News 22/7 – WITT Fees Up

July 22nd 2010 at 9:01am, By Dave Guerin

  1. WITT Fees up WITT has increased its fees by 4% across the board, but has not increased its $40 student services fee (or other fees). This is the first fees increase for next year that I’ve seen reported.
  2. Capital Times A columnist in Wellington’s Capital Times likes Steven Joyce’s graduate outcomes idea, mainly for the focus on graduates actually getting jobs, rather than going overseas. In the same paper, a former Massey student broke his wrist in the running of the bulls in Pamplona – let’s see if it makes their newsletter!
  3. New Toy NIWA has installed a new supercomputer at Greta Point, Wellington. It will apparently be “will be available for use by scientists around the country, enabling them to conduct research on grand challenge problems in the fields of energy, weather and climate modelling”. Unfortunately, though, the example given is of University of Auckland researchers looking at computer models of the human body – not quite the right fit!
  4. ITO Awards The NZ Contractors Federation has named the finalists in its Trainee of the Year competition – winner announced in August. The Registered Master Builders’ Federation’s Apprentice of the Year competition, supported by BCITO, has 155 entrants.
  5. Cool Ads A couple of weeks back I mentioned that Media Design School students had won a newspaper ad competition – you can see their winning entries here.
  6. Pests I wrote about 1080 yesterday and today a Massey masters student is looking at how to reduce the amount of poison put out for rats and mice, while still killing them.
  7. Otago Poly Otago Poly has signed an MOU with South Korea’s Kookje College. The Poly’s fashion grads did very well at an Australian fashion competition too.
  8. Dairy Research A DairyNZ principal scientist has been appointed as an adjunct professor at Lincoln University.
  9. Maori Success An 84 year old delivered a speech in Te Reo Maori for the first time at a tangi last month. He’s a graduate of a joint Te Wananga o Aotearoa and Te Wananga o Raukawa course. Meanwhile, a NorthTec student talks meaningfully about his learning journey.
  10. Grow and Eat MIT students recently finished their L2 horticulture courses, and got to eat some of the vegetables they had been growing.
  11. Sculpture Three UCOL grads are finalists in a new Wanganui Sculpture event.

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