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NZUSA - New Zealand Union of Students' Associations
We stand for opportunity, for all.
NZUSA is the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations, the national body that represents New Zealand's students' associations and the interests of New Zealand's 400,000 students at universities, polytechnics and in trades training.
We conduct original research, advocate to Government and through the media, and support New Zealand's students' associations to be more effective on behalf of their members. We advocate alongside Te Mana Akonga – The National Māori Students' Association, and Tertiary Women New Zealand – The NZUSA Women's Caucus.
Since 1929, we've believed in a society rich in opportunity, where anyone from anywhere can become any thing. We support accessible, affordable quality public tertiary education.
NZUSA - New Zealand Union of Students' Associations - Latest News [Page 11]
Governance proposal ill-considered and unnecessary
Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 2:56 pm | NZ Union of Students' Associations
Tertiary Minister Steven Joyce has announced today that he is to proceed with his widely condemned “reforms” of university & wānanga governance. “NZUSA believes that the proposed changes are ill-considered and unnecessary, and inconsistent ... More >>
NZ wins Gold at Student Winter Games in Italy
Monday, 23 December 2013, 10:32 am | NZUSA
New Zealand snowboarder Natalie Good has won the women's competition in the snowboard slopestyle event at the International University Sports Federation's Winter Universiade in Trentino, Italy. More >>
Government silent on surplus money reaped from Student Loans
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 2:55 pm | NZUSA
The government has remained strangely silent on a report released this week showing that repayments on student loans in the last year have run almost $200 million ahead of forecasts. More >>
University of Auckland student president to lead NZUSA
Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 4:52 pm | NZ Union of Students' Associations
The nationwide membership of the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations today elected Daniel Haines, 23, to be the NZUSA President for 2014. More >>
Wellington conference highlights importance of Student Voice
Friday, 6 December 2013, 11:46 am | NZUSA
The importance of research into hearing and heeding the student voice for ensuring and enhancing the future quality of tertiary education has been highlighted at an international conference on student services closing at Victoria University in Wellington ... More >>
Student Leaders Unified Against Violence to Women
Friday, 22 November 2013, 1:53 pm | NZUSA
Male student presidents at campuses around New Zealand have joined in taking the White Ribbon Day Pledge to never commit, condone or remain silent about violence towards women. More >>
Sue Barker Charities Law Boutique Is Law Firm of the Year
Monday, 11 November 2013, 7:26 pm | NZ Union of Students' Associations
Sue Barker Charities Law is honoured to have been voted New Zealand’s Boutique Law Firm of the Year at the 2013 New Zealand Law Awards. The firm is also honoured to have been voted first runner-up in the Tax Law Firm of the Year Award. “It is ... More >>
Students join call for public debate on tertiary education
Monday, 11 November 2013, 4:53 pm | NZ Union of Students' Associations
Student leaders from the NZ Union of Students’ Associations have applauded the Tertiary Education Union on the release of its blueprint for tertiary education – Te Kaupapa Whaioranga - today. More >>
Tertiary Education Minister supports student voice
Saturday, 9 November 2013, 12:17 pm | NZUSA
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce endorsed the importance of an active student voice to institutions in the tertiary education sector when he opened the 2013 Congress of the NZ Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) today. More >>
Research to reveal student perspective on tertiary education
Friday, 1 November 2013, 5:08 pm | NZ Union of Students' Associations
The NZ Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) has announced steps in the final stages of its new research programme designed to strengthen the voice of tertiary students at campuses throughout New Zealand in 2014. More >>
Select Committee interested in amnesty period for borrowers
Friday, 18 October 2013, 9:01 am | NZUSA
The latest proposed round of changes to Student Loan legislation has prompted a discussion in the Finance & Expenditure Select Committee about a different approach to drawing money back to New Zealand from Overseas Based Borrowers – including the idea of ... More >>
Minister for Tertiary Education to respond to students
Thursday, 10 October 2013, 10:23 am | NZUSA
The NZ Union of Students' Associations (NZUSA) has delivered a letter to Minister for Tertiary Education Steven Joyce outlining student concerns about the downward pressures put on students and their ability to access quality tertiary education ... More >>
National student president to meet with Steven Joyce
Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 9:35 am | NZUSA
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce will meet in his Beehive office tomorrow with Pete Hodkinson, President of the NZ Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) to review a representative range of issues facing New Zealand’s 420,000 tertiary ... More >>
Substance of Tertiary Education Strategy at risk
Wednesday, 2 October 2013, 4:57 pm | NZ Union of Students' Associations
Today’s release of the National Government’s draft Tertiary Education Strategy for 2014-2019 is at risk of being sidelined by Minister Steven Joyce’s unilateral move to shut down the representative model currently in place for University Councils, ... More >>
Council Elections Attract Student Leaders
Friday, 27 September 2013, 1:33 pm | NZUSA
Outgoing student presidents at the University of Canterbury and University of Otago may set a New Zealand first if they are elected to respective city councils in Christchurch and Dunedin in October. More >>
Student Voice under a National Spotlight
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 10:47 am | NZUSA
New Zealand’s national body for students, the NZ Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA), is taking its ‘Nothing About Students, Without Students’ campaign to educational leaders in the university and polytechnic sectors today in Auckland. More >>
Rising Student Interest in Council Elections
Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:10 pm | NZUSA
Students’ associations at university and polytechnic campuses around New Zealand are doing their bit to increase student interest in this year’s local government elections. More >>
Rising Student Interest In Council Elections
Friday, 20 September 2013, 1:43 pm | NZUSA
Students’ associations at university and polytechnic campuses around New Zealand are doing their bit to increase student interest in this year’s local government elections. More >>
Still Time For Students to Vote In Council Elections
Thursday, 19 September 2013, 5:09 pm | NZUSA
The NZ Union of Students’ Associations is urging tertiary students around the country to exercise their right to vote in the 2013 Local Government elections. More >>
A Job For Every Graduate
Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 5:11 pm | NZ Union of Students' Associations
On the eve of the launch of the latest Tertiary Education Strategy that proposes punishing tertiary institutions for the employment outcomes of their graduates, it’s time for the government to step up and take responsibility for delivering the jobs. More >>
