Archive for the ‘Research’ Category

Today’s Spotlight is on Pat Walsh, the Chair of Universities New Zealand (and VC of Victoria University of Wellington). Spotlight is a series of posts where ED Blog… Read Full Story.

Policy, Management & People King’s Education About 100 Japanese people will fly to NZ next month to mark the year since the death of 12 Japanese King’s Education… Read Full Story.

Policy, Management & People New TV Ads I was going to write a post about new TV ads put out by ITPs, but StopPress wrote much the same… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Youth Unemployment The Reject Youth Unemployment coalition wants to meet Paula Bennett to discuss youth unemployment issues – given it is a leftwing coalition that… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Unitec Trades Boost Unitec will add 34% (more than a thousand) places in 2012 over 2011 in construction, civil engineering, carpentry, electrical engineering, plumbing and… Read Full Story.

Rena Waikato’s’ Chris Battershill spoke to the Science Media Centre, RNZ and the Bay of Plenty Times about the impacts of the oil spill, and to the NZ… Read Full Story.

Mehrtens vs Robot Andrew Mehrtens drew with a Massey Albany robot in a goal kicking competition (NZN, APNZ, Auckland Now, NewstalkZB, Fairfax, 3News, The Press). Labour Policy Labour… Read Full Story.

THE Rankings The NZ Herald has a story on the latest THE rankings – I wrote a post last night on them. AUT Fraud Jonathan Kirkpatrick has been… Read Full Story.

Lincoln 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.

Canterbury 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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