This post summarises all the info on the Christchurch quake received so far – another post was produced on Saturday and updated until now. Please use the contact form (Contact Us on the top menu) if you have any info.

• The University of Canterbury is closed until Monday 13 September, when they open for Term 4. All students are requested not to come to campus, except for Muslim students needing to use the prayer room. All staff are requested to stay off campus, unless authorised to come in by their relevant senior management team member. All campus events are cancelled in the upcoming week and off-campus events are postponed pending confirmation.VC Rod Carr says that “The extent of damage is certainly in the millions of dollars and will cause distress to staff and students.  We now need to get on with our assessment and clean-up.” A Sunday update provides more detail on the issues and says there will be an assessment of the situation on Wednesday. Libraries and laboratories seem to be worse affected.
• CPIT’s campus will be closed to students and staff on Monday 6th September.
• Lincoln  will be closed until Monday 13 September. According to RNZ , VC Roger Field said that “some buildings, including the administration block, are completely off-limits because of the danger of falling masonry and broken glass”.  Staff, students and halls of residence students are asked  to stay away until further notice. More info will be provided on Monday afternoon, including on whether assessment deadlines must be met.
• The University of Otago’s Chchcampus is closed Mon-Tues, with staff not expected to come in on Monday. Initial inspections of the University of Otago Christchurch buildings show no major structural damage. However further inspections are being done to ensure that these facilities are entirely safe, that fire protection measures remain intact, and that services such as water and sewerage are functioning. 
• Tai Poutini Polytechnic’s two MAINZ facilities have apparently not suffered significant damage while their site at CPIT’s Sullivan Ave is still being assessed. Tai Poutini will move forward a term break by two weeks, starting Monday 6/9, to give things a chance to settle down. CE Paul Wilson said RE MAINZ students: ”Due to the uncertainty that has arisen from the earthquake, including question marks over public transport and basic utilities such as power and water, it has been decided that the best course of action is to bring the holidays forward for students and for students to regroup in two weeks time”. Digger and Scaffolding School students were to contact their programme coordinators about their classes.
• Laidlaw College’s buildings are apparently fine, but they pointed me to this story about the house of a lecturer, Dr Richard Neville, that is likely to be demolished.
• Natcoll’s Christchurch campus had only 1 computer monitor broken (they must have 100) and everything else was sitting on the desks, while the national network was still going. They’ll be closed Monday, waiting for the building owner to confirm that the engineers have cleared the building.
• Sir George Seymour College has no major damage. Ceiling panels have fallen from the roof (along with the batts) in the main wing rooms, common room and offices, filing cabinets & shelves  tipped over etc.  The campus will stay closed on Monday to students.
• Going Places “doesn’t look too bad inside but the building hasn’t been checked by the safety team”.
• Avonmore Tertiary Institute is closed on Monday
• SIT’s Christchurch campus will be closed Mon 6-Tues 7 Sep. The Southland Times reports that CE Penny Simmonds believed the campus was fine structurally, but inspectors would need to confirm this. “There is quite a lot of work to tidy things up, and also staff probably need to be concentrating on getting their own homes sorted out,” she said. She hoped the campus would open again on Wednesday.
• The Apparel and Textile ITO’s head office in Christchurch will be closed until at least Wed 8/9. It is in the CBD and they need to be sure that services are up and running, and the site is safe. They’re based in ITO House and there are a number of head and branch offices for ITOs there.
• NZAPEP’s annual conference, scheduled for 8-9 Sep in Christchurch has been postponed, according to Ako Aotearoa.
• Aoraki Polytechnic’s Moorhouse Ave and QEII campuses will be closed Mon 6-Tue 7 Sep.
• Te Wananga O Aotearoa advises that its “buildings at Moorehouse Avenue (Science Alive) and 159 Manchester Street are closed until further notice. A further update will be made Monday evening 6 September”.
• WelTec has a Christchurch campus in the same Science Alive building that TWOA is in, and it is closed until Friday 10/9 to students and staff.
• Design & Arts College is closed until Mon 13/9, with staff asked to retrun on Fri 10/9.

Good progress is being made on fixing things though. Darel Hall (who manages the hostels at UC) commented on my earlier post just now, saying that, other than water, “looking at our situation board we really have very little left to do to get everyone back focused on their studies.”