Articles by Dubby Henry, NZ Herald

• Education

  

  Senior students likely to return to school first, Hipkins signals

  Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 4:39PM

  Senior students are likely to be first through the gates when Auckland's schools begin to reopen. Term 4 started this week...

• Education

  

  Home-based educators criticise vaccine mandate rule for households

  Monday, 18 October 2021, 3:02PM

  Some home-based educators are going underground and plan to care for children off the books following the Government's vaccine...

• Education

  

  Raglan Area School allows antivax meetings - says it's trying to avoid division

  Thursday, 14 October 2021, 7:17PM

  A school in Raglan has defended its unusual policy of allowing anti-vaccination meetings on site - saying it wants to avoid...

• Education

  

  'Vacuum' of information leaves principals concerned over vaccine mandate

  Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 8:41PM

  The vast majority of school staff appear to be on board with a new education vaccination mandate - but a small number have...

• Education

  

  'Tricky conversations': Schools react to vaccine mandate for teachers

  Monday, 11 October 2021, 8:49PM

  Principals have expressed relief at the news that teachers will have to be fully vaccinated from next year - though there...

• Covid-19

  

  Surge of cars, long queues at Covid testing centres in Waikato

  Monday, 4 October 2021, 1:27PM

  Long queues are snaking out of testing centres in the Waikato today after parts of the region woke up in level 3 lockdown...

• Education

  

  'It's a goddamn mess': Royal Society report calls for sweeping changes in maths education

  Sunday, 3 October 2021, 3:38PM

  A major new report from the Royal Society Te Apārangi is calling for radical change in how we teach maths and statistics...

• National

  

  Path out of lockdown promised for Auckland but longer alert level 4 likely

  Monday, 13 September 2021, 7:07AM

  COVID LATEST Derek Cheng: The 'handful' of cases likely to extend current alert level settings for everyone Sir Ian Taylor:...

• Education

  

  Hipkins announces criteria for bonus NCEA credits

  Thursday, 2 September 2021, 1:47PM

  Students whose learning has been disrupted by the lockdown will be able to gain bonus NCEA credits - under certain conditions,...

• Education

  

  Visually impaired student in wheelchair 'almost killed' on first day of school

  Saturday, 14 August 2021, 10:39AM

  A visually impaired student was badly injured on his first day at high school after tipping out a doorway face-first on to...

• Education

  

  Special needs taxi contract torn up after two weeks

  Friday, 6 August 2021, 5:55PM

  A taxi company has lost a government contract transporting kids with disabilities to and from school - just two weeks after...

• Education

  

  Professors slammed for letter claiming Māori knowledge is not science

  Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 9:42AM

  A public letter from a group of prominent academics at the University of Auckland that claims Māori knowledge "is not science"...

• National

  

  Kiwis think spreading misinformation should be a crime

  Monday, 26 July 2021, 8:50AM

  Deliberately spreading fake news should be a crime, according to two out of three New Zealanders surveyed - while three quarters...

• Education

  

  School ball strife: Eden Park stops booking balls after complaints

  Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 9:19AM

  Turning up to the school ball in a flash ride is a rite of passage for Kiwi teens - but for some noise-conscious neighbours...

• National

  

  Waikato University professor apologises after using n-word in lecture

  Saturday, 8 May 2021, 9:50AM

  A university professor has apologised after saying the n-word during a lecture, as part of a discussion about the reclamation...

• Health

  

  Long queues at testing centre after two new cases announced

  Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 1:47PM

  The news that New Zealand has two new cases of Covid-19 has sent the public scrambling to get tested for the virus. A queue...

• Dunedin

  

  Coldest June morning in five years: Otago town shivers at -12.3C

  Sunday, 14 June 2020, 12:55PM

  South Islanders have woken to bitter cold this morning - with two towns measuring their lowest June temperatures in decades. Middlemarch...

• National

  

  Covid-19: 13 days in a row! No new virus cases today

  Thursday, 4 June 2020, 1:08PM

  There have been 13 days in a row of no new Covid-19 cases and director general of Health Ashley Bloomfield says New Zealand...

• Auckland

  

  Burst water main closes part of Auckland's Queen St, buses diverted

  Monday, 25 May 2020, 1:59PM

  Lower Queen St in downtown Auckland has been closed due to a burst water main and the timing couldn't be worse as the city...

• Health

  

  Bloomfield: 'Please get your flu jab' as fresh vaccine stocks arrive in NZ

  Thursday, 21 May 2020, 3:29PM

  The Government has secured an extra 360,000 flu vaccines from the Northern Hemisphere - but they won't be suitable for everyone. Director-general...

• Business

  

  Huge backlog of level 3 packages to start moving soon

  Thursday, 21 May 2020, 2:58PM

  A record backlog of parcels from the start of level 3 is likely to start moving by the end of this week, CourierPost says. Four...

• National

  

  Destiny Church service 'civil disobedience' Brian Tamaki says

  Sunday, 17 May 2020, 12:14PM

  Destiny Church in Auckland is holding a service this morning for the first time since the lockdown - and pastor Bishop Brian...

• National

  

  Police investigating two more cell tower fires in Auckland overnight

  Sunday, 17 May 2020, 10:37AM

  Police are investigating after fires at two cell tower sites in the south Auckland suburb of Manurewa last night. The police...

• National

  

  Family mourns young butcher who spoke about his struggles in level 4 lockdown

  Tuesday, 12 May 2020, 4:08PM

  A young Auckland butcher who died suddenly at the weekend has been described as "the absolute heart of his family" and a...