The Ministry of Education is to "continue to hold" the Carisbrook Heights School site, following its closure as a branch of Carisbrook Main School at the end of this year.
After a major decline in its roll in recent years, Otago Boys' High School appears to be bouncing back with an 84% increase in year 9 pupils forecast for next year.
The Catholic Diocese of Dunedin is to demolish Bernadette’s Church and the adjacent C J Collins Centre in Forbury Rd within the next few months, to make way for a new apartment building.
A CYF senior staff member has been assigned to meet Dunedin North Intermediate principal Heidi Hayward to discuss her concerns about two 12-year-old pupils exposed to drug use.
Anger at the ongoing lack of funding and resources to deal with at-risk children, such as a 12-year-old regularly using drugs, has prompted a Dunedin school principal to write an explosive open letter to several Government ministers.
DNI principal Heidi Hayward has written an explosive open letter to Govt ministers expressing ``deep concern'' about the lack of resources to help ``at-risk'' children.
A gripping television drama series set in a Waikouaiti whaling community in 1839 has been awarded Victoria University of Wellington’s 2016 David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting.
Plans to establish a secondary boarding school for Muslim boys in South Dunedin have been shelved but consideration is being given to setting up a co-ed Muslim primary school instead.