park School was inadvertently informed of its closure before a ministry representative had had a chance to give official notification.
After spending more than six months recovering in Dunedin and Auckland Hospitals, Shania Hutton says it was a "weird" feeling to drive over the pedestrian crossing where she was hit by a car last year.
A decision by Minister of Education Hekia Parata to close Dunedin's Rotary Park School at the end of this year was relayed to school officials yesterday, catching them by surprise.
It wasn't the longest night of the year, but it didn't make the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival giant lantern procession any less spectacular.
Nearly $7 million has been put aside for mergers and developments at Bathgate Park School and Carisbrook School in South Dunedin.
The lyrics from one of teen heart-throb Justin Bieber's love songs have been turned into a more intellectual song about science.
The Dunedin Midwinter Carnival giant lantern procession may not have taken place on the longest night of the year, but it was spectacular nonetheless. Photos by Jane Dawber; prints of...
The MetService is warning of gale-force winds and snow to low levels in parts of Otago and Southland tomorrow as a narrow ridge covers the country.
Eighteen months ago, Tavita Nielsen-Mamea (14) felt like he was going to die from just walking up a normal flight of stairs.
Unless older people and those who care for them are valued, New Zealand will face a fast-approaching "social crisis", a member of the Human Rights Commission believes.
The Wiggles as we know them may be disbanding, but it will not stop the colourful quartet from touring the world a last time, giving Dunedin fans a chance to say farewell.
"Every age and society, it seems, creates its own folk devils - monsters so grotesque or whose behaviour is so repugnant that they are seen to deserve our condemnation."
A US State Department report has likened an advertisement in a 2007 edition of the Otago Daily Times to those from United States newspapers at the height of slavery.
Using a modified kayak to develop a world-leading, innovative method of measuring high river flows during major floods was nothing more than a means to an end for Otago Regional Council (ORC) hydrologist Paul Hannah.
The Otago Primary Principals' Association has called on school communities to voice their concerns about changes to the pupil-teacher ratios announced in Budget 2012, and is urging the Government to focus on sense before dollars.
A Dunedin man is in custody and a gun has been seized following an Armed Offenders Squad callout near Evansdale which caused major holiday traffic delays last night.
Dunedin schools have lost 1437 pupils in the past nine years - the equivalent of 53 classrooms full of children - and Statistics New Zealand demographers are predicting the decline will continue.
The Ministry of Education has ramped up its bid to dispose of 83 non-core school houses in Otago and Southland to stem the drain on Government finances.
The Government might have abandoned its plans to change teacher-pupil class ratios, but Southern teachers, while applauding the move, remain wary.
