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Lecturer relents on students' use of Wikipedia for research

A university lecturer has embraced Wikipedia as part of her teaching after initially shunning the online encyclopedia.

Samoans honoured

<i>Kerre Woodham</i>: Kids need more care abroad

Supervision could have saved teen - report

Members of a school 1st XV with a booze "culture" were left to drink unsupervised for three hours in London on the night a teen sleepwalked to his death.

Phytoplankter knocks speller out

PM opening 'boot camp'

King's party axed after failure to secure bar

Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.

Autistic kids 'left behind'

Knife pulled in school altercation

Quick-thinking staff are being praised after a knife was pulled during an altercation at a Hamilton school this morning.

Uni hits out at lack of funding

Sir Wira to head tertiary education authority

<i>Annemarie Quill:</i> Babies need professionals, not nanas

<i>Editorial:</i> Preschool Budget cuts right move

Olympians step in to give kids an extra push

$40k for 4-page booze study

Teens in distress

Govt puts up $104m for leaky-school repairs, checks

The number of known leaking schools is now 145, double the estimate in September last year. The worst will benefit from $82 million allocated in the Budget for remedial work in the next year.

Smoke dope and become one, study warns

New research suggests cannabis use is dumbing down young people.