Early childhood education leader Jenny Yule, has been named as finalist for one of the world’s most prestigious business awards – the Veuve Clicquot NZ Business Woman of the Year.

Local primary and intermediate school students are being offered the chance to have their very own story idea developed into a real book.

Sanitarium Nutrition Service has launched a new senior Home Economics teaching resource called Vegetarian Choice for the 2010 school year.

Thirteen universities in Australia and NZ have selected Century of Social Sciences(TM), a superior and unique set of archival data (backfiles) covering ground breaking research in the social sciences back to 1900, from Thomson Reuters for their education and research needs.

ENGLAND – Parents will be targeted in a newly launched campaign, to help raise awareness of the range of activities, services and advice available through schools, as latest data shows that more than 90 per cent of schools are now offering extended services.

“After the first day at Porirua College I wondered what I’d got myself into. I couldn’t pronounce many of the students’ or teachers’ names, I had no idea of their background and little idea of where to start in terms of building relationships with them – well, without sounding a bit thick or ignorant… at this point I knew I had a challenge ahead of me,” Helen Hardwick (HOD PE Porirua College).