Otago academic receives Critic and Conscience Award

03 May 2019 | media

Speaking truth to power is an academic responsibility Otago University Law Professor Andrew Geddis takes seriously....

Funding increase much-needed boost for universities

30 May 2019 | media

New Zealand’s Vice-Chancellors acknowledge the 1.8% increase in the Student Achievement Component of university funding....

Universities welcome increased teacher training funding

02 May 2019 | media

Universities New Zealand welcomes today’s announcement of increased funding for teacher training over the next four years....

Universities powerhouse of NZ research

30 April 2019 | media

The eight universities are confirmed as the powerhouse of research in New Zealand, based on today’s release of results from the 2018 Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) quality evaluation, says...

Submission on review of the Copyright Act 1994

08 April 2019 | submissions

Universities New Zealand has submitted an Issues Paper to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment on the review of the Copyright Act 1994.

UNZ submission on Sustainable Development Goals

25 March 2019 | submissions

New Zealand's universities have made a joint submission to the first voluntary review of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

UNZ submission to RoVE

03 April 2019 | news

Universities New Zealand has made a submission to the Reform of Vocational Education.

Read the latest from Universities New Zealand

29 March 2019 | news

Read the latest newsletter from Universities New Zealand.

Universities call for more effective regulation of social media platforms

29 March 2019 | media

New Zealand’s universities are joining the Privacy Commissioner and major corporate advertisers in calling for more effective regulation of and responsiveness from social media platforms....

'People like us don't go to university'

29 March 2019 | news

That comment from a woman in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, a low socio-economic area, brought home to James McWha the importance of raising the aspirations of both children and their communities...