A disagreement over the right of integrated schools to charge parents for the cost of collecting money from them is heading to court. Education officials are clamping down on charging practices at taxpayer-funded integrated schools, with at least one school told to return a bond parents have been required to pay. This coming term $4000-a-year Read more
Hato Petera College is accused of acting illegally after sending every year 13 pupil a letter which threaten stand downs if they fail NCEA. YouthLaw, a free legal service representing pupils with grievances against schools, says the letter clearly breaches the Education Act. In his September 2 letter, principal Hohepa Campbell said many of the co-ed Read more
Eleven-year-old Hamilton Marian school boy Nathan Carrasco won an ANZ competition to run out with a team captain at one of the 48 Rugby World Cup games around New Zealand – days later he learned he would be leading Richie McCaw in the All Blacks game against Japan at Waikato Stadium.
Read the article...At Winton’s Thomas Aquinas Primary School almost a quarter of the children are Filipino, highlighting the changing face of the region.
Winton’s St Thomas Aquinas School principal Julian Ineson said 17 of its 79 pupils (22 per cent) were from the Philippines, owing largely to the dairy farming boom in the area that brings Filipino families to Southland to work.
He said some of the Filipino children had a limited knowledge of English, and he wants more direction from the Education Ministry on how best to teach them.
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Fifty boarders at Euphrasie House in Hamilton East have nowhere to live next year with closure of the school hostel being brought forward.
Read the article...Thousands of Catholic parents in Otago and Southland face another fee rise as the church moves to a national fees system.
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A 16-year-old girl, dubbed ‘Spider girl,’ was expelled from Mary’s College in Apia Samoa, because she used her cellphone to make a sexually explicit video which then found its way onto the internet. The Director of Catholic Education, Aeau Chris Hazelman, and Marist Sisters head Sister Emanuela Betham went on Samoa Television to issue a Read more
Marian College will move to Catholic Cathedral College at the start of next year. The College’s Shirley site is to be ‘mothballed’ for up to four years. Marian College principal Anna Heffernan said the school was not being amalgamated with Catholic Cathedral College. Each would remain a separate school community, with its own culture and identity. Marian will Read more
St Anne’s Whanganui won the role of Namibia at the Rippa Rugby World Cup in Auckland. The school’s Rippa team won the Whanganui tournament and the right to represent the city against 19 other regional winners from around the country. In keeping with the Rugby World Cup theme, each team has been allotted one of the Read more
Former St Patrick’s College Wellington rector, Gerard Tully is the new rector at St Patrick’s College Silverstream. The decision was described as “straightforward” by Board of Trustees Chairperson, Denis Boyle. The board viewed Gerard Tully as an extraordinarily well-credentialed person who will bring a wealth of experience to the College. “Most importantly he embodies the Marist charism Read more