Owners and management of Te Aute College have taken the rare step of seeking a Commissioner to help save the historic Hawke's Bay school from extinction after 156 years as a stalwart of Maori education in New Zealand.

A clean-up began yesterday at a primary school left in ruins after a fire swept through a third of its buildings on Friday.

A blaze which "totalled" a block at Auckland's Glendowie Primary School is being investigated as an arson.

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NZ student loan borrowers in Australia who told Inland Revenue to 'go to hell' could find themselves before the courts.

Universal or voluntary membership? That was the question put to tertiary students in 1999 after the National Government passed a law insisting they choose how they should belong to their student association.

The daughter of an Outback stockman has been named Australia's first indigenous Rhodes Scholar.

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour has been arrested over his involvement in the student protests in London last week.

Research shows the Fruit in Schools scheme is helping kids stay focused and better behaved in the classroom.