URL: Trades academy could take <b>pupils</b> | Otago Daily Times Online News <b>...</b>:
A new trades academy being set up in Cromwell could be expanded to cater for pupils from all six Central Otago and Queenstown-Lakes secondary schools. ... "If the pupil is here [at the polytechnic] one day a week, the funding is interrupted, and for a small school that has an impact," Mrs Tilleyshort said. Mr Ker said the trades ... "You don't have to retain a lot of students [at school] to compensate for the loss of funding [by them attending a trades academy]," he said. ...