John Lewis

Brent Ward has said goodbye on the last day of school many times in his 32-year care as an educator.

Gary Tenbeth had to chuckle at the irony when he won an $8000 scholarship to study mental development techniques - a scholarship for which he forgot he had applied.

The future of scientific discovery in New Zealand may be in jeopardy, with the number of pupils taking senior secondary school science subjects having decreased as much as 50% in the past 20 years, Otago secondary school science teachers say.

To some, it is just a lift.

Catherine Robson is snapping at the chance to learn from some of the world's greatest photographers after winning a $20,000 study scholarship.

"Explain why unicellular organisms such as Euglena and Paramecium are restricted to being microscopic in size."

Dunedin's grip on the title of New Zealand's fifth largest city has come into question as the latest figures from Statistics New Zealand suggest Tauranga may have eclipsed the city.

Despite having two older brothers on the Kings High School honours board as duxes, Bede Robertson says he did not feel the least bit pressured to live up to family tradition this year.

Judgment was for the Dunedin Community Law Centre in the battle for top honours at the 2008 New Zealand Law Awards.

"You can take the teacher out of the classroom, but you can't take the classroom out of the teacher."

It was more "Polar Plunge" than "Push Play", but competitors in a "virtual triathlon" in central Dunedin yesterday did not let cold weather slow them down.

The lesson at Dunedin's Columba College this week is that three plus five equals 35,000.

A Dunedin City Council survey which shows about half of Dunedin's school pupils are ferried to school by car is worrying principals and health organisations.

Kings High School has taken on an uncanny resemblance to a baked bean and spaghetti manufacturing plant as pupils aim to collect 2500 cans of food for the Presbyterian Support Food Bank by the end of this week.