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UNZ Welcomes Government’s Plans To Address University And Science System Challenges
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 2:45 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Universities New Zealand – Te Pokāi Tara welcomes the Government’s announcement that two advisory groups will oversee an exploration of the challenges and opportunities facing both our universities and our science system. Professor Cheryl de la Rey, ... More >>
Celebrating 150 Years Of Scientific Partnership With The United States
Monday, 26 February 2024, 10:40 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
This year, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University and the Chatham Islands Museum, with support from Universities New Zealand Te Pōkai Tara (UNZ), will celebrate the 150-year anniversary of formal scientific partnership between New Zealand and the ... More >>
$50,000 Critic And Conscience Of Society Award 2024 Open For Applications
Monday, 20 November 2023, 9:14 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Applications are now open for the 2024 Critic and Conscience of Society Award. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2311/31addd0559c203c1838f.jpeg" width="720" height="720"> 2023 winner Dr Dean Knight (left) ... More >>
2024 Rhodes Scholars Announced
Wednesday, 8 November 2023, 9:15 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Established in 1903, the Rhodes Scholarship is the oldest international scholarship programme, bringing outstanding young people together from around the world to study at the University of Oxford. The selection panel, which in New Zealand is chaired ... More >>
The Sound Of Success – Four Young Kiwi Musicians Share Their Talents With The World
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 11:19 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Four exceptional young classical musicians have been awarded a 2023 Kiwi Music Scholarship to help them pursue their dreams internationally. The annual Kiwi Music Scholarship is funded through the Kiwi Music Trust to recognise emerging classical musicians’ ... More >>
Exceptional Minds, Exceptional Futures – 2024 Woolf Fisher Scholarship Recipients Announced
Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 9:59 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Fundamental questions of memory, existence, and reality feature in the research interests of this year’s Woolf Fisher Scholarship recipients. Worth approximately $70,000 a year for up to four years, a Woolf Fisher Scholarship is one of the most ... More >>
Off To Cambridge University To Gain A Fresh Perspective On The New Zealand Economy
Saturday, 30 September 2023, 8:00 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Angus Baker, recipient of this year’s Sir Douglas Myers Scholarship has one mission: to be the best he can be. Originally from Gisborne, Angus is a recent graduate of Auckland Grammar School where he excelled in Economics, Mathematics, and French. ... More >>
New Zealand Universities Shine In Latest International Rankings
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 10:26 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
All eight New Zealand universities have gone up in the rankings in the 2024 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings and all are in the top 500 universities in the world. UNIVERSITY WORLD RANKINGS 2023 2024 Change University of Auckland 87 68 ... More >>
Ethel Benjamin Scholarship Winner To Attend Yale Law School
Tuesday, 13 June 2023, 3:41 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Universities New Zealand Te Pōkai Tara is delighted to announce that Auckland lawyer Jessica Fenton has been awarded the 2023 New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholarship. Jessica Fenton The award was established in 1997 by the New Zealand ... More >>
Research Vital To Aotearoa New Zealand Supported By The William Georgetti Scholarship
Tuesday, 13 June 2023, 12:08 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
From theoretical physics to addressing fundamental issues in the criminal justice system, the nine recipients of the William Georgetti Scholarships for 2023 represent some of the finest student researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand. The purpose of the ... More >>
Supporting A Young Musician’s First Steps On The World Stage
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 10:19 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
An outstanding young Aotearoa New Zealand soprano has been awarded a 2023 Kia Ora Foundation Patricia Pratt Scholarship to support her study towards a Master of Music in Performance Classical Voice at San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM). <img ... More >>
More Pressure For Universities In Budget 2023
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 3:52 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara appreciates the 5% increase in funding for teaching (Delivery and Quality - DQ funding) as outlined in today’s Budget. “This increase comes at a time when the university sector is under significant ... More >>
Critic And Conscience Of Society Award Winner Holds Those In Power To Account
Friday, 12 May 2023, 3:05 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
For the vital role he has played in contributing analysis and academic expertise to areas of public interest, the winner of the 2023 Critic and Conscience of Society Award is Dr Dean Knight, Associate Professor of Law at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University ... More >>
Universities Launch ‘Piki Ake’: A Transition Programme Designed To Change The Trajectory For Upcoming Māori Researchers
Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 5:05 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
The Pike Ake transition programme seeks to redesign the trajectory for Māori researchers across New Zealand’s eight universities. Piki Ake is an MBIE-funded, whole-of-university sector initiative being overseen by peak body Universities New Zealand—Te Pōkai ... More >>
North Shore Robertson Scholar An Extraordinary All-rounder
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 4:44 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
‘An extraordinary all-rounder who goes above and beyond what is usually expected of a high school student’. That is how one of his teachers describes Hunter Haynes , 18, winner of this year’s Robertson Scholars Leadership Program. Hunter completed ... More >>
Myers Scholarship Recipient Looks Forward To Giving NZ A Voice In Cambridge
Thursday, 9 February 2023, 3:36 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Rangimarie Puttick , recipient of this year’s Sir Douglas Myers Scholarship to attend Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, will go to Cambridge “not only enormously grateful to have been given this opportunity ... More >>
‘Robust’ Research Track Record Wins NZ A Place In Flagship EU Programme
Wednesday, 21 December 2022, 2:05 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
New Zealand’s eight universities welcome the conclusion of negotiations between the Government and the European Commission to give New Zealand researchers access to Horizon Europe, the European Union’s flagship programme for research and innovation. ... More >>
Universities Look Forward To Contributing To Research Sector White Paper Reforms
Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 10:28 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
As trainers of most of the country’s researchers and home to nearly 60% of them, New Zealand’s eight universities expect to be key contributors to the major overhaul of the research, science and innovation (RSI) system promised ... More >>
Bilateral Forum Reaffirms Universities’ Close Ties With Viet Nam
Monday, 5 December 2022, 9:37 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
New Zealand’s eight universities have welcomed today’s Viet Nam–New Zealand Education Forum hosted at The University of Waikato as an opportunity to reaffirm and strengthen the sector’s longstanding relationships with Viet Nam. Image: Ho ... More >>
$50,000 Critic And Conscience Of Society Award 2023 Opens For Applications
Monday, 14 November 2022, 1:32 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
New Zealand university academics who excel at keeping the public informed with their expert commentary could receive a $50,000 grant as the 2023 Critic and Conscience of Society Award opens for applications. The 2023 winner of the award will be following ... More >>
