Press Release – Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
New Zealand universities will be the first to benefit from a memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and global space and data analytics company Maxar Technologies.
Maxar and MBIE have agreed on potential areas of collaboration, including use of advanced Earth observation satellites and data analytics, space technologies and science-technology-engineering and mathematics (STEM) education programmes.
The MOU was signed virtually today from MBIE in Wellington and Maxar Technologies at their headquarters in Westminster, Colorado, USA.
MBIE General Manager of Science, Innovation and International, and Head of the New Zealand Space Agency, Dr Peter Crabtree, says the MOU with Maxar is an excellent example of the work of MBIE’s Innovative Partnerships Programme and New Zealand Space Agency in forging partnerships with world-leading firms that can help drive innovati
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Judith Collins and Jacinda Ardern talk about the new tenancy laws expected to pass this week. (Video first published August 4, 2020)
A group of Wellington students signed a $1040 per week lease for a four-bedroom flat, only to find one of the bedrooms was also the lounge. Third-year law and psychology student Emily Cooper, 20, and her three flatmates signed the lease and handed over a $4160 bond sight-unseen because they were working full time in Auckland over the summer. They feared they would miss out if they waited. “We were getting very desperate because the term was about to start, and we still didn t have a place,” Cooper said.
Press Release – Ministry of Social Development Knowing what support and advice is available for business continuity and staff retention will be critical for Northland businesses should there be a resurgence of COVID-19. Ministry of Social Development (MSD), Economic Development Manager, Darrell Lambert …
Knowing what support and advice is available for business continuity and staff retention will be critical for Northland businesses should there be a resurgence of COVID-19.
Ministry of Social Development (MSD), Economic Development Manager, Darrell Lambert says the last two events (August, February) have shown that a resurgence of COVID-19 can impact operations at any time, adding that periodic restrictions are very likely ‘the new normal’.
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 3:18 pm
Knowing what support and advice is available for business
continuity and staff retention will be critical for
Northland businesses should there be a resurgence of
COVID-19.
Ministry of Social Development (MSD), Economic
Development Manager, Darrell Lambert says the last two
events (August, February) have shown that a resurgence of
COVID-19 can impact operations at any time, adding that
periodic restrictions are very likely ‘the new
normal’.
“Business owners will have breathed a sigh
of relief that COVID-19 restrictions didn’t carry over to
the weekend but they need to plan for ‘tomorrow’,
factoring the potential impact of future COVID-19