Auckland Catholic school, De La Salle College, involved last year in a high profile rugby brawl with Auckland Grammar has welcomed a new initiative aimed at improving sideline behaviour among supporters. The initiative involves having a parent or guardian of every boy playing for De La Salle attend an educational evening about appropriate sideline behaviour. Read more
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US bishop postpones morals pledge for teachers 
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
An American bishop has pulled back from implementing a morals pledge for teachers in Catholic schools, requiring them to affirm Church teachings on matters such as abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage. Bishop Robert Vasa of Santa Rosa in California had intended to require all teachers and administrators — Catholic and non-Catholic — to “agree that Read more
Should pupils at Catholic school be made to attend Mass? Comments 1
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
A parent with a child attending a Catholic school has complained to the Fiji Times that the school is forcing students who ar not catholics to attend Mass. In a letter, the school informed parents that if they did not want their children to Mass they should find another school. One parent said.”I had personally Read more
Catholic schools in Indonesia forced to teach Islam Comments 0
Friday, February 1st, 2013
To avoid the threat of closure, six Catholic schools in Indonesia have agreed to teach Islam to their Muslim students. A local ordinance in Blitar city, East Java, requires all Muslim students, wherever they might be educated, to be able to read and write verses from the Koran. A representative of the Islamic Anti-Discrimination Network Read more
Judge bans Principal’s attacker from St Joseph’s school grounds Comments 0
Friday, December 21st, 2012
The man accused of assaulting Peter Ahern, the principal of St Joseph’s School in Upper Hutt, has been told not to enter school grounds. Daniel Wilson, 39, appeared in Upper Hutt District Court on Wednesday 19 December, where he was remanded on bail until January. Wilson, the uncle of a pupil at the school, is not Read more
Catholic school principal beaten up by pupil’s uncle Comments 0
Friday, December 14th, 2012
An Upper Hutt primary school principal suffered a split head and bruised ribs after a “sustained beating” from a relative of one of his pupils. The pupil’s uncle laid into St Joseph’s School principal Peter Ahern during a meeting over his nephew, punching the stunned principal then kicking him while he was on the ground. Read more
BOT and teachers in dispute over attendance at union meeting Comments 1
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
A dispute has arisen between been the board of trustees of St Teresa’s School, in Karori, Wellington, and its staff about the teachers attending Tuesday’s meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute. In a letter to parents the board said it asked that staff attend two separate meetings - in Wellington and in Lower Hutt – Read more
Catholic school boys in brawls in Suva Comments 0
Friday, October 5th, 2012
This week in Suva, Fiji, there have been a number brawls involving students from the city’s boys’ secondary schools. Brawls last Friday and on Monday involved students from Suva Grammar and Marist Brothers’ High School. Three people were hospitalised and a Marist student was arrested. He appeared in the Magistrates Court on Wednesday and was charged with Read more
Christchurch earthquakes claim St Bede’s College Chapel Comments 0
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
St Bede’s Old Boy and Bishop of Christchurch, Rev Barry Jones, on Friday 21st of this month led a ceremony to deconsecrate the St Bede’s College Chapel. Its deconsecration and eventual removal is a huge disappointment to the College community and is a result of the Christchurch earthquakes. The chapel has been closed since May 6, Read more
Two Catholic schools may merge Comments 0
Friday, September 21st, 2012
A merger of two Christchurch Catholic primary schools is under discussion. Under the proposal, Dallington’s St Paul’s School, which suffered severe earthquake damage, would form a new school with Our Lady of Fatima at its Mairehau site from 2015. St Paul’s is housed on an Education Ministry site in Champion St until the end of 2013, with Read more
