Education

Everyone encouraged to get behind internet safety

Celebrities, politicians, business and school are getting involved in Safer Internet Day 2020. The day is an international event on February 11 aimed at encouraging... Read More

Mr G’s artwork embodies the spirit of Waitangi Day

This year, Waitangi Day holds special significance for Tauranga street artist Graham Hoete, better known as Mr G. He's spent most of the day working on the last... Read More

Two donated vans help Bay students

Vans donated to a Tauranga school is kicking 2020 into gear for its students. Tauranga Special School teacher Jo Crean says two Ford vans were donated to the... Read More

Young people ask for social media safeguards

Young people recognise the dangers of social media and are asking for safeguards to be put in place to protect them - including having its safe use taught in schools... Read More

Alleviating back to school costs in Tauranga

Some Tauranga schools are reducing back to school cost for families in hardship, an effort to get learning underway immediately as term-one kicks off. Gate... Read More

The Lion and Tusk Museum

Roger Mabbett was driving along Portside Drive a few months before Christmas when he noticed a small sign on the side of the road. Puzzled, he went to check... Read More

A ‘Gooney Bird’ flapping over BOP

It is as summer as the sound of cicadas, as summer as the wash of another lazy wave on the Tay Street Beach. This summer sound is the rumble of ZK-AWP - one gracious... Read More

Back to school costs hits families in hardship

KidsCan is taking 47 schools off their waiting list for the start of term one, in response to 'heartbreaking” survey findings. Now, they are supporting... Read More

Two students awarded Omokoroa Lions scholarships

Two young women from Pahoia are the recipients of the Omokoroa Lions Club tertiary scholarships. The scholarships are available to students from the Omokoroa... Read More

WBOP students assisted by Education Trust

Just shy of $115,000 has been awarded to Western Bay of Plenty students in the Bay of Plenty Education Trust's latest scholarship round. Thirteen WBOP students... Read More

Style traverses the generations

Little Chelsea Cooper likes to gussy up. She has a nose for style, for fashion, even at six. 'My favourite dress is a leopard one with no shoulders.” She's... Read More

Auschwitz Now exhibition opens tonight

An exhibition honouring the survivors of the holocaust through images of current day Auschwitz will open at Bethlehem College this evening. The photographic... Read More