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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.

An exchange student who was drunk and comatose at a school party was allegedly subjected to a sexual act which was filmed and passed around school, the Ministry of Education has been told.

International chart-topper Jack Johnson is getting behind a large-scale Kiwi initiative to clear our beaches of rubbish.