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Uninvited – a season of three plays

Monday, 2 October 2006, 10:55 am | Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington’s Theatre programme presents this year's fourth and final season of student directed plays. While all three plays, from students in the third-year theatre directing course, are comically entertaining they each ... More >>

Leading marine scientist to speak at Victoria

Thursday, 28 September 2006, 10:34 am | Victoria University of Wellington

A leading British expert on sea level change and coastal flooding is to give a public lecture at Victoria University next week. More >>

Critics miss the point, says researcher

Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 9:54 am | Victoria University of Wellington

A Victoria University researcher whose submission on the Telecommunications Amendment Bill has been criticised by lobbyists says her critics have missed the point. More >>

Debaters vie for Plunket Medal

Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 3:23 pm | Victoria University of Wellington

The Plunket Medal for Oratory—one of the oldest and most prestigious public speaking competitions in New Zealand—celebrates its 101st birthday tomorrow (Wednesday 27 September) when four Victoria University students vie for the coveted award. More >>

International opera scholar honoured

Monday, 25 September 2006, 2:18 pm | Victoria University of Wellington

Internationally recognised opera historian, writer and librettist, Jeremy Commons, is to receive an honorary doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington. More >>

Dutch Queen's visit inspires ongoing exchange

Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 5:10 pm | Victoria University of Wellington

The visit to New Zealand in 1992 by Dutch Queen Beatrix inspired a relationship between Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Groningen that is still going strong. Having encouraged a number of Victoria University students to spend a semester ... More >>

Tourism programme has double celebration

Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 11:38 am | Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington’s Tourism programme has cause for double celebration this week. More >>

Victoria Council increases student fees

Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 8:57 am | Victoria University of Wellington

The Victoria University of Wellington Council today voted to increase domestic undergraduate student fees for 2007 by five percent, the maximum allowed under the Government’s fees maxima regime. More >>

Listening to the Alpine Fault

Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 12:06 am | Victoria University of Wellington

Understanding why one part of New Zealand’s Alpine Fault has so few earthquakes compared to elsewhere on the fault is the focus of a research project at Victoria University. More >>

Top Linguist visiting Wellington

Monday, 18 September 2006, 1:16 pm | Victoria University of Wellington

The stories of English, Language Death and The Future of Language are the lectures to be presented by one of the world's leading commentators on language when he visits New Zealand later this month. Professor David Crystal will be visiting New Zealand, ... More >>

Great Drama Unfolds

Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 5:14 pm | Victoria University of Wellington

In three short plays showing at Victoria University’s Studio 77 next week characters are driven to extremes by their wants and urges. They lose control of the situations around them and it is then that great theatre becomes inescapable. Watch the drama ... More >>

Monumental biography launched

Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 1:30 pm | Victoria University of Wellington

A biography of one of New Zealand’s greatest historians and scholars, John Cawte (J.C.) Beaglehole, will be launched at his alma mater, Victoria University of Wellington, tomorrow (13 September). More >>

Victoria campaign promotes critical thought

Monday, 11 September 2006, 11:52 am | Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University launches its annual brand campaign this month, featuring three new commercials running on television and in cinemas. Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Mackay, says the campaign, now in its seventh year, will also be supported ... More >>

Victoria researchers gain funding boost

Thursday, 7 September 2006, 3:55 pm | Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University researchers have been given a significant funding boost, picking up funding worth almost $4.7 million for 11 new research projects from the Marsden Fund. More >>

Top Linguist to lecture at Vic

Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 3:08 pm | Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria disappointed at Govt fee decision

Monday, 4 September 2006, 2:50 pm | Victoria University of Wellington

The Tertiary Education Commission’s decision to reject Victoria University’s application to increase some student fees by more than five percent doesn’t address the current industry problem of cross-subsidisation across faculties, and reduces ... More >>

Climate change policy under the spotlight

Monday, 4 September 2006, 12:03 am | Victoria University of Wellington

A day-long public symposium on global and domestic policies on climate change will be held at the Wellington Town Hall on 6 October. The Climate Change Policy Symposium will pay particular attention to the policy issues facing agriculture and forestry, ... More >>