The Ministry of Education has appointed a statutory manager to work with East Otago High School after a recent Education Review Office report revealed the school was slow to deal with issues raised in an earlier report.
For Riley Dasler, the novelty of having breakfast at school on his first day may have been lost on him.
Not only has Philippa McLachlan taken on the role of principal at Waldronville School this year, she has also taken up the fight to save the school from closing because of declining school rolls on the Brighton coast.
Expansion of the University of Otago is being blamed for slipping numbers at Logan Park High School, one of six Otago schools facing their lowest rolls in a decade.
A school bus run between Port Chalmers and Dunedin is the first victim of a chronic shortage of bus drivers in the city, Dunedin Passenger Transport (DPT) director Kayne Baas says.
Principals around the country are criticising the Ministry of Education after major payroll errors, which have created a bureaucratic nightmare for many schools.
Planned strike action today by more than 50 Dunedin Community Childcare Association (DCCA) employees was called off last night.
A tour of the Dunedin Centre yesterday did little to resolve the dissent of three vocal critics opposed to the proposed ‘‘glass house'' development in Harrop St.
A Dunedin City Council hearings committee has declined a retrospective resource consent on a Carroll St development after finding a ‘‘concerning'' level of deviation from the original consent application.
The board of trustees at St Marys Kaikorai School in Dunedin has appointed an independent adviser to investigate the school's ‘‘unusually high'' turnover of staff.
The hearing for Dunedin's Mercure Hotel's second resource consent application for a proposed six-storey annexe redevelopment, worth more than $5 million, has been postponed until late next month.
