How do we develop tomorrow’s leaders and thinkers today?

15 December 2014 | news

by Professor Harlene Hayne - Chair of Universities New Zealand, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago.The greatest challenge facing New Zealand’s universities is to act as incubators,...

Who is fuel poor and why?

18 December 2014 | media

 A scholarship to study fuel poverty in New Zealand has been awarded to an Otago University student.Fatima McKague has been awarded the Todd Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship in Energy Research,...

Universities 101 - what it's like to study at uni today

23 February 2015 | news

By Chris Whelan, Executive Director, Universities New ZealandThis month sees over 20,000 young people starting university for the first time.  All of them will be approaching it with a mix of...

Conference: Business Improvement in Universities - Maximising efficiency by applying business processes to academic institutions

13 March 2015 | news

Conference dates: 17 - 18 June 2015, CQ Functions, Melbourne, AustraliaNote Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara members get an exclusive discount on this conference. Quote the code CC*UNZ and...

Letter to Ministers about the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on NZ copyright

17 March 2015 | news

Copy of Letter to Ministers

Kiwi philanthropist awards full scholarship to 18 year-old to Cambridge

24 March 2015 | media

A scholarship funded by businessman Sir Douglas Myers for a future New Zealand leader to study at Cambridge University has been awarded to exceptional 18 year-old Ethan Sorrell from Waterview,...

Robertson scholarships awarded to outstanding future leaders

25 March 2015 | media

Two young New Zealanders have been awarded prestigious Robertson scholarships to study at a top-ranked American university in recognition of their outstanding leadership potential.The scholarship...

Prestigious Girdlers’ Scholarship awarded to multi-talented law student

31 March 2015 | media

Eighteen year-old Harrison Fookes from Glendowie has been has been awarded a life changing Girdlers’ scholarship to Cambridge University.The former Auckland Sacred Heart student is described as an...

UNZ part of Ministerial delegation to Latin American

21 April 2015 | news

UNZ Executive Director Chris Whelan is part of a Ministerial delegation of university representatives led by Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce to strengthen education links with Latin...

Almost a generation of the best wiped out in WWI

24 April 2015 | news

The First World War touched nearly every New Zealand family, community and workplace as well as our universities.From a population of just over 1 million, 100,000 young men served overseas, 18,000...