News 27/7 – Plane Crash & Unitec Sponsors Rugby

July 27th 2010 at 8:48am, By Dave Guerin

Library Wars Canterbury Uni law students have written a strong submission in support of the retention of their law librarian, who is caught up in the major library restructuring down there.
Plane Crash An instructor and a student died in a plane collision near Feilding yesterday, while the student pilot of the other plane managed to land safely. All three seemed to be with Flight Training Manawatu, a provider that is associated with NMIT, which subcontracts a number of flight training companies around NZ. It has not been reported whether the dead student was an NMIT student or not.
Sport and Education SunLive has a story on Bay of Plenty Poly’s High Performance Academy students. Up in Auckland, Unitec has developed a partnership with Auckland Rugby, providing education opportunities to staff and players, while also becoming a sponsor of the Auckland provincial and Super 15 teams (they’ll join SIT as a provincial rugby sponsor).
OUSA Reform Yesterday I mentioned an article on reform at OUSA – here’s the main story from the weekend and here’s a story on complaints about the referendum.
NorthTec Council NorthTec has filled their last (correction, second to last) Council seat with the head of the local economic development agency.
MacDiarmid Institute Last week I did a post on the presentation of Alan MacDiarmid’s Nodel medal to Victoria Uni. Just after that, I saw this great post on SciBlogs about the development of the MacDiarmid Institute – well worth a read for those keen on science.
Farming Science For those keen on farming, here’s a story on Lincoln Uni research about sheep feed productivity.