1. Building/Glass Wintec is finding it hard to fill its construction trades classes while UCOL is not filling the glass school in Wanganui.
2. New Professors Auckland has named 11 new professors.
3. Aviation 25^th Massey’s School of Aviation is celebrating 25 years of operation.
4. New ECE Centre TWOA has started a new ECE centre in Gisborne.
5. Costs Award A sacked Waiariki nursing manager has been awarded $11,000 in costs – this is just the final stage of a case we covered earlier.
6. Hon Docs Owen Glenn (large donor) and Hugh Fletcher (former Chancellor) were given honorary doctorates by Auckland.
7. Extras: Lincoln’s Ann Brower on her lucky quake escape; former South Australian Premier Mike Rann is a visiting fellow at Auckland; NorthTec is getting out to the small centres; EIT Tairawhiti going smokefree and design school head changes; Massey’s Lydia Lobb giving up booze for Feb.

Research & Innovation

1. Cadmium Lincoln’s Brett Robinson is looking into locking up excess cadmium on farms with lignite.
2. Wine Auckland’s Velimir Gayevskiy and Matthew Goddard have found that unique regional wild yeasts play a role in wine.
3. Rock Lobster Victoria’s James Bell is doing DNA tests on rock lobster/crayfish.
4. Traffic Lights Otago Uni’s Rachael McLean supports traffic lights labels on food.
5. Extras: KiwiNet database (ODT); Otago Uni’s Prof Gary Wilson off to the Antarctic; Auckland’s Raina Elley on Pacific adults’ fitness; Auckland’s Steve Matthewman on SUV purchases and Campbell Jones on the Occupy movement; comments on virus research and terrorism.

Public Issues

1. Politics Victoria’s Maria Bargh on Maori Party-National Treaty discussions and again (and AUT’s Rawiri Taonui and Paul Moon too).
2. Whale Death Massey’s Stuart Hunter did a necropsy on a Bryde’s whale.
3. Extras: Harvard professor speaking at AUT; Massey’s Bob Hargreaves on house prices (and in Wellington); support for Victoria’s Winnie Laban over Pacific languages; Auckland’s Prof Des Gorman on sedentary lifestyles; Lincoln’s Prof Keith Woodford quoted over land sales; Auckland’s Peter O’Connor on charter schools; Massey’s Prof Paul Spoonley on Auckland’s growth and Massey’s Mike Joy on dairy; Massey still has 17 penguins.

Students

1. Olympics Two Waiariki paddlers off to Olympics.
2. The Naked and Famous…will play at Auckland’s Orientation.
3. Post VSM Student group EXMSS is promoting its benefits as is the association at Waiarki.
4. Extras: SIT basketballer; woman who poured petrol over herself and lit it is now off to Massey; students doing summer jobs;; Victoria Summer Shakespeare.

Stakeholders

1. Jewellery Mentors Whitireia’s Peter Deckers came up with a great idea to match grads with their jewellery role models, who then agreed to mentor them. Now the grads are having an exhibition. What a fantastic idea.
2. Extras: write Helen Lowe is in residence at Canterbury; Massey pop-up garden.

Teaching & Learning

1. Oral Health AUT is expanding its oral health provision.
2. Extras: Otago Uni summer school weaving.

1. PEI Post-Mortem The Taranaki Daily News did an editorial and story on Practical Education Institute yesterday. They have finally found TEC course completion stats on TEC’s website and it’s interesting that it’s only now, exactly a month after they first broke the story, that they found those figures. It reinforces for me how poorly TEC highlights that data – it’s supposed to help students, while professional journalists can’t easily find it. Anyway, the Daily News is finally bringing some more useful context to the closure – PEI’s poor results. NewstalkZB quotes local mayor Harry Duynhoven on the closure and the impact on staff.
2. 4^th Generation Melanie Bunce is the fourth generation of females in her family to teach at Otago Uni.
3. UC Enrolments Canterbury’s Rod Carr is navigating a fine line between saying enrolments are OK, encouraging new enrolments and not suggesting they’re in trouble. I think he’s doing it well. No-one’s picked up the media release, but the messaging could just as easily be aimed at competitors and agents.
4. Extras: Michael Morrissey is new Waikato writer in residence; honours for Auckland staff; Otago Poly blokarter; extra places for EIT trades academy; EIT merger process rolls on; new EIT associate professors.

Research & Innovation

1. Corruption Victoria’s Ron Fischer and Seini O’Connor have found that corruption declines with rising incomes – anyone surprised? I would have thought a simple correlation of GDP/capita and Transparency International rankings would have told you that.
2. Extras: NMIT tutors put on an art exhibition; Victoria drug research.

