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Victoria honours distinguished architect
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 1:33 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
An architect whose award-winning designs span beach houses to the Southern Hemisphere’s tallest tower is to receive an honorary doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington. More >>
Twenty years on – GST reaches a major milestone
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:56 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Twenty years after the Goods & Services Tax revolutionised New Zealand’s taxation system, the controversial tax will be the subject of a major conference at Victoria University. More >>
Inaugural Chair in E-Government appointed
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 11:19 am | Victoria University of Wellington
An Oxford University researcher has been appointed as the inaugural Chair in E-Government at Victoria University of Wellington, one of the first such positions in the world. More >>
Prime Minister honours top policy researchers
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 1:06 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
The top scholars in Victoria University’s public policy, public management and strategic studies programmes will receive their prizes from Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Helen Clark, at the School of Government’s fourth anniversary celebrations ... More >>
Water—the ‘oil’ of the 21st Century?
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 10:17 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Two hundred years after Coleridge penned his famous line—Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink—the state of water supplies in New Zealand and Australia will be the focus of a one-day conference at Victoria University. More >>
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
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. More >>
