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Antarctic evidence too strong to ignore
Monday, 9 February 2009, 3:40 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
More than 50 top international polar scientists will meet at Victoria University of Wellington this week to discuss their cutting-edge climate change research. More >>
City gardeners can help save wasps
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 2:55 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Conserving areas of bush and forest in cities is essential to the conservation of New Zealand’s wasp species, according to research from Victoria University. With more than 1,000 native species, wasps are an important part of New Zealand’s biodiversity ... More >>
Spectacular battle scenes in Summer Shakespeare
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 12:09 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Expect battle scenes the scale of which are rarely seen on stage when Summer Shakespeare returns in 2009 with the Bard’s most exciting play, Henry V. More >>
Inaugural graduates of the Victoria Plus Award
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 11:13 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Students at Victoria University can now enrich their formal qualifications and develop their social responsibility, leadership and employability skills by joining the Victoria Plus Award programme. More >>
Relationships And Redemption
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 12:30 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Scriptwriters Hannah McKie and Simon Hall have jointly won the annual David Carson-Parker Embassy Trust Prize for their stories about relationships within a Christchurch family home and a Catholic priest's journey to Africa. More >>
KiwiSaver changes will change little
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 12:17 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
The changes to KiwiSaver announced yesterday will do little to address the growing gap in trans-Tasman retirement savings New Zealanders now face, according to a Victoria University researcher. More >>
Paula Boock will be the 2009 Writer in Residence
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 10:36 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Ms Boock has worked as an author, publisher and screen writer. Her books have been published in Australia, the UK and USA, and the television drama series she has written for have screened in numerous countries. More >>
Newest Victoria graduates celebrate success
Monday, 1 December 2008, 1:29 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
More than 1,000 students will celebrate successfully completing their studies during next week’s graduation procession and ceremonies. Victoria’s endofyear graduation celebrations begin with a street parade at 12 noon on Tuesday 9 December from Government ... More >>
Perspectives of an historic election
Monday, 1 December 2008, 10:13 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Politicians, political scientists and journalists will this month offer their perspectives on what has turned out to be an historic election. More >>
Future architects and designers display work
Thursday, 20 November 2008, 12:23 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
The work of New Zealand's future architects and designers will be exhibited at Victoria University's Te Aro campus until 5 December 2008. More >>
Code of conduct needed for ministerial staff
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 9:44 am | Victoria University of Wellington
The incoming National-led Government needs to put in place a code of conduct for nondepartmental staff employed in Ministers’ offices, according to researchers from Massey and Victoria universities. More >>
Maori in Australia massively disenfranchised
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 1:05 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
In the lead-up to this Saturday’s election, a Wellington researcher has suggested that Māori in Australia are “massively disenfranchised”. More >>
Election 2008 – Lunchtime Lecture Series
Monday, 13 October 2008, 2:27 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Over the next two months Victoria University’s School of Government and the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) will host a series of lunchtime lectures on some of the key issues for the 2008 New Zealand general election. More >>
Virtual Theatres
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 10:09 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University Senior Lecturer John Downie will this month curate ‘Virtual Theatres’, a series of installations by staff and students in the Film and Theatre programmes. More >>
NZ’s first encyclopaedia online now
Monday, 6 October 2008, 9:59 am | Victoria University of Wellington
The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has made a digital version of New Zealand’s first encyclopaedia—complete with a vision of Friday night at an Eketahuna pub, a glimpse of prison life in 1897 and talk of teenage boys’ smoking rooms at church. More >>
Tryst: a series of three short plays
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 12:11 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Early in October three talented Victoria University directing students will take you on a surreal exploration of identity, self, and lust at its most primal. Tryst is a series of three short plays that meet each other thematically to explore basic ... More >>
Forum on dynamics of leadership in NZ
Monday, 29 September 2008, 11:05 am | Victoria University of Wellington
The Adam Art Gallery is hosting a forum this weekend on the dynamics of leadership in New Zealand. More >>
THEA324 presents: Journey to the West
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 3:35 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Hot on the heels of the 2008 Olympics, this production invokes the “total theatre” tradition of Chinese Opera, integrating stylised acting and martial arts with comic antics and terrifying demons. It also draws inspiration from Thai and Javanese shadow ... More >>
Māori experiences of cancer
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 10:03 am | Victoria University of Wellington
A recent study into Māori experiences of cancer in New Zealand challenges the health system to respond to the needs of Māori and their whānau at all stages of cancer diagnosis and treatment says a team of researchers. More >>
Empty Pleasures
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 1:56 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
From a shared theme of unfulfilled dreams comes a season of three 30-minute Empty Pleasures. More >>
