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Unitec members of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) have been striking intermittently since September 16, hitting students in the crucial exam period. The most recent action targeting students has been threats of withholding exam marks which will result ... More >>
In a surprise move student representation has been recommended to be removed from the governance councils of polytechnics. More >>
The Government’s plan to seize greater control of polytechnic governing councils has become even worse with the decision to remove dedicated positions for student or staff representatives, says Labour’s Tertiary Education spokesperson Maryan ... More >>
Student representatives are outraged at today’s release of an Education and Science Select Committee report on a Bill which will fundamentally alter the nature and quality of Polytechnic Councils. More >>
Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley has welcomed the changes to the Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Bill made through the Select Committee process. More >>
Two medical students have been awarded the prestigious John McLeod scholarships this year for demonstrated academic excellence. More >>
What’s new on NewsWire.co.nz, the website of Whitireia Community Polytechnic’s Journalism School The best of a swag of new stories and images this week by students of Whitireia Journalism School’s National Diploma in Journalism (Multi-media): More >>
The University, in partnership with the tertiary education sector unions, is to undertake a pay and employment equity review to determine the extent to which gender affects women's pay and employment experiences, and to find ways to remove barriers and achieve ... More >>
Thomas Hills, Alice Irving and Richard Stebbing have been selected as Rhodes Scholars following a selection meeting at Government House in Auckland yesterday. Tenable at Oxford University, Rhodes Scholarships constitute the pinnacle of achievement ... More >>
Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics are not in the troubled financial straits that the Minister of Education has suggested, according to data released yesterday by her Ministry. More >>
Police have been conducting an enquiry into the availability of forged tertiary documentation in Auckland. The documents include forged degrees, diplomas, academic records and other supporting documentation. Investigations culminated in the arrest of three ... More >>
Richard Stebbing, a University of Auckland engineering student with a passion for medical imaging, has been awarded an esteemed Rhodes Scholarship. More >>
The best in business congregated at the Lower Hutt Town Hall earlier this month for the Hutt Valley Business Excellence Awards. This year, the inaugural Apprentice of the Year Award was added to the list of honours, won by Wellington Institute of Technology ... More >>
Victoria University will confer honorary degrees on Graham Malaghan, Chairman of the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, and Emeritus Professor Alan Ward, a New Zealand colonial history scholar. More >>
IRL Research Engineer Paul Harris was last night awarded the RJ Scott medal for his significant contributions to the development and application of electronic devices in New Zealand. Bestowed by the Royal Society of New Zealand, the medal is awarded ... More >>
Health and Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson has been appointed to a chair in law at The University of Auckland. He will finish his present post at the end of March 2010 (completing ten years as Commissioner) and take up his professorship at ... More >>
Today is the day when New Zealand women effectively begin working for free until the end of the year, says the TEU Women’s Officer, Suzanne McNabb. “Women are paid at least 12% less than men (in average hourly earnings), and from today, 18 ... More >>
The Government’s summer research scholarships scheme has proved to be a success says Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley. “I’m delighted that so many students have taken the opportunity to apply for these $5,000 scholarships," says Mrs Tolley. ... More >>
Whanganui UCOL’s First Year Bachelor of Nursing students have once again taken up the challenge to fundraise for the victims of the Tsunami in Samoa. Following on from the successful Australian Bush Fire Appeal in February this year, the students ... More >>
A new Samoan language coursebook written by Victoria University Senior lecturer Galumalemana Afeleti Hunkin shows the growing prominence of the Samoan language in New Zealand and the world. More >>
Tertiary Education Union members at Waikato Institute of Technology have voted today to withhold student marks as part of their ongoing industrial action. They join their colleagues at Unitec and Whitireia Polytechnic in the withholding of all student ... More >>
Tertiary Education Union members at Waikato Institute of Technology have voted today to withhold student marks as part of their ongoing industrial action. They join their colleagues at Unitec and Whitireia Polytechnic in the withholding of all student ... More >>
NorthTec landscape student Katie Hilford has been selected as one of five competitors from around New Zealand in the newly-established Emerging Designer’s category at the Ellerslie International Flower Show in Christchurch in March of next year. Katie ... More >>
Conservation House foyer, 18-32 Manners Street, Wellington. Open to the public weekdays, 9am to 5pm ,18 November – 1 December 2009. Part of the BLOW.o9 Festival More >>
Three years of hard work was put to the test today as hundreds of students across the country sat their State final exams to become registered nurses. At Whitireia Community Polytechnic 44 third year Bachelor of Nursing students were sitting final ... More >>
Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec) continues to build its reputation abroad for excellence in education. The largest culinary school in the country and a Centre of Vocational Excellence in Hospitality and Tourism, WelTec is taking its recipe ... More >>
Whangarei MP and Minister for Fisheries and Housing Mr Phil Heatley toured NorthTec’s purpose-built trades training facility Future Trades last week during an information evening that attracted a more than 30 prospective students and their families (subs ... More >>
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) has been approaching universities seeking their help to prevent foreign states getting their hands on technology associated with weapons of mass destruction. Director of the SIS, Dr Warren Tucker, sent a letter ... More >>
ParaCo Technologies Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of AgResearch Limited, has announced it has signed agreements with a number of research groups giving it exclusive animal health screening rights for a number of potentially active biological molecules. ... More >>
David Barrow, President of the National Union of Students (NUS) in Australia, is the special guest of the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations this week, undertaking a speaking tour with student leaders, the tertiary sector and political ... More >>
Unitec students could fail their courses as a result of persistent striking from Unitec staff. Unitec members of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) have been striking intermittently since September 16, hitting students in the crucial exam period. Today ... More >>
The engineering industry is buzzing with news that the highly-anticipated Bachelor of Engineering Technology has been approved by the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics Quality (ITPQ). More >>
Award-winning author of fiction Sue Francis of Waihao Downs, near Waimate, knows how to inspire readers and judges with her literary craft and compelling stories. But the national winner of last month’s Sunday Star Times short story award also ... More >>
Professor Klaus Bosselmann is the first winner of the Senior Scholarship Prize awarded by the IUCN Academy for Environmental Law. He is Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law (NZCEL) at The University of Auckland. The prize was inaugurated ... More >>
TEU’s first annual conference concluded this week unanimously voting support for its members in the six polytechnics currently in dispute with their employers. Tertiary Education Union members at Whitireia Polytechnic, Waikato Institute of Technology, ... More >>
Yesterday (Wed 11 Nov) Hawke’s Bay Regional Council took another step towards addressing water quality issues in the upper Mohaka and Taharua Rivers with the adoption of the Taharua Strategy. This strategy sets out an approach, key steps and timeframes ... More >>
Treasury is advising that government’s investment in education may have to decline from its current 6.4 percent of GDP to less than 4 percent by 2050. It wants government to achieve that cut in funding by shifting more of the cost of education services ... More >>
The Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) has confirmed its mid year decision to remove the Toga Parade from its Orientation programme. The decision was made after the April release of an independent report into this year’s event, conducted by ... More >>
The Open Polytechnic has taken out the top award at the Hutt Valley Business Excellence Awards held in Lower Hutt recently (6th November). More >>
Visitors to Wanganui’s Saturday market are likely to notice something colourfully cultural underfoot. First year English students from the UCOL’s Computer Graphic Design programme will use an unusual medium to share their poetry skills with the ... More >>
Six of the ten newly elected Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand (FRSNZ) are from The University of Auckland. "Fellowship of the Royal Society signifies national recognition of academic excellence and we are delighted that our researchers have ... More >>
Three outstanding Year 13 high school students are the recipients of Mike Pero Mortgages’ Foundation tertiary education scholarships for 2010. “We are delighted to announce the three winners who will receive scholarships, two of $5,000 and one of $2,500, ... More >>
Professor Jim Jones has been appointed to the second professorial position at the New Zealand Biochar Research Centre. Professor Jones, a chemical engineer, joins soil scientist Associate Professor Marta Camps as a co-director of the centre. Together ... More >>
Social workers should draw on their experiences with clients in difficulty to highlight the serious need for policy change on issues such as housing, income support and mental health treatment, says social work and social policy researcher Associate ... More >>
As many of our graduating 3D animation students are in the middle of finals completing their 2nd years, they are already getting job offers from companies. 3D animation students have already been scouted by major motion picture studios, and others by ... More >>
Student leaders are calling for common sense and a collective approach to funding the tertiary sector, in light of backward and out-of-date suggestions from some quarters. More >>
Ten high achieving UCOL students will get tangible support for further study with the awarding of annual scholarships this week. More >>
Whitireia Community Polytechnic’s new issue of 4th Floor, the online literary journal featuring writing from the Creative Writing Programme, is launched for eager web-readers today. This year’s edition is not only bristling with well-known authors and talented ... More >>
