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Teacher dismissed over texts to student

Tolley promises 'hard' fight for school funding

Anne Tolley has told secondary schools the Government is serious about education, but the next few years will not see a great deal of new money.

Is television bad for children?

School wins $5K prize

Never let young watch TV: experts

Young children should not watch any TV because it sets them up for obesity and poor academic performance at school, say experts.

<i>Editorial:</i> Social web use best protected via education

Watching TV 'makes toddlers less intelligent'

Parents, beware: watching television makes toddlers fatter and stupider at primary school, according to new research.

Pick-up parents fined for traffic chaos

Brothel could be removed lawfully - expert

A law expert says Waitakere City Council is wrong to think it cannot help a school that wants a nearby brothel removed.

NCEA more popular at the chalkface

School points to bylaw in brothel row

A school chairman calls for Waitakere City to step in after learning Rodney has a bylaw stopping a brothel opening near a school.

Unitec plans big campus expansion in Mt Albert

Visionary Maori project celebrates 25th birthday

Parents in shock at brothel by school

The owner of a brothel opposite a school says people should be more worried about children watching violent TV than his business.

School incensed brothel has opened across the road

A west Auckland intermediate school is outraged it can do nothing about a brothel which has opened across the road.

Award is nice but Olympic hero's dream is of cash

Sir John Walker lobbies ministers to help his successful youth programmes.