New low-GI sugar has received a caning from a leading New Zealand human nutrition specialist.
An Education Review Office (ERO) report has found more than half of the Ministry of Education's learning and behaviour resource teacher (RTLB) clusters are poorly managed, and the widespread lack of accountability and use of ministry funds was of concern.
A Dunedin secondary school plans to allow senior pupils to study outside school during school hours, as part of its bid to create an environment of pupil-led education.
A recent Education Review Office report has raised concerns about the care of international pupils studying at Logan Park High School.
BNZ branches in Otago were "Closed for Good" yesterday, but more than 30 non-profit community organisations were open for the bank's volunteers to help with renovations, repairs and clean-ups.
A ministry of Economic Development survey has revealed there is a significant shortage of skilled labour in the IT industry, despite the recession and consequent job losses.
It may have been 80 years since the old boys of the 1930s last attended assembly at Otago Boys High School in Dunedin.
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.