Public Issues

1. Yous Victoria’s Laurie Bauer has a nice take on the difference between you and yous.
2. Smoking Otago Uni smoking research has been picked up with most focusing on high rates amongst kohanga reo teachers (ODT, NZH).
3. Generational Advantage Otago Uni’s David Fergusson has found that kids from richer families do better (ODT).
4. Extras: Otago Uni’s Bruce Robertson on sea lions and Prof Mark Henaghen on the Turangi case; dead kakapo to be checked out at Massey; Waikato’s Pawel Olsewski commenting on a really drunk person and Auckland’s Niki Harre on a similar case; Massey’s Mike Joy on fish ropes; Otago Poly’s Daniel Pfyl making beef olives; Auckland’s Julia Tolmie has chaired a group looking at family violence deaths; world’s first (?) magazine on display at Otago Uni; Massey’s David Trip on Oz banks’ staff cuts and Kiwibank’s purchase of GMI; oiled birds released from Massey; NMIT’s Alan Barnes on the building outlook; Canterbury’s Stefano Pampanin on the Grand Chancellor building (The Press).

Students

1. Debating Jargon I have a friend who is keen on debating and he’s always tweeting about teams “breaking” or “making the octo-finals” and I never really have any idea about what he’s on about. This media release from Auckland debaters uses the same jargon that detracts from their good performance in Manila. Victoria debaters did well too.
2. NZer of the Year Auckland’s Lizzie Chan is up for Young NZer of the year.
3. Extras: UCOL grad’s exhibition; Victoria Summer Shakespeare; CPIT lecturer and Canterbury student has successful blog; Waikato student did homeless shelter feasibility study.

Stakeholders

1. Extras: Massey ECE teacher does performing arts teaching; Otago Uni’s Judy Bellingham at a summer singing school; rental demand in student towns; EIT student gets Mission scholarship.

Teaching & Learning

1. Tour Course I quite like Excel School of Performing Arts’ tour course, where students spend the year touring the country (and Poland/Germany for part of it). What a great idea.
2. Extras: UCOL trades academy; NorthTec prison training;

1. New ENZ CE Grant McPherson is the new CE of Education New Zealand – he is currently the Deputy CE of NZTE and has a strong trade background.
2. Whitireia Building Closed Whitireia closed its journalism school building yesterday – I wrote about it here – and it will cost about $600K to fix the building (TV3, RNZ, Newswire, One News).
3. Extras: TEU on possible boycott on new Victoria jobs and NorthTec difficulties.

Research & Innovation

1. AUT Research Awards The AUT VC’s research awards have been given out – Prof Elaine Rush was the big winner.
2. Robots Auckland’s Elizabeth Broadbent is trialling robots in an Auckland retirement village.
3. Sea Lions MAF’s proposal to cease limits on sea lion by-catch is challenged by Otago Uni’s Bruce Robertson’s research.
4. Ants Landcare Research is weighing in to dispute Victoria research on Argentina ants.
5. Extras: Massey’s Prof Murray Patterson on Tauranga harbour research (SunLive); Pasifika research conferences at Massey; Victoria PhD research on pleasure reading; Massey PhD research on air pilot-engineer communication; Lincoln’s kiwifruit research; Waikato opens coastal research station (SunLive); Massey’s Prof Ralph Sims on energy-smart food.

Public Issues

1. Spending Cap Auckland’s Chye-Ching Huang has a NZ Herald op-ed against the proposed government spending cap.
2. Beneficiary Bashing Auckland’s Susan St John takes on columnist Karl du Fresne over beneficiary bashing in a Dominion Post op-ed.
3. Christchurch As It Was Canterbury is launching a mobile phone app to show Christchurch how it was (The Press).
4. Extras: Auckland’s Prof Warren Brookbanks on a rapist moving next door; Stuart Middleton on charter schools (and Canterbury’s Eric Crampton); Massey’s Bob Hargreaves on Auckland property prices; Auckland’s Ken Palmer on an Occupy trespass case.

Students

1. Hair Profile of a Palmie hairdresser seeking to get to WorldSkills.
2. Extras: success for BOPP fashion grad; top golf driver and volunteer from Otago Uni; Massey student doing gannet research; a Massey student’s wearable arts show; Auckland student on climate change; Otago’s Poly’s blind student graduate; Waikato cellist’s success.