A management lecturer who brings real-world consulting into the classroom and an economist who draws on the slave trade in the Sudan to illustrate economic principles are the winners of this year’s Waikato Management School Outstanding Teaching Awards. More >>
Complex engineering problems and their solutions will be on display in an exhibition that caps four years of study for engineering students at the Wellington campus. Observe, Invent, Realise will be held at the Holiday Inn on Wednesday and showcases ... More >>
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc), the Law Commission and the Ministry of Justice are co-hosting a seminar next month for legal, media and Internet professionals to discuss issues around suppression orders, contempt of court and the Internet. The ... More >>
Greater emphasis is required on the secondary-tertiary interface, according to the NZVCC submission on the Government’s Draft Tertiary Education Strategy 2010-2015. On the strategy priority of more young people gaining degrees, the Committee suggests ... More >>
The e-centre, the University’s business incubator unit at the Albany campus has organised Entrepreneurs Day on November 17, which offers a free 20-minute appointment with an expert for anyone with a business idea. The "E-Day" initiative is part of ... More >>
A clever idea has won a University of Waikato final-year computer graphic design student an internship with e-design company Digital Stream. Marc McHardy’s interactive poster, developed for his degree show project, impressed Digital Stream director ... More >>
An increase in the number of completions of qualifications and programmes by people signed up to training agreements with Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) in 2008 is a good sign for the New Zealand workforce. Figures just released by the Tertiary ... More >>
A panel of futurists and inspirational speakers has been lined up to take part in a special seminar in Auckland on 29th November aimed at countering popular anxiety about the apocalyptic predictions about the year 2012. More >>
An edible exhibition of architecturally designed cakes and showpieces will mark the finale of a year of training for promising young bakers and pastry chefs at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT). More >>
Stephen De Pledge is one of the most exciting and versatile musicians of his generation. He studied at The University of Auckland, and then with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His career was launched after winning the Gold ... More >>
UCOL wanted only the best for its new web site – including the best young designer. More >>
“WONDERFULLY evocative” were Prince Edward’s words, after he saw a show he requested from Whitireia students. More >>
Strikes at polytechnics in Northland, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Hamilton, Auckland and Porirua look set to continue for another week after employers failed to change their position after this week’s strikes. Staff at six polytechnics resumed industrial ... More >>
A retired Judge who made a significant impact in the field of law has been awarded a Higher Doctorate from Victoria University. More >>
NorthTec’s Kerikeri campus is currently hosting clay artist Jim Cooper as part of its visiting educator programme. More >>
The Northland region will be treated to a feast of creative output from NorthTec students at exhibitions around the region in November and December. More >>
Professor Marco Frascari, a world authority on architectural drawing, will give the keynote address at an Auckland symposium on 13 November. More >>
The Industry Training Federation is calling on the Government to link its Tertiary Education Strategy to labour market outcomes. In its submission on the strategy, the Federation says developing skills isn’t enough on its own to drive the economy ... More >>
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week has seen industrial action at Whitireia Community Polytechnic by tutors belonging to the Tertiary Education Union (TEU). Around 100 out of a total of 300 teaching staff belong to this union, although there have been ... More >>
An article in today's Press newspaper regarding salary payments made in 2008 to former Vice-Chancellor Dr Roy Sharp and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Town was based on incorrect information contained within the State Services Commission annual report. ... More >>
Third-year Bachelor of Business Studies student Valeria Kern has won a Zonta International Jane M Klausman Women in Business Scholarship, one of just 12 worldwide this year. More >>
Staff at Whitireia Polytechnic intend to be at the Wellington Performing Arts Centre on Vivian St at 11.30 this morning to greet Prince Edward. Staff who are union members at Whitireia Polytechnic been in negotiations for nearly eight months now, including ... More >>
Fine furniture and visual images by UCOL staff and students is on show now at Te Manawa. It is the first time that work produced by students and staff from these two iconic UCOL programmes has been exhibited together. The joint graduate exhibition ... More >>
University of Auckland physics student Yvette Perrott has been awarded a Rutherford Scholarship to support her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she will work in the laboratory once led by Lord Ernest Rutherford. "Winning the Rutherford Scholarship ... More >>
Universities strongly back findings in a report on the economic benefits of publicly-funded research produced by the Government’s Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman. Their representative body – the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee ... More >>
Central Otago residents can look at building themselves a better future thanks to a nationwide sustainable housing competition being driven by Otago Polytechnic. A team led by Otago Polytechnic and consisting of about 50 people from Alexandra, Clyde, ... More >>
