More pressure for universities in Budget 2023

18 May 2023 | media

Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara appreciates the 5% increase in funding for teaching (Delivery and Quality - DQ funding) as outlined in today’s Budget....

Critic and Conscience of Society Award winner holds those in power to account

12 May 2023 | news

For the vital role he has played in contributing analysis and academic expertise to areas of public interest, the winner of the 2023 Critic and Conscience of Society Award is Dr Dean Knight,...

Postgraduate scholarship and stipend support in the university sector

19 April 2023 | submissions

This submission to Parliament's Education and Workforce Select Committee discusses the scholarship and stipend support available to postgraduate students at each of New Zealand’s eight universities...

Universities launch ‘Piki Ake’

30 March 2023 | news

A transition programme designed to change the trajectory for upcoming Māori researchers...

Robertson Scholar an extraordinary all-rounder

21 March 2023 | media

‘An extraordinary all-rounder who goes above and beyond what is usually expected of a high school student’. That is how one of his teachers describes Hunter Haynes, 18, winner of this year’s...

Combine travel and study with the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters

14 February 2023 | news

Sarah Miller graduated with a master’s degree in November 2022 from the University of Glasgow, however Dublin City University and Charles University in Prague were also degree-awarding bodies on...

Briefing to the incoming Minister of Education January 2023

10 February 2023 | submissions

Read Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara's January 2023 Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Education, the Hon Jan Tinetti....

Myers Scholarship recipient looks forward to giving New Zealand a voice in Cambridge

09 February 2023 | news

Rangimarie Puttick, recipient of this year’s Sir Douglas Myers Scholarship to attend Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, will go to Cambridge “not only...

DOC-funded scholarships support critical research

07 February 2023 | news

Research to help address the impact of the climate crisis on biodiversity is a notable feature among topics that have received Department of Conservation postgraduate scholarship support this year....

Emeritus Professor Stuart McCutcheon (1955–2023)

13 January 2023 | news

Emeritus Professor Stuart McCutcheon, who died on 6 January aged 68, was a highly valued and hugely respected member of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee for nearly 20 years, four of the...