John Lewis

Parents are drifting back to school this weekend - albeit only for a couple of hours - for the annual Taieri College Open Day.

The mathematical probability of Johnny Mottershead winning the 2015 Eton Press Casio Senior Mathematics Competition is pretty good - but even so, he is not placing any bets on it.

A million-dollar makeover is on the way for Fairfield School after the Ministry of Education deemed four of its classrooms ''at the end of their days''.

Former Dunedin conductor Holly Mathieson is in the limelight again - this time for her appointment as conductor of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) Junior Orchestra.

King's High School is just days away from making a historic decision about whether to follow the Ministry of Education's advice and establish an enrolment scheme at the school. 

NCEA assessments are about to hit the digital age in Otago, with a dozen schools participating in a nationwide trial of a computer-based maths assessment later this year.

What do a large industrial switchboard, some urinals, a set of heavy duty guillotine blades, a bench grinder, some boots and a Sorvall Superspeed centrifuge have in common?

Wearing leotards can cop you a lot of flak from your mates when you're a bloke.

Sam van der Weerden is not normally one to take pleasure in other people's misfortunes, but this time he is making an exception.

Shakespeare plays are far from child's play.

The new Z Energy fuel station in Green Island is almost gassed up and ready for a steady stream of cars.

With one of her seven children due to have brain surgery next week, the last thing Natasha Williams needs to worry about this week is finding somewhere to live.

Growing up with one of the country's most popular beaches on her back doorstep inspired Ashlie Nobilo to become a lifeguard - not so much out of want, but necessity.

Science, technology and sporting education at Kaikorai Valley College has received an extraordinary funding boost of $217,000 from the Government's Teacher-led Innovation Fund.

Sir Edmund Hillary once said you don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - ''you can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals''.

Lewis Vaughan (left) and friend Jacob Reeve (both 15) load a sodden and damaged piece of furniture on to a trailer.

A former Department of Conservation scientist has told a Dunedin symposium one of the greatest hurdles facing New Zealand's environment is the lack of ''a price on nature'', and has called for the Government to introduce an environmental consumption tax.

An Australian couple on holiday in New Zealand will be taking home a Kiwi souvenir unlike any other.

Natasha Williams feels like a huge burden has been lifted from her shoulders - much of it carried by Good Samaritans from as far away as Auckland.