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, former Director of The University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute, is one of a number of eminent international medical scientists and educators calling for evolutionary biology to be a core subject in medical schools. The recommendation, ... More >>
With purse strings easing, smart, forward-thinking companies will be looking to capitalise on the prospect of new opportunities. This means the labour market is about to heat up. And from the perspective of students, the timing couldn’t be better. The key ... More >>
Unitec students could fail their courses as a result of persistent striking from Unitec staff. Unitec members of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) have been striking intermittently since September 16, hitting students in the crucial exam preparation ... More >>
Three New Zealand university students have been awarded scholarships from the Rutherford Foundation to undertake their PhDs at the University of Cambridge in England. More >>
A group of young people in foster care will today receive awards celebrating their achievements. Run by Child Youth and Family, the William Wallace Awards are a result of a bequest made by William Wallace and into their fourth year. The 13 young winners ... More >>
Some large remuneration increases for the chief executives and vice chancellors in the tertiary education sector during 2008 are revealed in the State Services Commission’s just released Annual Report. The University of Auckland’s vice-chancellor saw his ... More >>
Staff at the six polytechnics that had been on strike during September have resumed industrial action after mediation between their employers and them failed to resolve the dispute. 950 union member academics at NorthTec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Waikato ... More >>
Education Minister Anne Tolley and China’s Ambassador to New Zealand, Mr Zhang Limin, today signed an education agreement at Parliament which focuses on enhancing education research, science and technology links between New Zealand and China. The ... More >>
Wanganui people have the chance to learn the intricacies of decorative sugar art from one of the country’s top pastry chefs at Whanganui UCOL’s Summer School of the Arts in January. More >>
An agreement establishing a Confucius Institute at the University of Canterbury has been signed by the First Vice-Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. More >>
The Cognition Education Trust announced its major new philanthropic initiative when it launched the Cognition Institute in Auckland on Saturday night. The Cognition Institute is intended to be a thought leader in New Zealand education dedicated to ... More >>
Electronic advertising stands are appearing in shopping malls and public places across the country, but to date they’re limited to static posters that rotate or simple animations. That may be about to change, thanks to an ingenious idea by a University ... More >>
Anne Tolley's refusal to provide correspondence about night class cuts from National MPs to herself and John Key, on the grounds that it would take too much work to collate, suggests the pair have been deluged with correspondence from unhappy National backbenchers, ... More >>
A combined effort between a Wintec student and a tutor saw a business paper take best student paper at the New Zealand Applied Business Educators conference in Rotorua recently. More >>
A group of MBA students leave for China next Thursday for a study tour. About 20 students and staff will spend 10 days in the cities of Shanghai and Suzhou assessing economic growth in the manufacturing and service sectors and experiencing the significant ... More >>
The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, has released a report on improving the translation of publicly funded research for economic benefit. More >>
SLOW PROGRESS FOR WOMEN PROFESSORS The proportion of professors and associate professors who are women grew from 17 percent in 2003 to 21 percent in 2008 according to the Ministry of Education’s just released Profiles and Trends Report 2008. Overall ... More >>
Dr Merata Kawharu is now leading the James Henare Māori Research Centre at The University of Auckland. This follows the recent appointment of the centre’s executive director, Dr Te Tuhi Robust, to oversee Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi courses from NorthTec. More >>
Lincoln University’s long and strong connections with South Canterbury receive a new and formal educational stamp today (28 October) with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Aoraki Polytechnic. The MOU, signed by Professor Roger ... More >>
This year's entries in the Wanganui Business Awards are among the best judging convener Dr James Lockhart has seen. Dr Lockhart is one of three judges on the panel, all of them linked to Massey University, which is sponsor of the awards, to be announced ... More >>
New Zealand writers at home and abroad have until Friday, November 6 to apply for the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. The Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship is a national literary Fellowship offered by Buddle Findlay in partnership with The ... More >>
“The decision to go ahead with the school Kerikeri is not being driven by what is good for students, it is purely political,” says Mike Shaw chairman of the Kerikeri Christian Campus Board of Trustees. The Education Act requires the Minister of Education ... More >>
“The decision to go ahead with the school Kerikeri is not being driven by what is good for students, it is purely political,” says Mike Shaw chairman of the Kerikeri Christian Campus Board of Trustees. The Education Act requires the Minister of Education ... More >>
