February 2009 we wrote about a large scale brawl at Hutt Valley High School and a series of disturbing serious assaults at the school which resulted in parents calling for an investigation by the Human Rights Commissioner into human rights abuses at the Wellington school. We wrote in Gang fight at Hutt Valley High School…
Most of New Zealand’s universities have continue to slide further down a major international league table after again failing to be placed in the world’s top 50 universities. The QS World University Rankings 2010/2011 have just been published. No New Zealand university made it to the top 50 and only one was placed in the…
Lost among the hype of New Zealand’s recently released 2010 crime figures were some shocking data about child violence. The stats make for grim reading as they come at a time when schoolyard bullying and violent assaults are frequently in the New Zealand news. Police crime statistics showed the number of children under 9 apprehended…
Hadlin Onverwacht is a 13 year old teen who left the troubles of South Africa four years ago. Unfortunately when she emigrated from South Africa to New Zealand she never imagined that she was exchanging one set of strife and tribulations for another when she became a pupil at Mount Roskill Grammar School in Auckland. If you…
Welcome to the next installment in our series of what Kiwis say about NZ – first hand accounts of life in New Zealand from the people who actually live there. The highly regarded state Auckland Grammar School recently announced its decision to abandon the NCEA examination system in preference for the Cambridge Examination System. It will…
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