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Lecturers threaten to withhold students’ marks

20 November 2009 4:15pm | USU. Student Association at Unitec

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 >>

Students not gagging for it

20 November 2009 4:09pm | Otago Polytechnic Student's Association

In a surprise move student representation has been recommended to be removed from the governance councils of polytechnics. More >>

Don’t Shortchange the Children

20 November 2009 4:08pm | NZEI

Early childhood teachers are bombarding the Education Minister with a strong message not to shortchange our youngest children. It follows the government’s policy U-turn on moving towards a fully qualified early childhood teaching workforce. More >>

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Students outraged at Polytechnic governance change

20 November 2009 2:51pm | NZ Union of Students' Associations

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 >>

No Confidence in National Standards

19 November 2009 5:12pm | New Zealand Educational Institute

Education sector representatives and leaders will be taking a list of concerns to the government over the implementation of its National Standards policy, and have suggested the Standards be trialled before being fully adopted. The policy was the ... More >>

Pay, Employment Equality Review for Massey

19 November 2009 4:56pm | Massey University

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 >>

Rhodes Scholars Elect for 2010

19 November 2009 4:34pm | Vice Chancellors' Committee

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 >>

TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 40

19 November 2009 3:59pm | Association of University Staff

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 >>

Rhodes Scholarship to engineering student

19 November 2009 1:46pm | University of Auckland

Richard Stebbing, a University of Auckland engineering student with a passion for medical imaging, has been awarded an esteemed Rhodes Scholarship. More >>

Professor Peter Hunter wins the Rutherford Medal

19 November 2009 12:49pm | University of Auckland

Auckland Bioengineering Institute Director Professor Peter Hunter has won the prestigious Rutherford Medal, New Zealand’s top science honour. The Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Hon Dr Wayne Mapp, presented the medal to Professor Hunter last night ... More >>

Top honours for Malaghan Institute chairman

19 November 2009 12:17pm | Victoria University of Wellington

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 >>

Commissioner Returning to Auckland Law as Prof

18 November 2009 5:29pm | University of Auckland

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 >>

Women’s six week freebie accepted by employers

18 November 2009 3:45pm | Tertiary Education Union

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 >>

Manukau Students Show Business Skills

18 November 2009 2:29pm | City of Manukau Education Trust

Students from Alfriston College talked about their involvement in the development of Randwick Park to over 50 business leaders and school representatives at an Education-Business forum facilitated by COMET today. The students have entered into a partnership with ... More >>

National Standards Up For Discussion

18 November 2009 1:27pm | NZEI

The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is hosting a forum today (Nov 19) to discuss the government’s controversial National Standards. More >>

Life cycle management director appointed

18 November 2009 11:25am | Massey University

Dr Sarah McLaren has been appointed Associate Professor in Life Cycle Management and inaugural director of the New Zealand Centre for Life Cycle Management based at the Manawatu campus. More >>

'Work for Free Day' Resonates w Education workers

18 November 2009 11:18am | New Zealand Educational Institute

Work for Free Day is being marked today and the education sector union NZEI says it should serve to highlight the government’s continued efforts to undermine the value of women’s work. The Pay Equity Challenge Coalition says the 18th November ... More >>

UCOL Students Raise Funds for Samoa

18 November 2009 11:07am | UCOL

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 >>

Nelson School of Music Given New Piano

18 November 2009 9:53am | Nelson Media Agency

The Nelson School of Music is being gifted a new Steinway grand piano by local businessman Murray Sturgeon and his wife Jocelyn. Announcing the gift today, the Chairman of the Nelson School of Music Trust Board, Peter Robins said the Steinway Concert D ... More >>

Healthy Eating Wins Prize for Brighton School

17 November 2009 5:29pm | KidsFirst

Children from Kidsfirst South Brighton are on the right track for a lifetime of healthy eating – scooping a top South Island prize in the process. As part of November’s Fruit and Vegetable month, the kindergarten created an art montage of a healthy body ... More >>

North Tec Student in 2010 Int'l Flower Show

17 November 2009 5:01pm | North Tec

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 >>

Hardwork put to the test in nursing finals

17 November 2009 4:17pm | Whitireia Polytech

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 >>

WelTec Cooks Up Exchange to Bali

17 November 2009 4:16pm | Wellington institute of Technology

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 >>

MP Heatley impressed by NorthTec’s facility

17 November 2009 3:52pm | NorthTec

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 >>

Australian student President visits New Zealand

16 November 2009 3:18pm | New Zealand Union of Students Associations

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 >>

NZEI National Standards Forum

16 November 2009 12:09pm | NZEI

The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is hosting a forum to discuss the government’s controversial National Standards and what they will mean for children’s learning. More >>

Students Go On Field Trip to See Blue Ducks

16 November 2009 11:47am | LEARNZ

More than 2000 primary school children will this week take part in a northern Buller field trip to learn more about efforts to save New Zealand’s threatened blue duck (whio). The Department of Conservation (DoC), which operates eight national security ... More >>

Foundation Continues Pivotal Medical Research

13 November 2009 5:23pm | Auckland Medical Research Foundation

The Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) has donated $400,000 toward the redevelopment of The University of Auckland's Grafton Campus, as a further expression of its support for medical and health research at the University. The AMRF has provided more than ... More >>

