Posts Tagged ‘Schools’

Ireland: Change in school patronage plans welcomed

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

There has been a broad welcome to suggested changes to Ireland’s Catholic school patronage though one group said some proposals would “seriously undermine the identity of denominational schools”. The report of the Advisory Group of the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism, which has been written to give guidance on how best to transfer Catholic schools Read more

Facebook photos no obstacle to Philippines school graduation

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Catholic girls who were originally barred from their school graduation for placing images of themselves in bikinis at a beach party on their facebook pages will be able to join the ceremony. A regional court in Cebu has cleared the way for the students saying the officials at St Teresa’s College had no right to Read more

The LDS church has more schools in Tonga than any where else

Friday, March 16th, 2012

The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, LDS, has more schools in Tonga than anywhere else in the world. The LDS Church has 17 middle and high schools throughout the world, and 15 of those schools are in the Pacific, in Tonga, Fiji, Samoa and Kiribati, and seven of the 15 schools Read more

David Don jailed for defrauding St Pat’s

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

A school official who defrauded Wellington’s St Patrick’s College of more than $126,000 has been jailed for two years. David Don was sentenced on Friday 3 February in the Wellington District Court on eight charges of dishonestly accessing a computer system and one charge of money laundering. As executive officer of the school he stole Read more

Football rivals pray for unborn

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Before the great annual battle on the football field between the Sacred Heart Indians and the St. Paul Cardinals, (which occurs this year on Saturday, Oct. 29 in Hallettsville at 4:30 p.m.) the two schools have united their spiritual efforts in the battle for life by praying for an end to abortion, for the protection of the unborn, and for the healing for those who had had abortions.

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St Pat’s Silverstream star ends school with 225

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Henry Walsh, St Pat’s Silverstream’s cricket star saved his best for last when he signed off his school career in spectacular fashion last week.

Walsh, a powerful right-hand batsman, was playing his last game for St Pat’s Silverstream when he scored 225 – out of a total of 369 – from 245 balls in the traditional fixture against St Bede’s College in Christchurch.

Walsh’s mammoth effort, which included seven sixes and 24 fours, took Silverstream from a precarious position to one of dominance.

It included a 186-run eighth-wicket partnership with Gareth Hitchman, with Hitchman’s contribution 36.

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Secularists score two big wins in Australian education system

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Australian schools will be able to choose to employ chaplains or secular welfare officers in a programme announced recently by Education Minister Peter Garrett. According to the ABC, the $222 million program has been under fire since being announced in the budget, with the Greens concerned that chaplains had to be attached to religious organisations Read more