Talented teen wows jury of poets
Talented teenager Eden Tautali from St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland has wowed the jury at the National Schools Poetry Award for 2011 with a personal account of grief.The Year 13 student’s poem Nan...
View ArticleYear 13 student 8th fastest in the world
Y13 student Elise Salt was the fastest NZ schoolgirl, the 2nd fastest New Zealander and the 8th fastest junior triathlete in the world on Sunday in the ITU World Championship Junior Elite Women’s...
View ArticleWanganui Collegiate to be integrated
From January next year, Wanganui Collegiate will be a part of the state schooling network. It will continue to offer the same quality education that it is known for, but will have much reduced fees. As...
View ArticleFuture scientists nurtured in school environment
The only two women who have ever won New Zealand’s most coveted science and technology award, the Rutherford Medal, are both Old Girls from Auckland’s Diocesan School for Girls.
View ArticleNZ’s INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE RESULTS AMONG BEST IN WORLD
New Zealand has this year produced more than twice as many International Baccalaureate Top Scholars as the world average and its 97 per cent pass rate is the second highest in the Asia Pacific region.
View ArticleNew Zealand students achieve Top of the World Cambridge Awards
Larne Edmeades, Principal of ACG Parnell College is a very proud man. Four of his students were told this morning that they attained Top in the World awards in the Cambridge International Exams. This...
View ArticleIncrease in private school funding?
The Government is considering advice about subsidies for private schools and teacher unions fear it will increase them and index them to that of state schools.Radio New Zealand's education...
View ArticleBank’s son’s military prep school believed to be one of first Charter schools
The Government is believed to be negotiating with a final four organisations over their proposals to set up charter schools, including a military prep school for teens which ACT leader John Bank's son...
View ArticleNZ school group looks to open in Tauranga
Academic Colleges Group (ACG) recently purchased 14ha of land on the corner of Keenan Road and Pyes Pa Road (SH 36) in Tauranga. ACG is developing plans for resource consent approval of a new...
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