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The real winner of this year’s FMG Young Farmer Region-off have been the regional communities.

Rural schools could face a dual resourcing crisis when it comes to learning support specialists.

OPINION: The Hound reckons school teachers like nothing better than to complain constantly about how tough things are for them and that their generous holidays are all spent ‘marking school work and preparing for next term ahead’.

A new report has revealed the full impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on Hawke’s Bay’s principals and teachers.

Rural primary schools have received more than $109,000 from ANZCO Foods as part of the company’s Sponsor a School Programme, with several recipients located in the South Island.

The Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology has launched its new Level 2 Sustainable Horticulture programme.

Forty-five primary schools across New Zealand will soon be better equipped to teach students about where food and fibre comes from.

OPINION: Another school farm facing the chopping block is that of Te Awamutu College in Waikato.

OPINION: At a time when some people are working to narrow the rural-urban divide, one Canterbury school is closing its farm.

Rural Communities Minister Kieran McAnulty says rural communities will benefit from education and transport funding announced in today’s budget.