John Lewis

Organisers of Stars on Stage musical and theatrical event at the Regent Theatre say the biennial three-day event has become so popular they will expand the show to four nights in 2011.

Otago Enviroschools facilitators are shocked at the Ministry of Education's proposal to cut funding to the New Zealand Enviroschools Foundation beyond 2009 and are concerned about the effects of such a move.

The University of Otago has warned New Zealand's early childhood education sector will suffer as recent Government budget cuts have made it likely universities across the country will have to disestablish their early childhood professional development teams.

The early childhood education sector is predicting a shortage of more than 1000 teachers nationwide next year, but providers in Otago say the region will be safe from the deficit.

Synapses were firing furiously at Otago Museum yesterday despite freezing temperatures, as more than 40 secondary school pupils competed in the New Zealand Brain Bee South Island Challenge.

If New Zealand schools fail to embrace the new New Zealand Curriculum, they will continue to put pupils with dyslexia on a path to crime, a visiting authority has told Otago teachers and parents.

There is more to winning a Maori speech competition than the prizes, Matoia Wilson says.

Strong winds gusting up to 109kmh have hammered Dunedin overnight but the city appears to have escaped any serious damage.