Congratulations to 2014 Woolf Fisher Scholars

18 September 2014 | news

Universities New Zealand warmly congratulates Nelson Lam, Athene Laws and Rory Little who been have awarded prestigious Woolf Fisher Trust Scholarships to study for their doctorate at the...

New Zealand universities still in top 3% globally

02 October 2014 | media

New Zealand universities still rank in the top 3% world-wide despite slippage in the latest tables says the Acting Chair of Universities New Zealand Professor Harlene Hayne.Under the Times Higher...

Rhodes Scholarships awarded to three exceptional young New Zealanders

06 November 2014 | media

Three outstanding young New Zealanders have been awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to undertake postgraduate study at the University of Oxford. The announcement was made by the Governor...

Universities New Zealand – Briefing to the Incoming Minister October 2014

17 November 2014 | publications

Universities New Zealand – Briefing to the Incoming Minister October 2014

New opportunities with Chinese universities

20 November 2014 | media

An agreement renewed today between New Zealand and Chinese universities will help pave the way for new collaboration opportunities between faculty and students in New Zealand and China including...

New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee Financial Statements 2014

03 December 2014 | media

Click here for the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2014.

New scholarship honours Kiwi farming leader

10 December 2014 | news

The memory of one of New Zealand’s farming leaders is being honoured with the establishment of the John H Aspinall Scholarship to support study into public access to the outdoors and New Zealand’s...

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...