It’s well known that small and medium-sized enterprises struggle to grow, but maybe they’re content as they are. A new study out of the University of Waikato has found support for what’s known as the ‘contentment hypothesis’, and it’s won best ... More >>
The 2009 IRL prize for the best demonstration in robotics or automation has been awarded to final-year Auckland University Mechanical Engineering students Dzulfadli Ibrahim and Luqman Kamarudin for their project, "Propeller prototyping for an unmanned ... More >>
A new part-time summer course launched in Central Otago today (27 October) offers people of all ages and abilities the chance to get ahead in the hospitality industry. The Certificate in Café and Bar teaches the wide range of skills required by the ... More >>
Chinese officials will learn from New Zealand’s world-class food safety regime through a new scholarship arrangement, Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson announced today. More >>
The New Zealand School of Dance Graduation Season 09 promises to be a sleek, polished and exciting performance of classical ballet and contemporary dance. From heritage pieces to brand new choreography this season will have something for all dance lovers. More >>
This is indeed an appropriate setting to be launching the inaugural edition of the Journal of Best Practice in Applied and Maori indigenous vocational education. I think back to the vision of Tom Reweti, of Hiko Hohepa, and others who dreamed that ... More >>
Food regulator should seek more information before approving GM soybeans DP-305423-1 The Centre for Integrated Research in Biosafety (INBI) has made two submissions to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) on their draft recommendation to approve ... More >>
Oct 23 (BusinessWire) - Unremarked in New Zealand, but extraordinary for the outpourings of affection and gratitude according to a New Zealander present, was the departure of Dr John Hood as the first foreigner, let alone Kiwi, to be Vice-Chancellor at ... More >>
In its first 10 days the University of Canterbury’s philanthropic bond issue has attracted investments in excess of $15 million. The offer, which opened on 9 October and closes on 30 November, is for $50 million of fixed rate bonds with the ability ... More >>
A Massey biology researcher has used DNA analysis to prove quail on Tiritiri Matangi Island are Australian and not remnants of an extinct New Zealand species. PhD researcher Mark Seabrook-Davison from the Institute of Natural Sciences at Albany says the introduced ... More >>
A major international conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall is bringing high profile European politicians to New Zealand . The conference, which takes place 3-4 November in Wellington , is one of the premier ... More >>
by Pattrick Smellie Oct 23 (BusinessWire) - The Government's has unveiled an important chunk of its slowly emerging innovation agenda today with the publication of proposals to radically simplify funding for scientific research by the Minister of Research, ... More >>
A family relationship with the Taranaki Daily News spanning more than 100 years has resulted in the establishment of a scholarship for aspiring journalists. Funds for the James (Snr) and Mary Garcia Scholarship – which will also eventually encompass ... More >>
The Lincoln University School of Landscape Architecture has yet another cause for celebration – its new building has won a Public Architecture award in the Canterbury Architecture Awards. More >>
Prime Minister John Key has delivered on another promise to the science community by launching the inaugural Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science. Speaking at an event at Plant and Food Research in Auckland, Mr Key announced five categories of ... More >>
Research into the sustainable management of New Zealand estuaries and coastal waters has earned Malcolm Green of NIWA the Environmental Science Award at the 2009 Kudos Awards. More >>
VICE-CHANCELLORS TOLD TO PAY FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE An independent review of the New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit (AAU) recommends that the Unit have greater independence from the New Zealand Vice Chancellors’ Committee (NZVCC). More >>
Thank you for having shown us the truth,” wrote a Lincoln University student in the Visitors’ Book at the end of a busy day in Wellington. He was one of the fifteen told by Lincoln Vice Chancellor Roger Field to spend a day learning about the Holocaust ... More >>
An education model that makes learning central to everyday workplace practice is benefiting workplaces, trainees and service users. This finding was contained in independent research highlighting the wider benefits that come from investing in ... More >>
Half a dozen bright yellow boxes were delivered to the Parliament steps this afternoon, each containing parts of a petition opposing the proposed cuts to Adult Community Education (ACE), which threatens to discontinue adult education classes throughout ... More >>
More than twenty industry and sector stakeholders attended the Northern Regional e-Learning Symposium yesterday (subs 19 October) at NorthTec’s Interactive Learning Centre on the Raumanga campus in Whangarei. More >>
When Beverley Rogers graduates from the University of Waikato on Friday [23 October] with a Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences with first-class honours, it will be a very special occasion for her grandfather, who’ll be in the audience. More >>
Restructuring is contagious. Polytechnic councils have spent years presiding over the restructuring of their institutions, but now Government is doing it to them, in decisive style. The result will be governance by the few, so we should look hard ... More >>
A reflective suspense film about a paranoid school cleaner has taken out the ‘Best Film’ prize in annual Wintec New Zealand Secondary Schools Short Video Competition - Cut! More >>
