The Ministry of Education has assured schools they will continue to receive all publications and access to online resources following the closure of a major New Zealand education publishing company.
School staff across the country will be at work today dressed in black to mark what the Post Primary Teachers' Association is calling a ''Black Out Day'' for teachers nationally.
A new darts tournament for Dunedin secondary school pupils, started by accident, seems to have hit the mark, attracting several former and present New Zealand darts champions.
Dunedin North MP David Clark says cuts to a bus service for school pupils living north of Dunedin are ''tragic'' and ''shameful''.
Thirty years after having a life-saving kidney transplant, Hazel Jones is celebrating this month.
A school project aimed at collecting children's books and redistributing them to low-decile Dunedin primary schools has won a national award for four Otago Girls' High School pupils.
Dunedin pupils have fared well in an Australasian education competition, with St Hilda's Collegiate School winning the top school and a Columba College pupil winning the top individual award.
The increasing workload of secondary school pupils is starting to take a toll on the Otago Secondary Schools Music Festival, one of the event's organisers says.
The Otago Primary Principals' Association is backing calls for the Government to introduce guidance counsellors to New Zealand primary and intermediate schools.
The rector of one of New Zealand's oldest boys' secondary schools plans to retire if he wins a seat in the coming Otago Regional Council elections.
A British family whose lives in New Zealand have been hanging in the balance for nearly two years are reeling at the news their residency has been approved.
Whille Dunedin schools have noted a decline in the number of pupils absent with influenza this year, a senior doctor is warning families not to be complacent.
A new Pacific Island arts festival to be launched in Dunedin tomorrow night aims to give voice to the perspectives of Otago's Pasifika pupils.
It's not a little house on the prairie - more like a little shed in a Kavanagh College classroom.
Seldom do engineering students get an opportunity to conduct earthquake-strengthening tests on a real building.
You might think driving a truck in the Special Rigs for Special Kids event year after year would become a bit repetitive.
One thing Ailsa Carroll is now sure of: she has what it takes to become an astronaut.
Dunedin barrister Trevor Shiels has become the city's first lawyer in about 15 years to be appointed Queen's Counsel, following a Silk ceremony in the High Court at Dunedin yesterday.
Three Otago Boys' High School pupils say they feel like ''sitting ducks'' as they wait to hear if they have made it to the final six bands in the New Zealand Smokefreerockquest.
School reunions are traditionally an opportunity to catch up with old school cobbers.