Stakeholders

1. World Bank Massey is getting a World Bank contract extended by another $5m, to build on NZ-based tuition to offer Asia-based support. Impressive.
2. Extras: Waikato founding professor Theo Roy to get award (NZ Herald); TWOA’s Joe Hanita’s accountancy win is on p.3 here; Victoria involvement in Readers and Writers Week.

Teaching & Learning

1. Art Retreat Otago Poly is involved in a Waiheke Island art retreat – if you’re going to open in Auckland, there’s no need to go to Queen St!
2. Extras: Sri Lankan students on Canterbury summer camp; success of EIT’s Christine Wirihana.

1. Lincoln Buildings TV3 had a piece last night on Lincoln’s closed-off buildings.
2. Bond Problems Canterbury could be facing problems with its NZDX bonds (NZ Herald).
3. EER Excitement An Auckland Maori PTE got a good EER report but not a great one but still got a gushing story on RNZ and an even more gushing media release from Pita Sharples. Sheesh, they didn’t even get top marks!
4. Extras: Victoria’s marae gateway; buses to WITT need more passengers; EIT increasing arts and design staff.

Research & Innovation

1. Smoking in Cars People in Wainuiomata are more likely to smoke in cars with children than people in Karori according to Otago Uni’s George Thomson (NewstalkZB, Dom Post, NZN).
2. Energy-Smart Food Massey’s Prof Ralph Sims has just launched a report on for the UN on energy-smart food.
3. Extras: Auckland research on teenagers’ screen time; Massey pill for wild horses.

Public Issues

1. Accents Victoria’s Janet Holmes has an interesting column on accents.
2. DOC Open Letter 107 scientists, almost all from NZ universities, have written an open letter to Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson (39 from Massey). They argue that budget cuts to DOC should not go ahead (release, NZN, Dom Post, Dom Post, NewstalkZB).
3. Mining The government broke a promise on mining according to Otago Uni’s emeritus Prof Sir Alan Mark. Two visiting US academics at Waikato have also written a paper on mining.
4. Extras: Canterbury’s David Small on the Mana party; Otago Uni alcohol research cited; Massey’s Mike Joy on river quality; Auckland’s Scott Optican on a murder charge (not his!); Otago and Massey academics on smart food for babies; Laidlaw’s Mark McKeown on non-voters.

Students

1. SVA There’s a new president of the Canterbury Student Volunteer Army – I’m guessing he won’t want as busy a year as Sam Johnson.
2. Extras: top students to Canterbury; Canterbury triathlete; AUT grad’s abseil fall survival (Auckland Now): ad win for Media Design School students (plus some cool showreels from other students); NorthTec fashion show.

Stakeholders

1. Training Nice Competenz case study of training in a pie factory.
2. Extras: exhibition at NMIT gallery; Massey’s Roger Buckton conducting a choir; university-ICT links in Wellington.

Teaching & Learning

1. Extras: New UCOL Wairarapa music programme; Unitec congratulates student-chosen top teacher; NMIT’s new mechanical engineering course; Canterbury to offer teaching degree at WITT.

1. Canterbury Loss Up Canterbury’s projected loss for 2012 is up from $10m to $15m, but it drops to $9m once insurance comes in (presumably the earlier $10m figure also dropped after insurance).
2. Skill Shortages The ITF’s new CE, Mark Oldershaw, has made the news in week 1 – talking about skill shortages.
3. Extras: prosecution due to a workplace accident at Victoria (by a contractor); big Council investment in carpark to help MIT; a letter to the editor about night classes.

Research & Innovation

1. Fire! Canterbury’s Prof Charles Fleischmann has received a US award for fire engineering research. He’s researched furniture flammability, which I would have thought more of an Otago Uni specialisation…
2. Ant Cycles Victoria’s Meghan Cooling and Phil Lester have found out about the life cycles of Argentine ant colonies.
3. Extras: Waikato legal research centre focusing on Maori governance; Victoria’s Melanie Johnston-Hollitt helping with Square Kilometre Array software; Waikato solar car at the beehive; KiwiNet workshop.

Public Issues

1. Lucky Christchurch Canterbury’s adjunct Prof John Cookson is writing a five-part series on Christchurch in The Press.
2. Turkey Tails Otago Uni’s Nick Wilson comments on the impact of turkey tails in Samoa (don’t you love the variety of tertiary education!).
3. HIV Otago Uni’s Nigel Dickson has reported on late diagnosis of HIV (gaynz.com).
4. Rents Massey’s Prof Bob Hargreaves on rent and wages.
5. Extras: Massey symposium on nutrition and brain development in babies plus fish oil research by Prof Welma Stonehouse; Waikato’s Natalie Jackson on population trends; AUT’s Vernon Rive on climate change discussions.

