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26 Oct 2011I hope you’re all keeping warm if the northern North Island gas leak has shut off your institution’s gas heating! Otago EFTS Down Otago Uni’s EFTS will be… 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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15 Sep 2011Students Protest! The students at Victoria had a noisy protest yesterday, although seemingly helped along a bit by Workers Party types. Seems about 300 turned up to hear… Read Full Story.
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15 Aug 2011Snow Closures Lincoln is closed today due to snow (see picture), as is Canterbury and CPIT. RIP Sir Paul Reeves AUT Chancellor Sir Paul Reeves died of cancer… Read Full Story.
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20 Jul 2011New Secretary of Education Lesley Longstone is the new Secretary of Education and will replace Karen Sewell in November (Dom Post, RNZ, NZEI, PSA). Longstone is currently the… Read Full Story.
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16 Jun 2011Vic vs Greens The Greens have “attacked” Victoria Uni after the Uni asked the political party not to come up to campus during the exam period. While it… Read Full Story.
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23 May 2011Budget An Otago Uni student quite liked the Budget, while the ODT had a roundup of comment, including support from Queenstown Resort College and Otago Uni’s medical faculty…. Read Full Story.
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18 May 2011Dodgy ITOs? The Minister and TEC put out a release yesterday about recovery of $4.3m from 18/38 ITOs over 2009 enrolments that were not backed by the records… Read Full Story.
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17 May 2011King’s Education The inquest into the deaths of nine earthquake victims who could not be identified after the quake started yesterday (and concluded that they were all dead),… Read Full Story.
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12 May 2011John Key’s Speech…yesterday didn’t say much at all about student loans that Steven Joyce hadn’t already said more about (NZPA reviews that). All Key said was that they… Read Full Story.