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DunedinMay 31

Pupils get the blood pumping

Athletes charging around the turf of Forsyth Barr Stadium, the din of excitement and the cheers of supporters - no, this wasn't an All Blacks test. It was World Athletics Day.

DunedinMay 29

ERO gives new school good report

An Education Review Office (ERO) report has revealed Bathgate Park School is thriving in the wake of the Ministry of Education's 2012 South Dunedin Schools Review.

DunedinApril 24

NCEA statistical picture questioned

The number of Otago secondary schools failing to meet the national average pass rate in all levels of NCEA continues to rise, recently released statistics from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority show.

DunedinMarch 27

Loves-Me-Not to go national

An educational healthy-relationship programme inspired by the death of Dunedin woman Sophie Elliott is to be offered to all New Zealand schools in the coming weeks.

DunedinFebruary 27

Teachers fret over Novopay tax turmoil

Dunedin teachers are facing a confusing end to the financial year because of pay errors caused by Novopay.

DunedinDecember 12

ERO calls for review of guidance

The Education Review Office has recommended the Ministry of Education review its formula for guidance counselling funding in schools after it found some schools were not able to account for how they were spending the money.

DunedinOctober 3

Overseas pupils on rise

The fall in international fee-paying (IFP) pupil numbers in Otago schools appears to be reversing, alleviating fears schools could suffer financial difficulty.

DunedinSeptember 16

It takes attitude to succeed: Key

Every year, Class Act award winners are encouraged to go out into the world and fulfil their ambitions.

DunedinSeptember 12

Quiz victors two points shy of perfect

Three Dunedin boys were two points shy of a perfect quiz score last night.

DunedinSeptember 12

Schools take time over broadband

Ultra-fast broadband is now running past more than half of the southern region's school gates, but so far fewer than a third of the schools have tapped into the cable which can provide large amounts of data, faster.

DunedinAugust 14

Fewer pupils off school with flu

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.

DunedinJune 13

City schools safe for now

Pressure on the Ministry of Education to operate in a ''constrained fiscal environment'' appears to have abated in the past year.

DunedinJune 27

Schools urged to be proactive

Burglaries of Dunedin schools have almost doubled in the past year, prompting police and Neighbourhood Support to provide strategies for keeping schools secure during holidays.

NationalJune 27

Survey identifies low rate of fraud in schools

Despite the generally "clean" image of New Zealand's primary, intermediate and secondary education sector, an Office of the Auditor-general survey into fraud has found 8% of respondents were aware of at least one incident of fraud or corruption in their school within the past two years.

EditorialJune 20

Measuring schools' performance

Compare. measure, contrast, rank - it is an instinctual human tendency, and in few other aspects of life is the drive more acute than the schooling of our children.

DunedinJune 20

Dunedin school rolls down 1437; decline to continue

Dunedin schools have lost 1437 pupils in the past nine years - the equivalent of 53 classrooms full of children - and Statistics New Zealand demographers are predicting the decline will continue.

South OtagoJune 15

$1500 science grant

A new garden science programme at Balclutha Primary School has received a $1500 boost.

DunedinMay 28

Govt technology move 'huge blow' to schools

The Government launched a "sneak attack" on technology teachers in the Budget, inflicting a "huge blow" on the nation's intermediate sector, Tahuna Normal Intermediate principal Tony Hunter says.

QueenstownApril 29

Pupils start training for programme

Pupils in years 5 to 8 are training for an Olympic-themed sports programme organised by Lakes Leisure.

DunedinMarch 18

More teachers hired on short-term contracts

During tough fiscal times, New Zealand schools appear to be refining their budgets by hiring increasing numbers of teachers on short-term contracts.

QueenstownMarch 18

Decision on school pending

A High Court decision on the proposed second campus to cater for 112 St Joseph's School pupils, on Speargrass Flat Rd, near Arrowtown, was reserved after a two-day hearing in Christchurch last week.

NationalMarch 17

Study shows schools setting own standards

Fears school pupils will not be pushed to achieve to the greatest of their abilities are becoming a reality under National Standards, a report shows.

DunedinMarch 9

Broadband to expand

Following news the Government's ultra-fast broadband will be introduced to 14 Dunedin schools by July this year comes a promise to provide the service to a further 21 Dunedin schools and two Oamaru schools by July next year.

DunedinFebruary 27

School plans due 'soon'

The release of plans for either a refurbishment or a total rebuild of the new Carisbrook School are imminent, board of trustees chairwoman Isabell Sinclair Irwin says.

DunedinFebruary 3

Schools given new books

More than 100 primary schools in Otago have begun their school year with a stock of new library books donated by Telecom and Scholastic.