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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.

Year 11 students from Oamaru’s three high schools ventured out of the classroom and onto the farm for a field day hosted by the North Otago Sustainable Land Management (NOSLaM) group.

A Bay of Plenty school will be able to keep its fruit and veg plants hydrated with the help of a new rainwater tank.

Massey University's School of Agriculture and Environment head says in the future it's likely that more students will do their degrees part time.

Teachers have welcomed a move by the Government to put money into supporting secondary school agricultural and horticultural science and to get more students into a career in the ag and hort sectors.

OPINION: They're about to start teaching New Zealand history in schools.

Covid-19 is creating “amazing opportunities” for wine and viticulture students, says the head of Hawke’s Bay’s viticulture and wine science school. Sue Blackmore, from Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), says closed borders will make wine students far more valuable to companies during vintage, and vintage experience more valuable for students. “We have to enable these students to get out into industry as soon as possible… to hit the ground running.”

St Paul's Collegiate School in Hamilton has come up trumps again at the recent Fieldays Online Innovation Awards.

Now is the time for you to set yourself up for a career in horticulture, explains Peter Kemp, Head of the Institute of Agriculture and Environment at Massey University.