Education

Online cenotaph heading to Thames

This November Thames will host an online hub used for capturing stories of New Zealand service men and women who served in World War One. Auckland Museum's He Pou... Read More

Commemorating the women of war

Thames will be one of three New Zealand towns to showcase an international exhibition paying tribute to the sacrifice of 30 Anzac in the First World War. The Women... Read More

Mount Primary joins buddy day

Students at Mount Maunganui Primary School have got behind annual awareness event Buddy Day again this year, with great enthusiasm. Mount Primary School students... Read More

School play, with a challenge

The bell goes at Otumoetai Primary School and the children are itching to get out of their classrooms and on to the new playground. While there'll be no race from... Read More

Crowds flock to Special Olympics

Over 120 school children with disabilities descended on Tauranga Domain today for an annual Special Olympics event. The secondary school meeting caters for the entire... Read More

Vibrant performance in Tauranga

Indian performers visiting New Zealand for public Diwali festivals will also take to the road and visit schools in Tauranga and Waikato. Folk-dance group Mudra Creation,... Read More

Changes aim to halt confusion

The New Zealand Secondary Schools Rugby Union will make changes to its procedures relating to the eligibility of players in the wake of issues raised in a Top 4... Read More

Inspiration for future innovators

A dozen secondary school students from Bethlehem's Te Wharekura o Mauao will embark on a once-in-a-lifetime trip this weekend to help inspire the next generation... Read More

'Gifted' student celebrated

‘Graeme' was a problem in the classroom - he was quite violent. Autistic, as it turned out. It's not his real name, but we will call him Graeme. And what he... Read More

Banned book back on library shelves

Tauranga Library's only copy of Into the River - the first banned book in a generation - went back on the shelves yesterday afternoon, but was immediately loaned... Read More

Ballance scholarships open

There's still time for secondary students with an interest in furthering their studies in agriculture or engineering to apply for a helping hand from a Ballance... Read More

Iwi elder honoured with doctorate

A Tauranga kaumatua who has spent decades working for his people is to receive the University of Waikato's highest honour. Morehu Ngatoko Rahipere MNZM will receive... Read More