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New Zealand has among the worst school bullying rates in the OECD, with 35 per cent of secondary principals reporting regular acts of intimidation or bullying.
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A company whose technology can kill 99.9 percent of human coronavirus in two hours is among three start-ups based on Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington research that dominate the finalists in the Innovation Gold Category of this year’s Wellington Gold Awards.
Inhibit Coatings was founded in 2016 by Dr Eldon Tate, who studied in the University’s Te Wānanga Matū School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, and uses a broad-spectrum silver antimicrobial agent effective at killing more than 650 types of microorganisms, also including Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Influenza A (H1N1), Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter spp.
The technology’s effectiveness against human coronavirus is the company’s latest discovery, with the agent able to be applied to textiles, filters on face masks, and surfaces inside vehicles such as planes or buses.
Wellington UniVentures has been helping implement the programme in New Zealand schools since 2014. As part of Bullying-Free New Zealand Week, Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon visited Seatoun School to learn about the programme’s impact from students. “Coming to Seatoun School today has just reinforced how important it is for a school to try and eliminate bullying.
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Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon speaking to kids at Seatoun School about the KiVa programme. “It was great to listen to the students, as young as they are, they are very clear about what is bullying.” “We know, from all the reports, that a bully is a bully for life if not taught how not to be a bully and how to be a better person.”