Students

1. Fashion Whitecliffe’s fashion show looked pretty good. CPIT’s fashion show is on Saturday.
2. NZ’s Top…gymnast is at AUT.
3. Extras: one of Unitec’s TV ad stars is part of the grad exhibition; a bit on Auckland student activism in this piece on Occupy; ambulance officer student; NorthTec students’ visual arts display; UCOL acting student off to Unitec.

Stakeholders

1. Oxford Donation A Canterbury scholarship to study at Christ Church, Oxford, has been boosted by a Trust’s donation.
2. Extras: Intergen’s Otago Poly/Uni links; Massey’s Terry Stewart being a hillbilly; winner of Massey Maori book awards;

Teaching & Learning

1. Sustainable Course This release is a bit of a promo but it’s an interesting one about an Otago Poly sustainable practice course and how its students have done.
2. Pasifika Trades Training…is being offered at CPIT to help rebuild Christchurch (release).

1. Ministers Steven Joyce is picked to get Economic Development (and keep tertiary education?) while Hekia Parata is tipped for education.
2. Waiariki Settlement Waiariki has been ordered to pay a dismissed head of their nursing school $10,500 compensation and ex-CE Pim Borren has been ordered to pay $6,000 for obstructing the dispute resolution process (I imagine Waiariki will pick upon the bill for that). As I predicted in an earlier post, reinstatement was not ordered. It’s probably a reasonable outcome all around.
3. Tough 2012 Otago Uni reckons it will have a tough year in 2012 and won’t make a 3% TEC target for its surplus. I will believe it when I see it.
4. Managers are Good An Otago Uni academic (and former DVC) responds to concerns about an excessive number of managers.
5. New Gallery A new gallery at NorthTec has been welcomed.
6. Massey International Massey has launched a new internationalisation strategy.
7. Extras: Otago Uni Chancellor reappointed; discussion of Massey employment law case; story on WelTec-Whitireia Council merger; Lincoln’s Telford pre-enrolments at a record high; aviation Gateway programme supported by ATTTO.

Research & Innovation

1. Defence Commercialisation the Defence Force is working with Auckland’s UniServices to commercialise defence force IP. I wonder if there will be any protests about that down the track.
2. Bad Review Auckland’s Nick Perry gets a bad review of his latest book – “pretentious prolixity” is one of the reviewer’s comments, but it’s a rather pretentious turn of phrase in itself.
3. Short Boys Auckland’s John Peek found that some fertility drugs seem to lead to shorter boys (but not girls).
4. Extras: Waikato’s Nigel Calder launches maths book (SunLive); Auckland’s Janet Fanslow on family violence; UCOL’s Kane Parsons doing a Victor Borge homage; Massey’s Pasifika spirituality conference; Auckland’s Richard Milne on a trans-Tasman medication study; Waikato’s new coastal research centre; emeritus Prof Lee Erasmus’ work on a 1961 plane crash (Canterbury).

Public Issues

1. Post-Election Auckland’s James Young on capital gains tax and Prof Raymond Miller on the low turnout (and again) and on selling asset sales and on quake handling; Victoria’s Jon Johansson on Key’s mistakes and Auckland’s Joe Atkinson too; ex-Otago Uni hostel warden wins Dunedin North (profile of him); Otago Uni’s Bryce Edwards assesses the media coverage and comments on Labour’s Clare Curran; Victoria’s Stephen Leven on the Wellington vote; Auckland’s Jennifer Lees-Marshment on Don Brash; Auckland’s Jian Yang gets in off the list.
2. Pre-Election Waikato’s Alan Simpson on a possible low turnout; Phil Goff finished election eve chatting to Auckland Uni cleaners; Bryce Edwards on text polls, but what was more amazing was the man in the article who thought text polls were one person, one vote; Otago Uni election show; Victoria’s Maria Bargh on the Mana and Maori parties’ poor communication; Victoria’s Kate McMillan on voting as a permanent resident.
3. Recidivism Victoria’s Devon Polaschek gave lecture on reducing recidivism among violent offenders.
4. The World Etc Long interview here with Auckland’s Prof Klaus Bosselmann about globalism, values and all sorts of other things. Victoria’s Prof Warwick Murray is also giving an inaugural lecture on globalism and the GFC. Victoria’s Ralph Chapman on climate change.
5. Maori Burial Massey’s Prof Paul Spoonley and Avril Bell comment on a court case over Maori burial practices.
6. Shaky Buildings Auckland’s Jason Ingham gave some good advice to Dunedin property owners about quake strengthening while Otago Uni is starting work on strengthening; comment on Prof Stefano Pampanin’s (Canterbury) prescription for Auckland’s quake-prone buildings;
7. Prostate Cancer Otago Uni’s Brian Cos opposes a prostate cancer screening programme, and the work of colleague Elspeth Gold on an alternative test.
8. Extras: Otago Uni academics on euthanasia (and an Auckland one); comment on porn research (and another story); Canterbury and Lincoln academics in on liquefaction research; Waiariki’s Debbie Thyne on artist Charles Blomfield; Waikato’s Natalie Jackson on the end of population growth in most of NZ; Canterbury’s Greg Newbold on police informants; Otago Uni’s Phil Bishop on the bad outlook for frogs (and how Kermit is partly to blame – I kid you not!); Otago’s Stephen Wing on shark tourism; Auckland’s Prof Miriam Meyerhoff on Obama’s grammar; Otago Uni’s Penny Field and Robin Gauld on the food industry’s power; Auckland’s Cameron Grant on immunisation.

