A high school offering traditional activities and languages for Pasifika girls will open its doors to 120 students in Term 1 next year. Sisters United Academy, sponsored by Auckland youth organisation ...

Some reasons for optimism and pessimism in the poll of Palestinians in the West Bank. Only 26% support and 46% oppose what Hamas did on 7 October 2023 Only 31% support kidnapping of civilians and 57% ...

Over in Papatoetoe in the south of the city, police are investigating alleged election fraud after a surprise result that saw every member of a new political ticket elected in a landslide. The vote ...

A good report from the NZ Initiative that looks at whether ownership of state houses is the best way to help low income NZ families with housing. Some key extracts: Kāinga Ora manages over 77,000 ...

A lawyer who smuggled contraband into prison for a convicted rapist and murderer, who she later married, is trying again to be readmitted as a lawyer. Davina Reid (née Murray) was acting for Liam Reid ...

Some great data from the ERO on student attendance. They find: Now nearly six in ten students (58 percent) are attending regularly, up from four in ten (40 percent) in 2022. Attitudes drive attendance ...

Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ...

ERO has done a report on how the changes to literacy and numeracy are going. It is over 150 pages long, but here are some key extracts: 98% of schools report they have started teaching the refreshed E ...

King Charles has officially begun the process of removing all titles and honours from his brother, Prince Andrew, Buckingham Palace has announced. Andrew will from today be known as Andrew Mountbatten ...

Following recommendations from the Science System Advisory Group, a single, independent board, called Research Funding New Zealand, will be established to make most funding decisions. “The message ...

The Government’s fees-free policy reset is at risk of following its predecessor in failing to incentivise tertiary study and only benefiting the more advantaged. The warning is included in a Ministry ...

Michael Littlewood of pensions policy fame has written a novel about his great great great grandparents - William and Tiraha. The blurb is: Paihia, 1823, and William Cook is injured, abandoned by his ...