Interior Design students Emily Pita and Charmaine Smit achieved a double award win for Wellington Institute of Technology at this year’s BEST Design Awards. More >>
Victoria University is the first university in New Zealand to offer a Master of Professional Accounting degree (MPA)—which is being officially launched this evening. More >>
A report by the University of Auckland, to be released tomorrow, says that in the past 12 months more than a third of same/both-sex attracted secondary school students had seriously thought about attempting suicide and around half had deliberately harmed ... More >>
NorthTec’s construction tutors are equipping prisoners at the Northern Region Corrections Facility at Ngawha near Kaikohe with real world skills to turn their lives around and to help those in need in the community as part of an agreement with the Corrections ... More >>
In tough economic times it’s often difficult for not-for-profit organisations to recruit and in retain members, and that in turn affects income and work capacity. More >>
The University of Canterbury is to become one of just 70 universities worldwide accredited to accept specially selected postgraduate students from China’s top universities. More >>
Whanganui UCOL art, design and fashion students get to strut their stuff in no fewer than twelve exhibitions during UCOL’s annual celebration of creativity, Artrageous. More >>
Two Whanganui UCOL School of Design students scored Bronze medals in the annual BeST Design Awards announced in Auckland at the weekend. More >>
Fifteen current and former students from Massey, and two staff members, are celebrating after wins at this year's BeST Design Awards. More >>
Comprehensive recommendations to improve food security and increase physical activity have been made by a University of Auckland-led research consortium. They include introducing a Smart Card to subsidise healthy food, helping people to access their ... More >>
A new strategy aimed at converting more brilliant research ideas into commercial ventures was launched yesterday at the Albany campus. More >>
Business NZ welcomes the Government’s announcement of five new trade academies across the country. More >>
New Zealand’s up-and-coming sports stars were honoured in a formal ceremony on Friday 16 October for striking the balance between sport and study. The Blue Awards ceremony hosted by Unitec and its student association the USU, awarded thirteen students ... More >>
The Industry Training Federation says the Government’s announcement of five new trade academies is a positive step towards recognising the importance of industry links to training and qualifications. “We are pleased that there appears to ... More >>
Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec) has been confirmed as the base for the newly established Wellington Regional Trades Academy. 113 expressions of interest were received for the much anticipated programme according to the Ministry of Education. ... More >>
Victoria University students will take to the streets this Friday to highlight the dangers of climate change and urge the government to take appropriate action. Student leaders say that there is strong support amongst students for urgent government action ... More >>
ACT on Campus yesterday ambushed a meeting of the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) Student Representative Council (SRC) meeting, to further their ideological push against Students’ Associations. Act on Campus then ... More >>
The Arthritis New Zealand Research Fund has approved a three year grant for a PhD scholarship amounting to $132,500 to the Malaghan Institute to undertake research on Gout. More >>
ACT on Campus today congratulated the Victoria University of Wellington Student Association (VUWSA) on supporting Roger Douglas' Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill at the final Student Representative Council (SRC) of 2009. More >>
The organisation representing schools that hold night classes, the Community Learning Association through Schools will present a petition to Parliament on Tuesday 20th October on the Parliament steps. More >>
MINISTER SAYS BE SELECTIVE ABOUT STUDENTS TVNZ has drawn attention to significant underfunding in the tertiary education sector, questioning whether it can continue to perform as funding cuts start to take effect. Chief Executive of WITT (Western ... More >>
Education Minister, Anne Tolley, has announced the five successful applicants selected to open trades academies in 2011. “Every student should have an education system which works for them and which meets their needs, and trades academies will help ... More >>
Toddlers who increase their red meat intake or drink iron-fortified milk can successfully avoid the falling iron levels commonly affecting this age group, according to latest findings from New Zealand’s University of Otago. Study co-principal investigator ... More >>
NorthTec Chief Executive Terry Barnett presented NorthTec’s award for technology and innovation to Magnetism Solutions Ltd in front of an audience of key Northland business leaders at the 2009 Westpac Northland Business Excellence Awards last Friday ... More >>
Victoria University of Wellington and the Wellington Council of Christians and Jews Present a Public Seminar More >>
Young Nats welcome today’s move by VUWSA to support the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill, which is currently heading to select committee. More >>
Acting Prime Minister, Hon Bill English, will present prizes to the top scholars of Victoria University's School of Government programmes at the School’s seventh anniversary celebrations on 14 October More >>
ACT New Zealand MP Sir Roger Douglas today welcomed the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association's support for his Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill. More >>
