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Posted at 7:05am Saturday 11th May, 2013 | By Merle Foster merle@thesun.co.nz
 Plans for Harold the Giraffe’s new mobile classroom are underway following the fiery destruction of a Life Education Trust Western Bay of Plenty mobile unit last year.
The new unit will be the first in New Zealand to feature Microsoft Kinect technology – which can replicate a person’s skeleton and organs as they stand in front of...
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Posted at 7:00am Monday 06th May, 2013 | By Zoe Hunter zoe@thesun.co.nz
 Students could soon be able to sit school assessments when they are ready, instead of having to wait for the end of year final exam period.
As part of its Future State project, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority is looking at developing a vision to guide the system through the next decade of education.
Tauranga Boys’ College student Daniel...
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Posted at 2:52pm Saturday 27th Apr, 2013 | By Zoe Hunter zoe@thesun.co.nz
 More Tauranga students are achieving NCEA Level 2 or higher according to 2012 NCEA results released earlier this month.
In 2012, 76 per cent of 16-year-olds achieved at least NCEA Level 2 - a four per cent increase from the year before.
More Bay of Plenty students are achieving NCEA pass rates. File photo.
Final NCEA results from 2012 show 68 per cent...
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Posted at 8:23am Thursday 25th Apr, 2013
 A University of Waikato social work graduate says he owes his success to the on-going support of his family.
Mark Bramley, who graduated at the University’s Tauranga ceremony on Friday, was chosen to speak on behalf of students during the ceremony.
University of Waikato social work graduate Mark Bramley at the Tauranga graduation.
While graduation...
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Posted at 5:22pm Monday 22nd Apr, 2013
 A busy news week, including flooding around the region, has shown SunLive.co.nz is the leading local 24 hour news service - and the latest figures prove it.
From the early hours of Saturday morning SunLive.co.nz reporters and photographers were out in the floods keeping readers up to date with all the latest as local residents battled waterlogged...
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Posted at 7:00am Tuesday 16th Apr, 2013 | By Zoe Hunter zoe@thesun.co.nz
 As teachers take to the streets in protest of the planned education reforms Labour education spokesperson Chris Hipkins says the National government is attempting to fix something that’s not broken.
Chris, who visited Tauranga schools yesterday and spoke to a group of NZ Education Institution representatives and teachers, told Otumoetai Primary...
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Posted at 1:28pm Sunday 14th Apr, 2013 | By Merle Foster merle@thesun.co.nz
 More than 100 Bay of Plenty students are geared to compete in a sustainability battle next week at Papamoa College.
Enviro Challenge Competition school team coach of Aquinas College, Steve Ellingford with Bayfair’s recycling system.
Seven Bay schools each have 10 to 15 students battling for the Enviro Challenge Competition 2013 title by using...
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Posted at 10:56am Sunday 14th Apr, 2013 | By Zoe Hunter zoe@thesun.co.nz
 After more than 10 years of submissions, a lower speed limit past Oropi School and a new footpath will be put in place following approval by Western Bay of Plenty District Council.
Oropi School principal Andrew King is pleased council has approved the school’s submissions.
The proposal by Oropi School to lower the speed limit past the school,...
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Posted at 7:01am Sunday 14th Apr, 2013 | By Zoe Hunter zoe@thesun.co.nz
 As the number of children attending preschool continues to rise, statistics show Tauranga has already met the Government’s future Early Childhood Education goal.
Data from 2012 shows 98.1 per cent of Tauranga children who started school during 2012 had participated in early childhood education – just more than the Government’s national...
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Posted at 2:38pm Saturday 13th Apr, 2013
 Around 700 people attended the graduation celebration of Bethlehem Tertiary Institute on Devonport Road today.
The annual graduation ceremony saw 115 people from BTI’s range of Teacher Education and Counsellor Education programmes graduate and marking the institute’s 20th anniversary as a tertiary provider.
Bethlehem Tertiary Institute celebrating...
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