A highly regarded early childhood education specialist at the University of Otago is calling for every child in New Zealand to have access to early childhood education as of right, and for the Government to take responsibility for planning a national network of services.
It is not often you can walk all over an artwork.
The Dunedin City Council's decision to grant resource consent for Ryman Healthcare to build an $18 million retirement village in Roslyn has elicited mixed reactions.
Having a special award created and presented to the Dunedin school with the best caretaker has come as a "pleasant surprise" for pupils and staff at Big Rock School - especially because they don't actually have a school caretaker.
"I never thought I would win something like this, coming from where I come from."
The days of showering in the dark, dingy changing rooms at the Kings High School gym with a chilly southerly gale blowing through will soon be over.
Anti-stadium sentiments spray-painted over a school mural on the Forsyth Barr Stadium construction site fence have left many at Ravensbourne School and the Dunedin City Council "horrified".
Just a week out from travelling to China with a delegation of prominent New Zealand and Pacific Island musicians, Dunedin composer Dame Gillian Whitehead has been given the unexpected honour of leading the group.
It was a letter which should have brought great joy to Logan Park High School.
More than half of Otago's Year 13 secondary school pupils leave school without university entrance qualifications - a statistic Education Minister Anne Tolley says adds ammunition to her establishment of national standards.
Pupils at Columba College have always known their commerce teacher is an enterprising woman, but soon Suzanne Bishop will have an accolade to prove it.
Few pupils could appreciate what it would be like to walk 7km along a muddy path to get to school in a draughty farmer's barn 150 years ago.
St Hildas Collegiate pupils hope a cookbook will make their dream of a new school canteen a reality.
The jury is still out on whether appealing to a child's creativity will solve Otago's recessional woes, but as far as directors of NAMCAP NZ are concerned, it's a sure winner.
While toilet paper has traditionally only had one use, year 10 art pupils at Columba College have found another.
"Health services in New Zealand still seem to be an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff rather than preventative."
Otago residents will be some of the biggest winners in the country when Air New Zealand slashes the cost of domestic flights in and out of Dunedin and Queenstown International Airports by up to 42%.
The families of murder victims Sophie Elliott and Michael Hutchings are pleased the scales of justice are finally beginning to tilt back towards favouring the families of homicide victims, but say there is still a long way to go.
Having your artworks described as "creepy", "peculiar" and full of "flowing gooeyness" may sound unflattering, but they are qualities which won three Dunedin artists premier prizes at the prestigious Portage Ceramic Awards in Auckland last night.
In a former life, it was a lawn mower. Now, it's a grass-shredding speed machine.
