National standards by stealth? Why the government’s latest plan for schools might fail the history test
Standardised testing has been tried and scrapped before. But with a tender for a new ‘standardised assessment tool’, the ...
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Six Bay teams compete in school surfing festival
Six Bay of Plenty school teams are set to compete in this week’s New Zealand School Surfing Festival at Maukatia-Māori Bay, ...
Explainer: Why does everyone get so bloody angry about schoolboy rugby?
Jamie Wall reveals just what's going on in yet another controversy rocking the often turbulent and bizarre school rugby ...
Tauranga Boys' secures Bay of Plenty schools' debating title
Tauranga Boys’ College has won the Cooney Lees Morgan Bay of Plenty Regional Schools’ Debating Championships for the third ...
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Are private schools better than public schools in New Zealand?
St Cuthbert's College is one of New Zealand's best-performing schools for academic results. (Image: St Cuthbert's) The judge, while validating some of the father’s concerns, sided with the ...