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21 Dec 2011Policy & Management Whitireia Buildings Whitireia has pulled out of a $3m contribution to a performing arts development in Porirua, both because they’ve moved their course into Wellington… Read Full Story.
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13 Dec 2011Policy & Management New Ministers John Key announced new Ministers yesterday, with Steven Joyce keeping tertiary education (adding “skills and employment” too) and picking up economic development, plus… Read Full Story.
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12 Dec 2011Policy & Management Joyce’s Roles The NZ Herald reckons that Steven Joyce can “expect to leap to a front-bench position and the economic development and science and innovation… Read Full Story.
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30 Sep 2011Lincoln on Environment Lincoln University has released the findings of its 6th biennial survey of Peoples’ Perceptions of the State of the New Zealand Environment (link to report)…. Read Full Story.
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29 Sep 2011VSM Bill Passes ACT’s Heather Roy celebrated her VSM Bill passing, providing freedom of association for students, as did Act on Campus and the Young Nationals (NewstalkZB, RNZ,… Read Full Story.
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28 Sep 2011Canterbury Demolitions Canterbury is demolishing two buildings – the Mushroom (which looks quite cool) and Siemon buildings – after quake-related damage (The Press). David Do went on TV3… Read Full Story.
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27 Sep 2011VSM Protests There was a medium sized noisy protest up in Auckland yesterday about voluntary student membership (as well as fees and democracy on campus). It wasn’t organised… Read Full Story.
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9 Sep 2011Blender Win The Smoobo blender, which we profiled a while back, has won third place for Massey student Roseanne de Bruin at the Electrolux Design Lab competition in… Read Full Story.
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8 Sep 2011VSM The VSM Bill passed its committee stage Earlier in the day students called for a compromise, but they had already lodged a request for an urgent Waitangi… Read Full Story.
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24 Aug 2011Explaining is Losing I love the PR/politics phrase that “explaining is losing” and it applies perfectly to this headline: “Varsities not rolling in cash – Maharey“. VSM In… Read Full Story.