Students

1. 20 Years NZCER has released a report on 20-year olds in a long-term longitudinal study.
2. Maori Opportunities BCITO’s Ruma Karaitiana and others at the CATE conference on opportunities for Maori.
3. Students’ Tough Time Two Otago Uni PhD students are seeking a scholarship extension after their clinical supervisor was convicted on fraud-related charges and had his registration suspended.
4. Streaming Graduations Massey streamed its latest graduations live and will leave them up on the Internet for friends and relatives far away to check it out. Good idea.
5. Top Hairdresser A Dunedin trainee was the Hairdressing ITO’s top apprentice.
6. Extras: Massey grad in PNG plane crash; new Massey flying grads (Manawatu Standard); Victoria student’s Christchurch design concept to happen; NMIT student in speed dating social services event; Aoraki student’s film; Massey PhD thesis on Maori and Western spirituality; Waikato student selling cookies; UCOL Chekhov production, chef grads off to Oman and glass awards; Otago’s Robert Schadewinkel checking out a 1080 drop’s impact; Otago Uni doctoral scholarships up.

Stakeholders

1. Chess Anyone? Canterbury students have helped to get a new outdoor chess set up and running (release, RNZ).
2. Extras: Otago Uni-Pasifika partnership and East Otago links; Otago Poly house sold for charity.

1. Rally Here’s some coverage of the TEU-NZUSA rally last week.
2. Ashburton Challenges…in literacy provision, that is.
3. Extras: Labour’s
   David Cunliffe mentions defence college at Massey and Carol Beaumont on a skills strategy; end of CPIT-TEU dispute; NorthTec has naming rights for a Whangarei building; Otago Uni alcohol ban continues and doctoral scholarships go up; NZUSA on minor parties; Waikato student director on National’s polices; Stuart Middleton on party policies.

Research & Innovation

1. New Centre Waikato has a new Centre for Environmental, Resources and Energy Law.
2. Extras: Victoria sludge recycling scheme for Palmie; accolades for Waikato Maori tattoo book; ex-Waikato’s John McCraw writes river book (Waikato Times); Waikato’s Vic Arcus looking at old bacteria.

Public Issues

1. Election AUT’s Ella Henry will be on Maori TV on election night; Victoria’s Maria Bargh on the Maori seats and the Maori party; Auckland’s Jennifer Lees-Marshment thinks we don’t have a healthy democracy because half of people don’t completely identify with a party (that’s crazy, as it really shows that people aren’t separated on tribal political lines!); profile of Victoria grad (and my very good friend) Greens candidate James Shaw (vote for him in Wellington); Auckland’s Prof Ray Miller on John Key; Victoria’s Steven price on the teapot tapes; Auckland’s Joe Atkinson on last night’s debate; Otago Uni’s Bryce Edwards on bans on election day media coverage (which I really must look into);
2. Solar Eclipse There’s a partial solar eclipse on Friday, according to Canterbury’s Alan Gilmore.
3. Rivers Here’s a good column by top farming journalist Jon Morgan on Mike Joy’s (of Massey) river quality proposals.
4. Extras: Roger Sutton speaks at Canterbury lecture; Victoria’s Jon Johansson campaigns for MMP (he did it on debate analysis last night too).

Students

1. Top Hairdressers The Hairdressing ITO had its annual awards on Sunday night.
2. Voting Tool The Massey On the Fence voting tool (release).
3. Food Bank Student fines at Massey are filling up food banks.
4. Bamboo Bike AUT student designs bamboo bike.
5. