Education

The sky’s the limit

Right now they may just be small sprouts, but sky-high glorious sunflowers will be dispersed across the Otumoetai Kindergarten garden in a few months' time. Kindergarten... Read More

Life of a Karitane Nurse

Lyndsay Morgan has been caring for infants for more than 40 years. The Tauranga woman's career started straight out of high school in 1959, when she trained... Read More

Te Reo Māori lessons for health staff

Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) staff and their whānau have the opportunity to learn te reo Māori on-site thanks to a new initiative to grow the... Read More

Toi Ohomai sign first two mechanical apprentices

Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is pairing up with employers to ensure the next generation of mechanical engineers are ready to plug the skills gap in the... Read More

Govt investing in workplace literacy programme

New funding of $14.5 million over four years, means the Government will contribute nearly $45 million to the employer-led workplace literacy and numeracy fund... Read More

Primary and intermediate principals accept pay

Primary and intermediate school principals have settled their long-running pay dispute with the Education Ministry. Educational Institute members have accepted... Read More

Kindergarten Sunflower project prepares to bloom

A staggering 13,024 kindergarten tots around New Zealand will become little green thumbs and showcase their gardening knowhow by competing with other kindergartens... Read More

Building a brighter future for kids with dyslexia

A Tauranga building business is helping to lay the foundation for success for adolescents with dyslexia by sponsoring students suffering from the learning disorder... Read More

Fractions, decimals and Captain Cook

Rosalie Crawford was being flippant, but in jokes can lie truth. Rosalie mused that if Katherine Mansfield had schooled at the tiny kauri schoolhouse rotting... Read More

Information Slam for local writers

The Bay of Plenty Children's Literature Association's annual seminar ‘Bookrapt' is taking on a whole new look this year. Promoted as a One-Stop Information... Read More

The precious kauri trees of the Kaimai Ranges

A structure of wooden planks, used in the 1900s to gather and unleash water to ‘drive' kauri logs down Western Bay of Plenty hills to sawmills, is juxtaposed... Read More

Let’s make Kaiate Falls swimmable again

Kaiate Falls is going to be receiving a lot of love and care, as volunteers gather today to plant hundreds of native trees and plants. The ‘Let's Make Kaiate... Read More