Snow, heavy rain forecast for South
Snow, heavy rain forecast for South
MetService is forecasting snow as low as 400m about the ranges of Fiordland and Southland on Monday evening and early Tuesday morning.
John Lewis
'Two-for-one' principal deal adds up for school
'Two-for-one' principal deal adds up for school
Peter Hills and Kristan Mouat are adamant two heads are definitely better than one when it comes to school leadership.
Teaching graduate numbers plummeting
Teaching graduate numbers plummeting
A significant drop in teaching graduate numbers from the University of Otago College of Education over the past decade has set alarm bells ringing for southern principals.
Roll growth at primary level bodes well
Roll growth at primary level bodes well
The tide appears to be turning on Dunedin’s declining secondary school rolls.
OBHS old boy looks back in time
OBHS old boy looks back in time
Tom Higham has spent most of his life dating Neanderthals.
Specialist staff strike
Specialist staff strike
Psychologists, speech language therapists and other learning support specialists who work in schools, made themselves heard around the Dunedin CBD yesterday as part of NZEI strike action.
Parents sample a day in the classroom
Parents sample a day in the classroom
Back to the future sprang to mind when a group of brave parents returned to classroom lessons at St Hilda’s Collegiate yesterday.
Feeling of deja vu for retiring deputy principal
Feeling of deja vu for retiring deputy principal
John Downes could be accused of double-dipping when he retires at the end of this year.
Pupils immersed in physics for a day
Pupils immersed in physics for a day
St Peter's College pupils Mia Walton and Wyatt Simon see how light behaves in a diverging mirror during the Otago University Advanced School Sciences Academy for rural schools.
Otago weather radar construction delayed
Otago weather radar construction delayed
Construction of a weather radar capable of covering the entire Otago region has been hit by a major delay.
Norma proves user-friendly as film subject
Norma proves user-friendly as film subject
To the layman, Norma the Dunedin Town Hall organ looks like the control panel of a nuclear power plant.
Lines, equipment checks via drone
Lines, equipment checks via drone
Aurora Energy is using drones for the first time to conduct visual inspections of its overhead power lines and pole-top equipment.
Street party comes up Trumps
Street party comes up Trumps
Who said freedom of speech was being repressed because the world was becoming too politically correct?
Fun in the sun at Agnew St Party
Fun in the sun at Agnew St Party
Hundreds of people are enjoying the sun at the Agnew St Party, and so far, emergency services say the crowd has been well behaved.
Water supplies cut, schools close, after water main broken
Water supplies cut, schools close, after water main broken
Two Dunedin schools were forced to close unexpectedly yesterday afternoon after a water main was damaged, causing water supplies to be cut.
Children encouraged to have a go
Children encouraged to have a go
Some of tomorrow's greatest athletes may well have been at the Edgar Centre yesterday, participating in Sport Otago's Summer Sports Have A Go Day.
Secondary teachers' union not ruling out strike action
Secondary teachers' union not ruling out strike action
The Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) is not ruling out joining the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) in taking strike action.
Delighted to be third in JSA competition
Delighted to be third in JSA competition
Callum Toomey may still be perfecting the art of eating with chopsticks, but he has no such troubles speaking the Japanese language.
NEV school gets itself in the zone
NEV school gets itself in the zone
After decades of roll decline, North East Valley Normal School has recorded a 152% increase in pupil numbers during the past eight years, prompting its board of trustees to consider an enrolment zone.
Free sanitary products for female high school pupils
Free sanitary products for female high school pupils
Two southern secondary schools are among eight across the South Island receiving free sanitary products for female pupils as part of a new partnership between St John and Dignity NZ.