The decision of the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology to axe its science course is to the detriment of the Nelson region according to those in the industry. The Diploma in Applied Science was discontinued last year after only one person enrolled.

Police divers yesterday found a suitcase belonging to a Nelson man who disappeared after his car plunged into the Buller River this month.

The Cawthron Institute is one of New Zealand's quiet achievers.

The reform documents of the 1990s stressed that science is not practiced by a rigid scientific method, but science texts continue to describe the process as if it were rigid and linear.