University Appoints New Pro-Vice-Chancellor

13 November 2009 10:42am | University of Otago

A leading marine and freshwater chemist, Professor Hunter will succeed Professor Vernon Squire, who takes up his new role as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & International) from 1 February 2010. More >>

Unitec Students Fear Failure Due to Strikes

13 November 2009 10:02am | UNITEC Student Union

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 >>

New Engineering Degree now deliverable across NZ

13 November 2009 9:41am | Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics NZ

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 >>

Intl Recognition for Environmental Law School

12 November 2009 5:10pm | University of Auckland

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 >>

Conference supports striking polytech workers

12 November 2009 4:28pm | Tertiary Education Union

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 >>

TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 39

12 November 2009 3:46pm | Association of University Staff

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 >>

OUSA seeks alternatives to Toga Parade

12 November 2009 3:39pm | Otago University Students Association

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 >>

Partnership With Early Childhood Council

12 November 2009 1:38pm | ECE Astute

The Early Childhood Council is the largest representative body of licensed early child care, daycare and education centres in New Zealand. It is a not-for-profit organisation with more than 1,000 plus member centres employing more than 7,000 staff ... More >>

UCOL Utilizes Pavement for Poetry

12 November 2009 1:19pm | UCOL

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 >>

University Celebrates New Fellows of Royal Society

12 November 2009 1:12pm | University of Auckland

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 >>

Mike Pero Mortgages Announce Scholarship Winners

12 November 2009 10:14am | Mike Pero Mortgages

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 >>

New Zealand Ranks High in International Education

12 November 2009 9:55am | Education New Zealand

In the global battle to attract international students, academic rankings have become an important tool and one of the main factors used to help students decide where they want to study. New Zealand’s consistently high quality of education has given ... More >>

Chemical Engineer Joins Biochar Centre

12 November 2009 9:47am | Massey University Staff

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 >>

Government axes Manukau literacy programme

11 November 2009 4:51pm | City of Manukau Education Trust

The government has chosen not to invest in a new adult literacy and education programme developed by COMET and the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT). The new programme is based on the highly regarded Manukau Family Literacy Programme (MFLP), which COMET, ... More >>

Pacific people encouraged on to school boards

11 November 2009 4:48pm | Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs

Pasifika parents are being encouraged to stand for school boards of trustees through two community fonos being held in Auckland this month. The fono are part of a joint initiative by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs called ... More >>

'Pain thermometers' urged to combat injustices

11 November 2009 4:44pm | Massey University

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 >>

RBNZ looks to new economic stabilisers to help OCR

11 November 2009 2:53pm | Businesswire

by Pattrick Smellie Nov 11 (BusinessWire) - New Reserve Bank of New Zealand rules will force more prudent lending practice from trading banks over the course of economic cycles and take some of the weight off the Official Cash Rate as the sole tool for ... More >>

Honouring New Zealand’s only Gallipoli VC

11 November 2009 1:47pm | Returned Services Association

New Zealand’s only Gallipoli Victoria Cross recipient, Cyril Bassett VC, was honoured on Armistice Day today with the launch of a new secondary schools speech competition: The National Bank RSA Cyril Bassett VC Speech Competition. More >>

UCOL recognises the high achievers

11 November 2009 1:14pm | UCOL

Ten high achieving UCOL students will get tangible support for further study with the awarding of annual scholarships this week. More >>

Creativity in the classroom

11 November 2009 12:47pm | University of Waikato

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 >>

Orangutans, Wood Pigeons and Dark Spirits

11 November 2009 11:54am | Whitireia Polytech

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 >>

Engineering students mix creativity and complexity

10 November 2009 4:47pm | Massey University

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 >>

Internet Law Seminar to Examine Contempt Issues

10 November 2009 4:41pm | Internet NZ

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 >>

New Zealand scientist to research nuclear energy

10 November 2009 4:31pm | Fulbright NZ

A Dunedin student with a view of a clean and safe nuclear-powered future has been recognised as one of the world’s top young scientists, and will complete a PhD at a leading American university thanks to his selection for a prestigious International ... More >>

Strategy submission emphasises secondary-tertiary

10 November 2009 4:23pm | NZ Vice-Chancellors Committee

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 >>

Great Ideas During Global Entrepreneurship Week

10 November 2009 3:55pm | Massey University

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 >>

Waikato Student Wins Internship

10 November 2009 1:54pm | University of Waikato

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 >>

Education on P Dangers Should Start Early

09 November 2009 5:07pm | Stellar Trust

Almost 60 percent of New Zealanders believe education about the dangers posed by pure methamphetamine (P) use and addiction should start as early as primary and intermediate school level. The scale of the P problem in New Zealand and New Zealanders’ desire ... More >>

Fronde and WelTec partner to develop IT talent

09 November 2009 3:00pm | Wellington institute of Technology

The outlook is bright for seven Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec) students that have kick-started their careers with a Technology Cadetship. As part of the cadetship programme, the students will receive a fee scholarship, paid employment ... More >>

Best and first for new UCOL web site

09 November 2009 10:45am | UCOL

UCOL wanted only the best for its new web site – including the best young designer. More >>

Polytechnic strikes set to continue as exams loom

06 November 2009 4:03pm | Tertiary Education Union

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 >>