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Teacher wants indecency charge thrown out

Principal calls for fairer funding

The school funding system should be reviewed after enrolment figures showed a growing divide between rich and poor, a leading principal says.

Peter Lyons: Teaching needs more than Govt Band Aid

Peter Lyons writes: Politicians work in three-year time horizons but meaningful change, especially in education, is unlikely to reap benefits within an electoral cycle.

Russell Wills and Phil O'Reilly: Help families and we all win

The Prime Minister recently made two announcements which appear worlds away but are intrinsically linked: making child poverty his priority this term, and attracting skilled people to New Zealand to enable continued economic growth.

Bun of contention

Call it the happy-ever-after meal. About 28 weeks ago, St Dominic's Catholic Primary School principal Daniel Pepper put a McDonald's cheeseburger on display, and he says it hasn't changed since.

IPO plan in big childcare roll-up

Patrick Walsh: Poverty fault line in NZ schools creating ethnic divide

Herald interactive on school deciles confirmation of growing socio-economic divide in this country and that "poverty" is a real rather than imagined issue.

Your Views on the decile drift

Computer study given $870,000

Two University of Canterbury researchers have received $870,000 in Marsden funding over three years to research how engineering and psychology could combine to make wearable computer systems easier....

Kiwi leotards make it to Kenya

Thirteen thousand kilometres from Rotorua, orphans in Kenya are plieing in leotards from the Geyser City.

Gym safety put under spotlight

A horror accident at a North Shore gymnasium which left a school student a quadriplegic came just months after a similar incident in which another teen broke his neck.

'Serpent' to help out in a disaster

An engineering student has designed and built a remote-control robotic snake which he hopes can be used for search and rescue missions.

Junior rugby's big problem

There was nothing illegal about the tackle that left 12-year-old Zachary Hullah in hospital and scared he might be paralysed. It was that the tackler who smashed him was twice his size.

Rugby puts 'little kids in harm's way'

Flimsy rules and poor enforcement around size mismatches in junior rugby risk the welfare of its players, says daughter of All Blacks legend Sir Brian Lochore.

Phew! 13 exams ahead

Catherine Zheng needs to plan her study time more than most, as exams start for her and thousands of other students.

Rugby mum's safety crusade

Flimsy rules and poor enforcement around size mismatches are putting children in harm's way on the rugby field, says a Masterton mother.