Myers Scholarship recipient looks forward to giving New Zealand a voice in Cambridge
09 February 2023 | news
Rangimarie Puttick, recipient of this year’s Sir Douglas Myers Scholarship to attend Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, will go to Cambridge “not only...
DOC-funded scholarships support critical research
07 February 2023 | news
Research to help address the impact of the climate crisis on biodiversity is a notable feature among topics that have received Department of Conservation postgraduate scholarship support this year....
Emeritus Professor Stuart McCutcheon (1955–2023)
13 January 2023 | news
Emeritus Professor Stuart McCutcheon, who died on 6 January aged 68, was a highly valued and hugely respected member of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee for nearly 20 years, four of the...
Wānanga an important milestone for Māori academic career development programme
15 December 2022 | news
“Te Kei makes us look out from our silos and see the rest of the uni world and what that offers us and where we sit within it. This then reminds us who we are, what we have achieved, what we can a...
Between a rock and a hard place
15 December 2022 | news
By Chris WhelanChief ExecutiveUniversities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara The annual reports of all universities showed a surplus last year. Yet all are also saying they can’t lift salaries for their...
From the Chair: The need for universities only grows, but not funding
15 December 2022 | news
By Professor Jan Thomas Vice-Chancellor, Massey University Chair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee When I began my two-year term as Chair of Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara i...
Universities look forward to contributing to research sector White Paper reforms
07 December 2022 | news
As trainers of most of the country’s researchers and home to nearly 60% of them, New Zealand’s eight universities expect to be key contributors to the major overhaul of the research, science and i...
Bilateral forum reaffirms universities’ close ties with Viet Nam
05 December 2022 | news
New Zealand’s eight universities have welcomed today’s Viet Nam – New Zealand Education Forum hosted at The University of Waikato as an opportunity to reaffirm and strengthen the sector’s longstan...
$50,000 Critic and Conscience of Society Award 2023 opens for applications
14 November 2022 | news
New Zealand university academics who excel at keeping the public informed with their expert commentary could receive a $50,000 grant as the 2023 Critic and Conscience of Society Award opens for ap...
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