The Government has accepted a bid from a group of 18 Waikato education providers and industry organisations to open the region’s first trades academy. More >>
The Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA)’s Christmas party this Friday sees the continuation of what has become a bizarre OUSA tradition : the passing of the Presidential Knob. OUSA Life Member, Kyle Matthews, tells the story: The knob ... More >>
The Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) launches its Fairtrade My University campaign at this Thursday’s OUSA Market Day. “We are putting our stick into the ground” says organiser, OUSA Executive member John Philipson, “and saying that ... More >>
In tertiary education, the Government means business, and not much else. The draft Tertiary Education Strategy starts by firmly bolting education to work and the economy, and never wavers in its focus. It does have some passing references to profile items ... More >>
The release of the draft Tertiary Education Strategy (TES) for the period 2010-2015 for consultation reveals limited alignment with the nine-point plan contained in the university briefing document to the current Government. The key difference between ... More >>
John Leslie was there the day the Berlin Wall came down, and 20 years later will relive that experience as a major conference dissects one of history’s defining moments. More >>
Tertiary institutes are lagging in popularity with 14 and 15 year old secondary school students when compared to other available career opportunities. This alarming trend is the unexpected result of a partner report generated by Inzone’s new interactive ... More >>
AUT student, 23 year-old Srikanth Rayadurgam did not attend his AUT classes the day he was last seen by his family, October 1, 2009. More >>
The skill of The University of Auckland’s School of Music staff and students will be showcased in a forthcoming evening of inspirational music for voice and orchestra. The “Waipoua” concert features Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s magical “…which ... More >>
ACE Aotearoa welcomes the opportunity to help build the capability of the schools selected to provide adult education within the government’s new priorities says Co Chair of ACE Aotearoa, Analiese Robertson. The Tertiary Education Commission has ... More >>
The people have spoken… Jesus I Was Evil by Darcy Clay is the # 1 song for 95bFMs 95 greatest songs of all time! The audience voted, we counted…and the Top 95 Songs of 95bFM’s Time were revealed on October 10th, 2009, 40 years after Radio Bosom ... More >>
The Active Manuka Honey Association (AMHA) has slammed the release by Waikato University of a new standard for measuring non peroxide activity levels in Manuka honey as misleading. It also undermines an industry review that is currently underway. John Rawcliffe, ... More >>
Vic Uni student Emma Whiteside has just hit the big-time in design, winning the prestigious Shell Sustainability Award at the Montana World of WearableArt™ Awards Show. More >>
The government has released its 2010–2015 tertiary education strategy that includes possible changes to the way fees and student allowances are managed. More >>
Typeface designer. Magazine publisher. Branding consultant. Wellington Mayoral candidate. More >>
As ‘green’ marketing becomes more popular, the path to a clear conscience is becoming a bit of a jungle. More >>
“The fears of communities around New Zealand are confirmed. Less than a quarter of schools currently offering night classes, will do so in 2010. It doesn’t matter how much political spin you put on these stats – National has killed a 100 year ... More >>
Victoria University of Wellington will confer honorary degrees on Richard Carey, an international civil servant, and Anthony Reid, a prominent historian on Southeast Asia. Richard Carey has worked for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and ... More >>
Recently-appointed Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi academic and former Director of Auckland University’s Sir James Henare Research Centre Dr Te Tuhi Robust has been appointed to oversee the delivery of several postgraduate and undergraduate ... More >>
The Young Nationals today tried to close an Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) meeting which was discussing Sir Roger Douglas’ Education Amendment Bill, which aims to impose VSM (Voluntary Student Membership) upon students’associations. ... More >>
Auckland, New Zealand – 8 October 2009 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the first Asia Pacific Professional Open Source Software Experience (POSSE), a boot camp for open source ... More >>
The University of Auckland continues to be among the top 100 universities in the world, according to the latest world university rankings published this week by the Times Higher Education. In 2009, the University’s position has increased to 61st ... More >>
University of Otago researchers have gained more than $18m in the latest annual Marsden Fund round for 25 world-class research projects that push the frontiers of knowledge. The Otago projects will be led by researchers from across the University’s ... More >>
This Sounds Familiar Though... promises to take audiences at Studio 77 on a journey as familiar as it is unfamiliar. The final season of a series of short plays that showcase the talents of upandcoming directors from Victoria University’s Theatre ... More >>
A University of Waikato computer science student has been awarded a government-funded Top Achiever’s Doctoral Scholarship, worth $92,000 over three years, to fund his PhD studies into better ways to design complex systems. More >>
Three in every four schools providing adult and community education night classes will lose their funding next year following the Government’s savage Budget cuts, says Labour’s Tertiary Education spokesperson Maryan Street. “The true carnage ... More >>
