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Posted at 8:32am Tuesday 27th Mar, 2012
 About 200 students represented 21 schools from across the Bay of Plenty to swim, bike and run in the Give It a Try Triathlon at Omokoroa Domain.
Pahoia School hosted the event for the third time on Sunday with focuses on participation, fun, getting kids active and providing an individual challenge in a safe environment.
Children competing in the Give...
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Posted at 7:05am Tuesday 27th Mar, 2012
 The number of Equivalent Full-Time Students (EFTS) studying in Tauranga at Waikato University is 17 per cent up on the same time last year.
By March 26, the university had 608 domestic EFTS in Tauranga.
The University of Waikato has already achieved its target for Tauranga.
University of Waikato Vice-Chancellor Professor Roy Crawford says the increase...
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Posted at 11:34am Monday 26th Mar, 2012
 About 50 family, friends and supporters attended Bay of Plenty Polytechnic’s High Performance Sports Academy Scholarship award ceremony on Thursday honouring some of the Bay’s elite young athletes.
The scholarships are open to all students studying any full-time programme at the polytechnic who are competing at a national or international...
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Posted at 10:38am Sunday 25th Mar, 2012
 Lydia Verschaffelt’s views on race relations has won her first place in the 2012 NZ Race Unity Regional speech awards, and a place in the national semi-finals.
Initiated by the NZ Baha’i Community in 2001, the annual national speech contest is co-sponsored by the NZ Police and supported by the Human Rights Commission and the Office...
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Posted at 10:18am Thursday 08th Mar, 2012
 Prime Minister John Key is speaking to about 470 senior students at Otumoetai College today.
He is giving an informal speech along with Tauranga MP Simon Bridges, with both engaging in a question-and-answer session from the students too.
Prime Minister John Key at Otumoetai College this morning.
Key arrived at the school this morning and was greeted...
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Posted at 8:29am Thursday 08th Mar, 2012
 A new social degree is being introduced into the Bethlehem Tertiary Institute’s new curriculum.
The Bachelor of Social Work was launched at the campus with a celebration attended by a kaumatua, academic and social work agency guests, along with staff and students.
BTI dean Dr Andrew Smith says the social work degree was developed during the last...
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Posted at 4:56pm Wednesday 07th Mar, 2012
 The number of full-time equivalent students preparing to study at the University of Waikato’s Tauranga campus is up 20 per cent when compared with the same time last year.
University of Waikato vice-chancellor Professor Roy Crawford says the large increase over 2011 is due to strong growth in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
He also attributes...
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Posted at 9:28am Wednesday 07th Mar, 2012
 Bay of Plenty Polytechnic’s Brian Dillon is heading back to school after being named the successful applicant for the 2012 Chamber of Commerce Tauranga Business Scholarship.
The scholarship will assist him in his studies as he takes on the University of Waikato Management School’s Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies.
Brian Dillon.
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Posted at 3:04pm Tuesday 06th Mar, 2012
 The Bay of Plenty Polytechnic is abuzz with students enjoying their orientation ‘O’ week.
Today there a variety of activities open to students at the polytechnic’s Windermere Campus including mud wrestling and a t-shirt making competition.
Alyssa Baynham and Sam Le Mon wrestle in jelly and then mud while Whitney Show cheers on her...
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Posted at 2:46pm Tuesday 06th Mar, 2012 | By Letitia Atkinson letitia@thesun.co.nz
 Judicial review proceedings are being filed on behalf of Kawerau Intermediate as the battle continues between the school’s community and the Ministry of Education.
The school’s board of trustees has lodged an application in the High Court at Rotorua for the courts to look at the process the ministry took before it came to its decision to...
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