Hanna McCallum

The Ministry of Education says it is unable to confirm what the next steps for the redevelopment of Wellington Girls' College's earthquake prone building will be as students return to temporary classrooms next week.

The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is changing the way it reports on NCEA level 1 as a growing number of schools choose not to offer the optional course.

Street lamps around the capital city had to be manually turned on on Saturday night after a fault in the automated function left the city in the dark for a few hours.

Just under 8000 attendees flocked to NZCIS Wellington Cup Day, bringing back pre-Covid numbers on a day of bright sunshine – a contrast to the last couple of years.

When Aloma Barry noticed a group of girls were finding it difficult to integrate with their peers during school lunch breaks, she sourced funding and a local young female skateboard instructor to run a programme at their school.

As schools gear up to return to classrooms, a nationwide teacher shortage has many scrambling to fill positions.

More than a dozen Canterbury schools face the prospect of starting the school year without key leaders.

What drives Education Minister Erica Stanford in her work is to enable young people to “do whatever it is they want with their lives”, she says.

He was taken to Wellington Hospital following an altercation with another person at Hutt Hospital on December 27.

An uptake in schools offering Cambridge International Education qualifications instead of Aotearoa's national qualification, NCEA, hasn't really surprised Aotea College principal Kate Gainsford.