Sara Cohen School pupil Scott Harborne's request for special education transport assistance funding has been declined in a review.
The Otago-Southland Secondary Principals Association talked to Education Minister Anne Tolley at its Wanaka conference yesterday, keeping the discussion behind closed doors.
The Post Primary Teachers Association has foreshadowed continuing industrial action until December if secondary school teachers' conditions are not met.
Two Dunedin education specialists have been selected by the Ministry of Education for a controversial task force, set up to look at early childhood education (ECE) funding.
The Herbert community is grieving the closure of Otepopo School, its remaining four pupils now having to go to other schools as far away as Hampden and Maheno.
Building stools, taking extended lunch breaks, and teachers shouting you lunch instead of shouting at you - yesterday was like a school day in the twilight zone for Kaikorai Valley College pupil Nathaniel McMonagle (13).
"When you kick teachers, you kick the kids." The slogan, being shaken on a placard, made the Post Primary Teachers' Association's message loud and clear during strike action in Dunedin yesterday.
Minister of Education Anne Tolley has announced she will establish a National Standards advisory group.
As teachers at 22 Otago secondary schools prepare to strike on Wednesday, the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) is planning another round of rostered strikes in term four.
The Government's new approach to improving achievement in schools by providing direct and focused Ministry of Education support has been welcomed by Otago's primary and secondary principals.
Learning his pupils would soon have greater, faster access to the internet was "fantastic" news yesterday for King's High School principal Dan Reddiex.
Peter Lyons warns of taking Rugby World Cup hype too much to heart.
People involved with a Dunedin centre for disruptive school pupils fully supported its continuation, despite the Government suggesting their feedback was behind its closure.
The Otago Parents of Deaf Children Association is calling on the Ministry of Education for help as funding for a deaf resource person in the region looks set to dry up next month.
A National Ministry of Education survey has shown a decline in the number of teacher vacancies at Otago schools, but the Post Primary Teachers' Association is querying the accuracy of those statistics.
Seven pupils are expected to return to Dunedin's Corstorphine School next week for the start of the second term, despite a mass exodus last term.
St Joseph's School, in Queenstown, has a deficit working capital of $23,000 and says it does not get enough money from the Ministry of Education to cover its running costs.