Latest Tertiary Education Headlines
New Zealand Education Resource for Future China Business
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:57:40 +1300 | Auckland Chamber of Commerce
Today's China business summit at the Langham Auckland brought together key business leaders from New Zealand and China to review opportunities for doing business in China moving forward.More >>
Top Manawatū student-athletes named
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:16:49 +1300 | Massey University
Rugby player Sarah Goss and taekwon-do champion Kane Baigent were named the sportswoman and man of the year at the BNZ Manawatū Blues Awards last night. More >>
Eleanor Catton’s creative writing students celebrate win
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:06:03 +1300 | Manukau Institute of Technology
A huge roar of delight echoed through the corridors of Manukau Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Creative Arts in Auckland, New Zealand this morning. More >>
One man band leads Pasifika concert
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:35:07 +1300 | Massey University
Pasifika music coordinator at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music, Opeloge Ah Sam, has a pivotal role at this weekend’s “We are Pasifika” concert marking 20 years of the Manukau Symphony Orchestra.More >>
University of Auckland congratulates Eleanor Catton
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:58:35 +1300 | University of Auckland
The University of Auckland congratulates novelist Eleanor Catton for winning the Man Booker prize for her novel The Luminaries at a ceremony in London today. More >>
Students advise on Hamilton’s sustainability direction
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:58:21 +1300 | University of Waikato
A group of Waikato University Environmental Planning students have had the chance to critique the Sustainability Strategy of Hamilton, and offer their thoughts on what it could include in the future.More >>
Otago Polytechnic wins silver for NZ’s Best Product Design
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:41:11 +1300 | Otago Polytechnic
Otago Polytechnic Product Realisation Group, innovation workSpace , have won a silver award for New Zealand’s Best Product Design, for their production of a single-blade wind turbine.More >>
Global thinking brings national recognition
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:34:55 +1300 | Waiariki Institute Of Technology
Working and thinking across the world has seen Waiariki Institute of Technology academic Alan Fowler recognised at the annual Computing and Information Technology, Education and Research in New Zealand awards. The senior computing lecturer was awarded the ...More >>
First specialist stroke nursing course
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:28:54 +1300 | University of Auckland
First specialist stroke nursing course New Zealand’s first specialist stroke nursing course will be underway next year for registered nurses. More >>
Investigation into anti-tumour activities to treat cancer
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:06:53 +1300 | University of Canterbury
A University of Canterbury (UC) postgraduate student has been researching the anti-tumour effects of resveratrol and pterostilbene, which are found naturally in grapes and berries, on ovarian cancer cells. More >>
Manukau Institute of Technology applauds Eleanor Catton
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:53:00 +1300 | Manukau Institute of Technology
New Zealander writer Eleanor Catton has been named the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel “The Luminaries” (Granta/VUP). Catton lectures in Creative Writing at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Auckland.More >>
IITO and Whitireia Provide Insight into Industry
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:53:43 +1300 | Whitireia
The Infrastructure Industry Training Organisation (formally Electrical Standards Industry Training Organisation) in conjunction with Whitireia provided a week’s taster course recently that saw secondary school students and Whitireia Electrical ...More >>
Victoria University graduate wins Man Booker Prize
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:03:36 +1300 | Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University congratulates graduate Eleanor Catton whose novel The Luminaries has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2013 announced this morning. More >>
Massey team wins Engineers Without Borders challenge
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:42:11 +1300 | Massey University
A team of Massey University engineering students has won the top award in this year’s Engineers Without Borders New Zealand University Challenge. More >>
Maori repatriation ceremony - University of Birmingham
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:28:42 +1300 | University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham has discovered a collection of Toi moko (preserved Mäori tattooed heads) which it wishes to reunite with the Maori people. University representatives made contact with cultural organisations in New Zealand to begin the process of repatriating ...More >>
UC researcher looking at impacts of intensive farming
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:25:37 +1300 | University of Canterbury
A group of University of Canterbury (UC) postgraduate students is investigating changes in soil carbon on intensive dairy farms. Biology PhD students Gabriel Moinet and Anna Zakharova and masters student Sam Murray want to know if soil organic carbon ...More >>
Research to investigate possibility of cadmium-free potatoes
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:19:54 +1300 | University of Canterbury
Cadmium-free potatoes, with the help of the research team at the University of Canterbury (UC), may one day help to allay another possible food safety scare. More >>
Top institutions to join forces to tackle poverty
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:07:38 +1300 | World Vision New Zealand
Two of New Zealand’s leading organisations, The University of Otago and World Vision New Zealand, are joining together to enhance their efforts to alleviate poverty both globally and in New Zealand and the Pacific.More >>
Alaskan to carry Olympic torch to the North Pole
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:42:25 +1300 | University of Alaska Fairbanks
University of Alaska Fairbanks vice chancellor and former Olympic shooter Pat Pitney will represent the United States during the North Pole leg of the Olympic Torch Relay beginning this week.More >>
Devil in the Details on Food Taxes and Subsidies
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:47:12 +1300 | University of Otago
Research teams we lead have published two papers in the last few weeks on food taxes and subsidies – both of which depend on what are called price elasticities. Timely, in light of the launch last week of Appetite for Destruction that is focusing public ...More >>
