Christchurch city councillors have waived a development $150,617 fee for a new Catholic school. Council staff had recommended the church’s remission application be declined. St Paul’s School on Gayhurst Rd in Dallington was red-zoned after the earthquakes and subsequently sold to the Crown. The diocese decided to merge the school with Our Lady of Fatima in Read more
The Catholic community celebrated Catholic Schools Day 2016 on Monday 16 May. The theme of Catholic Schools Day 2016 is “Extending Horizons of Hope, Changing Lives” Chief Executive of Catholic Schools, Paul Ferris, said, ahead of the annual celebration, that there is much to celebrate. “A network of schools across the country of 66,000 students Read more
Six South Canterbury Catholic schools will make up the new community of learning. The community of learning is expected to lead to a more collaborative approach between the region’s Catholic schools. The schools involved are Roncalli College, Sacred Heart School, St Josephs’ School Pleasant Point, St Josephs’ School Timaru, St Josephs’ School Temuka, and St Read more
Two US Catholic colleges are adopting housing policies which will allow students of different sexes to share a room based on gender identity. The College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts and the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco (USF) will have the gender-inclusive housing policies for the 2016-17 academic year. The USF recently updated its Read more
Last Saturday, forty staff, volunteers, friends and supporters of the Logos Project in Auckland attended a Mass at which Jennifer Martinez was commission as the leader of the Logos Project. Martinez has worked at The Logos project for more than ten years. “The experiences and opportunities I received in my younger years have had a Read more
The fast growing Tauranga population has lead the Catholic church to buy land in Pyes Pa Rd in Tauranga. The 1 hectare property is adjacent to St Thomas Aquinas College. The purchase was announced at a meeting last Sunday at St Thomas Aquinas College. The land will be jointly purchased by the Catholic Diocese of Read more
A Manawatu boarding school has been told it should be paying its staff, no matter if they are asleep or awake. Hato Paora Trust Board, the group which runs Hato Paora College, has been told by the Employment Relations Authority it did not legally pay at least minimum wage to nine current and former employees Read more
Kurtis Haiu, a former Blues and Auckland rugby player, died last week, aged 31, after a long battle with cancer. Haiu was a also a former New Zealand under-19 and under-21 representative. His career ended prematurely in 2011 when a rare form of bone cancer, Ewings Sarcoma, was discovered in his ribs. He has been Read more
John Maguire (54), head of technology and dean of Kavanagh College in Dunedin, has been appointed principal of Nelson’s Garin College. Mr Maguire said it was his first principalship and he was excited about the new leadership role. “I see it as a real challenge and an opportunity for me to get my feet under Read more
In a farewell message, the outgoing head of the New Zealand Catholic Education Office has said he is pleased integrated schools are not a political football. Br Sir Patrick Lynch said the integrated school system “is a New Zealand invention that suits our needs and what it more, it works”. “In the process it ensures Read more