AQA Board seeks new lay members

06 August 2018 | news

The Board of the Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand Universities (AQA) is seeking two lay members of the Board with expertise in quality assurance for a three-year term beginning 1 January...

Universities acknowledge funding increase, look for further investment

27 June 2018 | media

University Vice-Chancellors acknowledge the 1.6% increase in tuition subsidies announced today and hope this Government will invest further in the university sector in coming years to ensure it can...

Submission into the Government Inquiry into Mental health and Addiction

08 June 2018 | submissions

Universities New Zealand has made a submission to the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction. The submission outlines a number of key points, which are both issues and opportunities...

Universities welcome post-study work rights proposals

02 June 2018 | media

New Zealand’s universities welcome today’s announcement by Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway of proposed changes to post-study work visas for international students.“The previous system...

Ethel Benjamin scholarships for outstanding women lawyers announced

23 May 2018 | media

Three remarkable women have this year received New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin scholarships for outstanding women lawyers.The awards honour Ethel Benjamin, New Zealand’s first woman...

Engineering students awarded RMTU scholarships

18 May 2018 | media

Two young students with a passion for engineering have been awarded Ernest William File scholarships for 2018.Eighteen-year-old Hannah Hudson (Christchurch) and Anton Rufer (Tirau) have been...

Budget a missed opportunity, say universities

17 May 2018 | media

The Government has utterly failed to back up its rhetoric about the future of work and the importance of preparing for the challenges of technological change, according to the Vice-Chancellors of...

Canterbury academic receives Critic and Conscience of Society Award

15 May 2018 | media

On 22 February 2011, Dr Ann Brower’s life was changed by the Canterbury earthquake.The only survivor of 13 people in a bus crushed by falling masonry from the unreinforced parapet and facade of a...

Outstanding young musicians awarded Patricia Pratt Scholarships

09 May 2018 | media

Three outstanding young musicians—cellist Matthias Balzat, tenor Filipe Manu and soprano Katherine McIndoe—have been awarded 2018 Patricia Pratt Scholarships in Musical Performance, enabling them...

BayTrust scholarship awarded to kaimoana researcher

08 May 2018 | media

Waikato University PhD student Vanessa Taikato has been awarded the 2018 Bruce Cronin BayTrust Scholarship to study ways in which Māori moved marine shellfish from location to location.Worth $5000,...