Beyond the spirit educator

Beyond the spirit educator

An essen­tial skill taught when I atten­ded teach­ers’ col­lege as a train­ee in the 1970s was how to thread a pro­ject­or. In those sim­pler days, show­ing a film to a […]

Gently does it

Gently does it

I’m not a neur­os­cient­ist — this won’t come as a sur­prise to any­one who has read my columns I’m guess­ing — but I won­der if a chem­ic­al reac­tion occurs in […]

The Creative hub

The Creative hub

Over the hill and not too far away sits a beau­ti­fully haunt­ing house in the middle of New­town. The his­tor­ic man­sion has been trans­formed into a much-loved and well-known student […]

The Interview: Sima Urale

The Interview: Sima Urale

Sima Urale is a film­maker, a writer and an act­or. Born in Sam­oa, and ini­tially raised in the vil­lages of Fagamalo and Matavai, she migrated with her fam­ily to New […]

NCEA: Report Card

NCEA: Report Card

On the fol­low­ing pages, Fish­Head presents its annu­al sur­vey of the region’s sec­ond­ary schools’ NCEA res­ults. This year we have tried to com­pare schools against their own pre­vi­ous year’s results […]

Education: Beggars and choosers

Education: Beggars and choosers

Classroom. Tick. School books. Tick. Teach­ers and assist­ing staff. Tick. School trips? Maybe Equal oppor­tun­it­ies? In the pipeline. Fun­drais­ing ini­ti­at­ives take place in schools and col­leges across New Zea­l­and and […]

Alleyways

Alleyways

Alley­ways give a dif­fer­ent, scruffily inter­est­ing, back-door view of a city and Wel­ling­ton is no excep­tion. I spent a recent after­noon wan­der­ing the alleys of Te Aro. There is a […]

Toss a Coin

Toss a Coin

He’s become a well-known fig­ure around Cour­tenay Place, Mr Excuse Me. He’s not quite up there with Blanket­man, but in our hood Mr Excuse Me is a like­able vag­a­bond. He’s […]

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