News in Brief

Student Mason F. from Sherwood Primary on Auckland’s North Shore has taken out top place in the 8 – 10 year category of the 2011 World Maths Day on March 1st.

The World Maths Day challenge is an online event with over 2.4 million students from 234 countries participating in 60 second challenges over a 48 hour period.

Some of the world’s leading physicists and chemists are in Wellington next week for a conference to discuss exciting advances in their fields. 

The conference-AMN-5, which runs from 7th to 11th February, 2011-is hosted by the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, a national Centre of Research Excellence, based at Victoria University. 

A small group of reading and dyslexia specialists of the Education Weekly are on their way to the International Dyslexia Association’s (IDA) annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

Career Services has launched a new email service, which will provide teachers, mentors or sports coaches with a range of practical tools, information and support for helping teensmake good career and education decision

The NZ Teachers Council invites teachers to a breakfast on 29 October in Wellington to celebrate the contribution teachers make to educate our youngest citizens.

Professional historians say they are alarmed about what a proposed multi-million dollar redevelopment of National Library could mean for access to vital historical documents.

$41 million for school buildings

Eighty-one schools around the country will get new or expanded buildings through the first allocation of property funding to schools under the government’s recently announced infrastructure package, education minister Anne Tolley has announced.

Earthrace NZ tour

Earthrace – the world record breaking powerboat for circumnavigation of the globe will be touring NZ for the next four months.

Alliance Party launches Drop Debt Today Campaign

Parents can claim one-third back on school fees