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The University of Otago aims to get through its financial struggles by increasing enrolments by 20% and rapidly lifting the number of international...

29 Apr 2021 RURAL RESEARCH: Prof Stephen Roper FARMERS and operators of other rural businesses are being asked how they are dealing with Covid-19 as part of a major new survey. There is little research about how small firms in rural areas manage crises and how they recover, so the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) plans to speak to more than 4,000 businesses in the next two months to shed light on the issue. The survey – NICRE’s first – asks rural businesses abou...