Robertson Scholars off to Duke University

27 March 2012 | media

Three exceptional students with a strong desire to create a better world have won valuable scholarships to prestigious Duke University in the United States.Their scholarships, each worth $100,000 a...

Myers Scholarship taking Cantabrian to Cambridge

02 April 2012 | media

Zoë Higgins, a student from Banks Peninsula with a passion for improving the quality and sustainability of human life, has been awarded the prestigious Sir Douglas Myers Scholarship for 2012 to...

Initial results of world-first graduate survey released

04 April 2012 | media

The baseline report of the Graduate Longitudinal Study New Zealand (GLSNZ) has been released this week.  The GLSNZ, a large-scale survey of New Zealand university graduates aiming to determine the...

Student Finance in the University Sector: Never Mind the Quality – Feel the Price

17 April 2012 | publications

Speech to the Conference on the Funding of Student Finance, IPS, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, 18 April 2012Stuart McCutcheon, Vice-Chancellor of The University of...

Universities to share national journals storage

24 April 2012 | media

A collaborative initiative by New Zealand’s eight university libraries is set to free up space and save money by jointly storing a single copy of low-use print journals, while ensuring the...

Report finds New Zealand academic salaries still lagging

02 May 2012 | media

A report by Deloitte shows that New Zealand academic salaries are up to twenty percent lower than Australian academic salaries and lower than academic salaries in Canada and the United States. The...

University Staff Academic Salaries and Remuneration 2012

03 May 2012 | publications

Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara commissioned Deloitte to undertake a comparison of New Zealand and select international (Australia, Canada, UK and USA) data on university staff academic...

Performance-Based Research Fund Effective

07 May 2012 | media

Universities NZ welcomes the Minister of Tertiary Education, Skills & Employment's indication over the weekend that there will be a modest increase to the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF)...

Budget confirms central role of universities for growth

24 May 2012 | media

Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara acknowledges that, despite the difficult economic situation faced by the country, the government has recognised the important contribution that universities...

Universities sign Academic Cooperation Arrangement with Taiwan

25 May 2012 | media

Universities New Zealand-Te Pōkai Tara and the Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan (FICHET) have signed an Arrangement of Academic Cooperation today.The...