When you become ''completely lost'' during a flight over the Antarctic, the natural reaction for passengers might be to panic.
Thousands of principals, teachers and administrators around the country are expected to picket outside National MP offices this morning, protesting the Government's tardiness in fixing Novopay.
Usually she's just another Jane Bloggs, walking up the street to university lectures.
Columba College has vowed to review its school excursion safety policy after 18 pupils narrowly avoided tragedy when they were caught in a dangerous rip near Purakaunui yesterday.
Dunedin baker Sean Jackson had little time to savour his success after he was named runner-up in the 2013 New Zealand Young Bread Baker of the Year competition in Auckland this week.
A former Reuters Middle East conflict zone correspondent has taken a shot at the media's term ''war on terror'', saying it is nothing more than ''hideously overused'' marketing.
Former police commissioner Howard Broad is again rallying the troops - this time, former Kaikorai Valley College pupils to establish the school's alumni association.
Apart from the smell of freshly baked bread, starting work at 3am every day has few upsides.
Otago principals are guarded following the Post Primary Teachers' Association's launch of a group legal action against the Government over the Novopay debacle.
The Ministry of Education has rejected the findings of a newly released report showing two out of three New Zealand secondary schools have reported a worse financial year in 2012 than 2011, and a quarter have dealt with deficits in the past three years.
As far as gifts go, the humble tea-towel is usually a safe bet when it comes to eliciting indifferent reactions from the recipient.
What is the first thing that goes through a cyclist's head when he is hit from behind by a car travelling at nearly 100kmh?
Balmacewen Intermediate in Dunedin is about to become the first intermediate state school in Otago to encourage all pupils to bring electronic devices to school for learning.
Dunedin police have named the man who drowned yesterday when his aluminium dinghy capsized in Papanui Inlet.
Labour's ambitions to create stronger polytechnics was boosted yesterday when staff and students were offered strength-building sustenance in the form of free sausages and vegetable patties.
New Zealand principals will make a plea to Education Minister Hekia Parata this week for schools to b
A shake-up of school bus services in the greater Waikouaiti coastal area has left some parents and Dunedin principals feeling they are being discriminated against by the Ministry of Education.
Dunedin secondary school pupils will be able to debate until they are blue in the face with the establishment of a new debating organisation in the city.
A wave of success swept through the stadium and riding on top of it, with an arm waving in the air, was Macklemore singing: ''I wear your granddad's clothes, I look incredible, I'm in this big ass coat, From that thrift shop down the road''.
A ''depressing lack'' of health prevention strategies in New Zealand schools is causing irreparable damage to children's bodies, which will cost taxpayers millions of dollars in the years to come, a musculoskeletal specialist says.