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Profiles of all the Southern recipients from this year's King's Birthday honours list.     CNZM   ‘Privileged’ to work alongside tuatara   Emeritus...

Matauranga Maori has real world value 07 Jul 2021 14:45 PM More Related Stories HASH(0x3094348) Māori academics have forced the chief executive of Universities New Zealand to back down on his inference that Māori produced lower quality research than their peers. Chris Whelan has walked back comments in a radio interview that increasing the weighting for Māori and Pacific research would dilute the effectiveness of the Performance Based Research Fund. Sarah Jane Tiakiwai, the deputy vice...

Matauranga Maori has real world value 07 Jul 2021 14:45 PM More Related Stories HASH(0x3094348) Māori academics have forced the chief executive of Universities New Zealand to back down on his inference that Māori produced lower quality research than their peers. Chris Whelan has walked back comments in a radio interview that increasing the weighting for Māori and Pacific research would dilute the effectiveness of the Performance Based Research Fund. Sarah Jane Tiakiwai, the deputy vice...

Press Release – Tertiary Education Union Te Haut Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is frustrated with the lack of change heralded by the review of the Performance Based Research Fund . National Secretary Sandra Grey is angry that TEUs voice has been largely ignored. She says tinkering … National Secretary Sandra Grey is angry that TEU’s voice has been largely ignored. She says “tinkering with a fundamentally broken system doesn’t benefit the public, learners or staff in the tertia...

Share Seven early career researchers at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington have received a total of $2.24 million to pursue their research into issues ranging from health and wellbeing to climate change after receiving Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Science Whitinga Fellowships. The one-off fellowships, worth $320,000 each over two years, are among 30 awarded in an MBIE initiative administered by Royal Society Te Apārangi to support up-and-coming resear...

OPINION: When income from international students drops, our universities start competing against one another - it’s a bit like rats eating each other when the food runs out.

Wellington.Scoop Two Wellingtonians have become Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit in today’s New Year Honours List: Sue Chetwin, for services to consumer rights. Having begun her career in journalism, Ms Chetwin was editor of the Sunday News from 1994 to 1998, the Sunday Star-Times from 1998 to 2003, and founding editor of the Herald on Sunday from 2003 to 2005. As Chief Executive of Consumer New Zealand from 2007 to 2020 she successfully campaigned for many important consumer la...