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Govt scrapping first year fees free: What you need to know: The new government plans to change the policy that since 2018 has covered eligible students' ...
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Govt scrapping first year fees free: What you need to know
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Ministry of Education cost-cutting hits Andersons Bay School expansion plans: A frustrated Dunedin principal says there is nothing to show for the $750 ...
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Ministry of Education cost-cutting hits Andersons Bay School expansion ...
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'Marginal' evidence to back school phone ban: The Ministry of Education has told the government there is only marginal evidence that banning cellphones ...
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'Marginal' evidence to back school phone ban
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More school pupils stood down for vaping: Vaping and smoking are bigger issues in primary schools than secondary schools in many parts of New Zealand ...
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More school pupils stood down for vaping
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Govt cuts put school upgrades in doubt: New classrooms at Invercargill’s James Hargest College are in doubt amid cost-cutting and reprioritisation by central ...
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Govt cuts put school upgrades in doubt
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School has ‘challenges’ as teachers resign: Unspecified "challenges" at a North Otago school are being worked on with the help of the Ministry of ...
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School has ‘challenges’ as teachers resign
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When downsizing means destroying our universities: When we talk about redundancies like those recently announced at Vic and Otago, we're talking about more ...
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When downsizing means destroying our universities
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Dunedin school faces drastic roll cut: The Ministry of Education appears to be forcing George Street Normal School to reduce its roll from 460 pupils to 350 ...
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Dunedin school faces drastic roll cut
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Teacher strike: 'It's about more than the money': Nearly half the country's school principals are new to the job because their predecessors ...
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Teacher strike: 'It's about more than the money'
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Ministry puts school under management: St Peter's College in Gore has been placed in limited statutory management. The state-integrated year 7 to 15 ...
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Ministry puts school under management
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Some schools to turn down synthetic carpet, back wool: Some rural schools are going to turn down the offer of having new synthetic carpet installed in their ...
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Some schools to turn down synthetic carpet, back wool
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University given supplies to address period poverty: A recent delivery of 10 pallets of period products has left University of Otago and Campus Watch staff ...
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University given supplies to address period poverty
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Parents ‘sad’ after ECE centre closes suddenly: Wānaka parents have been left "sad and disappointed" after receiving little more than a week’s notice ...
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Parents ‘sad’ after ECE centre closes suddenly
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Kainga Ora halts builds in South Dunedin: Kāinga Ora has paused significant investment in social housing in South Dunedin while the council plans how it should ...
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Kainga Ora halts builds in South Dunedin
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Concerns lead to statutory manager at school: Concerns about financial management, employment and communication have prompted the Ministry of Education to ...
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Concerns lead to statutory manager at school
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Delight as historic school building saved: The multimillion-dollar refurbishment of the 172-year-old grounds at Arthur Street School will include the ...
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Delight as historic school building saved
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Education consultant hired by Catlins school: The Ministry of Education has helped a South Otago school bring in an experienced education consultant after news ...
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Education consultant hired by Catlins school
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Mould-plagued school to get full rebuild: A Dunedin secondary school which had a block of classrooms closed because of unsafe levels of mould will get a full ...
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Mould-plagued school to get full rebuild
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DCC to look at more swimming pools, education: The Dunedin City Council is to look into the possibility of helping to invest in some school swimming pools ...
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DCC to look at more swimming pools, education
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Statutory manager appointed, principal sought: Omarama School is starting the new year with a limited statutory manager in place, and will soon have a new ...
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Statutory manager appointed, principal sought
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ACT announces truancy policy for schools: The ACT Party has launched a truancy policy aimed at resolving what it calls a "crisis" ...
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ACT announces truancy policy for schools
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Car park out during quake strengthening: A central Dunedin car parking building will be out of action for more than a year while the council carries out almost ...
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Car park out during quake strengthening
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School bus cuts ‘appalling’: The Ministry of Education has reduced school bus services "by stealth" and left the Otago Regional Council to make up the ...
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School bus cuts ‘appalling’
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$7000 reprieve welcome: Seven hundred Otago children will have their field trips to Otago Museum paid for after a physics research institute stepped in when the ...
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$7000 reprieve welcome
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St Clair School to get piece of former racecourse: A slice of the former Forbury Park racecourse in Dunedin looks set to be used to give St Clair School more ...
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St Clair School to get piece of former racecourse
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Upset as funds go to non-local organisations: Funding cut from several Dunedin education providers appears to have been given to educational programme providers ...
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Upset as funds go to non-local organisations
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Enrolment zoning on cards for rural school: A rural West Otago school may have to resort to enrolment zoning, as it approaches capacity ...
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Enrolment zoning on cards for rural school
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Waitaki Boys' High School losing ground in coastal erosion: The high school is losing up to a metre and a half of ground each year.
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Waitaki Boys' High School losing ground in coastal erosion
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Historic 1864 school building petition to prevent removal: The Southern Heritage Trust is continuing its campaign to have the historic infants’ building at ...
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Historic 1864 school building petition to prevent removal
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Ecosanctuary, museum dismayed at loss of funding: Otago Museum and Orokonui Ecosanctuary staff are stunned and "bewildered" after the Ministry of ...
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Ecosanctuary, museum dismayed at loss of funding
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Move not imminent but inevitable: Waitaki Boys’ High School believes it is decades away from possibly having to move its school grounds ...
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Move not imminent but inevitable
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Plan to move school comes as a surprise: The Ministry of Education has surprised the Hawea Flat School with plans to move the school 9km away to Lake Hawea in ...
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Plan to move school comes as a surprise
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Lessons for a future without fences: Shocked on learning that the education programme at Orokonui didn't get Ministry funding for the next three-year period ...
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Lessons for a future without fences
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Ventilation rules fail to account for frosty Central: A Maniototo principal says Covid-19 ventilation guidelines do not take into account Central Otago’s harsh ...
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Ventilation rules fail to account for frosty Central
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Importance of place at heart of building stoush: The fate of a simple, but meaningful, building at Dunedin’s oldest school is still undecided ...
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Importance of place at heart of building stoush
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Relief teachers breaking budgets as sickness hits schools: Teachers have used nearly twice as many sick days as normal and at some schools it is breaking the ...
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Relief teachers breaking budgets as sickness hits schools
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Germans backing green hydrogen research: A planned green hydrogen research centre in Dunedin now has the financial backing of both the New Zealand and German ...
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Germans backing green hydrogen research