The well-known Chinese blogger and social entrepreneur Isaac Mao is visiting Auckland for 24 hours on Sunday 18th and Monday 19th October. More >>
Two senior staff of Lincoln University, New Zealand’s specialist land-based university, have won prestigious awards for an area of study the university is not well known for. More >>
NorthTec will host the Northern Regional e-Learning Symposium on 19 October at its Interactive Learning Centre on the Raumanga campus in Whangarei. More >>
Finalists announced for 2009 National Cut! Film Competition Finalists have been announced for the annual national secondary schools Cut! Film awards run by Wintec’s School of Media Arts. The ten finalist’s films will screen on Sunday October 18th ... More >>
The Government must take concrete steps to save the Centre for New Zealand Studies at the University of London Birkbeck, Labour’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Chris Carter says. More >>
Failure to prioritise active rehabilitation for people with long-term and complex disability in an effort to rationalise spending could be costing New Zealand hundreds of millions of dollars. More >>
New Zealand’s law schools need to do more to ease the transition from being a student to being a practitioner, according to Sir Geoffrey Palmer. The Head of the Law Commission and former Prime Minister made the comments during an address to Victoria’s Law ... More >>
Former VUWSA Vice-President (Administration) Max Hardy has comfortably won election to the office of VUWSA President for 2010. Hardy beat opponent Alan Young by 807 votes to 205. Guy Williams, who was unable to remove his name from the ballot after ... More >>
Scratch that $11.2 million underground animal research facility the University of Iowa's interim vice president for research, Jordan Cohen is probably saying to his Board of Regents right about now. A 35,000-square-foot underground vivarium where ... More >>
Central Auckland will come alive with the colour and celebration of The University of Auckland’s Spring Graduation tomorrow (6 October). Some 2515 students will receive a total of 2750 qualifications at four ceremonies in the Aotea Centre. There will ... More >>
Student leaders are gravely concerned today at information released to NZUSA under the Official Information Act that forecasts total student debt reaching $15 Billion dollars by 2015 and a staggering $20 billion dollars by 2022. More >>
On Saturday 10th October at the Hamilton Gardens Victorian Glass House, a unique documentary film will be made by a Wintec post -graduate film student. Sri Lankan Honours student Chinthaka Senadeera. Graduated from the Loyola College, Hyderabad, ... More >>
Professional capability in dealing with disasters and managing psychological impacts of the tsunami in the Pacific has been offered by Massey University. Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Mäori and Pasifika) Professor Mason Durie says Massey staff from the Joint Centre ... More >>
Student leaders today are pleased with several parts of the draft Tertiary Education Strategy which outline the need for students to have a holistic and well rounded experience in tertiary education and that it acknowledges the importance of this ... More >>
Former All Black captain and leading businessman Sir Wilson Whineray will receive an Honorary Doctorate from Waikato University in October. More >>
A University of Waikato Continuing Education course that encourages people to consider issues that affect the community, the nation and the world takes place from October 6. More >>
Victoria University Young Nats congratulate Max Hardy, recently elected VUWSA president for 2010. "We congratulate Max for his top effort in securing a majority for the win," says Christian Lambert, Vic Uni Young Nats President. "It's interesting though ... More >>
OUR BEST WISHES TO SAMOA, INDONESIA AND OUR OTHER PACIFIC NEIGHBOURS Our thoughts at the TEU today are with the people of Samoa, Indonesia and other nearby Pacific islands as they face the aftermath of their respective tragedies. If you want to ... More >>
Queenstown Resort College (QRC) is investing in the future of tertiary education in the Southern Lakes region by creating a centralised accommodation base for its students. QRC has purchased Queenstown Lodge, a former hotel in the suburb of Fernhill, ... More >>
Tertiary students from around the country will have the opportunity to experience some of the greatest sports facilities New Zealand has to offer when they travel to Southland for the 2010 University Games in April. More >>
Student leaders today are concerned at further fee rises that have been signalled in the release of the Government’s Draft Tertiary Education Strategy. More >>
Results from the Employment Outcomes of Tertiary Education (EOTE) feasibility study on the post-study earnings of those who recently participated in tertiary education and training were released today by Statistics New Zealand. More >>
A series of panel discussions on the future of the New Zealand economy will be hosted at Unitec during October. Rod Oram, award winning business journalist and adjunct Professor at Unitec’s Department of Management and Marketing, will faciliate the ... More >>
The Government appears set to allow tertiary institutions more flexibility to raise student fees and is signalling less financial support for older students returning to study, says Labour Tertiary Education spokesperson Maryan Street. More >>
Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley has today released the Government’s draft Tertiary Education Strategy 2010-2015 for consultation. “We need the tertiary system to deliver for our young people, to improve education outcomes and achievement and ... More >>
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