News 2 Mar – Enrolments Up, Smoking Down

March 2nd 2010 at 8:49am, By Dave Guerin

Enrolments Unitec’s student newspaper reports that enrolment applications are up 35% on last year. West Coast midwifery enrolments are only being held back by a lack of pregnant women volunteers.
IT CPIT has implemented a new IT system that integrates information from many different applications, allowing much richer information on courses to be accessed. I hope it works, as exporting data from various sources and then managing it in standalone spreadsheets is rife in the tertiary system and very inefficient
Students The Uni Games held last year in New Plymouth are up for an annual SPARC Award - if you remember, that was a games without bad behaviour, so it had no coverage…In other student news, 3/4 teams in the finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup are from the University of Auckland – and they have some pretty impressive projects. The NZ winner will go on to the global competition in Poland.
Smoking The University of Auckland has instituted a no smoking policy across the whole campus, inside and outside – it’s apparently the first university in the country to do so.

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