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21 Nov 2011Policy & Management REAP! REAP doesn’t get much media coverage but Southern REAP’s new building attracted the PM and Deputy PM. Civil Defence Hub Massey wants to build… Read Full Story.
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9 Nov 2011Policy & 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.
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30 Aug 2011King’s Education The sister of Gillian Sayers, a King’s Education teacher who died in the quake, had a statement read out to the inquest yesterday. She questioned what… Read Full Story.
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21 Jun 2011Drug Bust An Otago Poly student was found with $15-20,000 of cannabis (NB Police estimate, probably inflated and based on street value) in Cromwell last October. He got… Read Full Story.
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5 Apr 2011Quake Stories A Canterbury Uni accounting professor survived a building that fell around him and it was all caught on CCTV. A King’s Education student, Rika Hyuga, has… Read Full Story.
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31 Mar 2011Levy Controls Steven Joyce has announced a new Bill to control what institutions charge for student services levies and require student input (NZPA, RNZ). NZUSA welcomed it and… Read Full Story.
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25 Mar 2011Oxford Exchange UC (I’m sick of typing their full name!) has announced a student exchange with the University of Oxford – 42 honours and postgrad students will spend… Read Full Story.
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2 Mar 2011Warm Moment A Japanese King’s Education student is visited by her rescuers. CTV Building There will be an inquiry into the CTV and PGC building collapses, but it… Read Full Story.
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29 Nov 2010PM’s Science Award I’ll lead with a slew of stories about the PM’s Science Award winners (also NZPA). the top one of $500K went to a team at Victoria Uni led… Read Full Story.
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22 Nov 2010PTE Regulation The NZ Herald reported yesterday on Grant Robertson’s (Labour) support for Steven Joyce’s PTE regulation changes – although Grant put in a few caveats, as one would expect (Grant’s… Read Full Story.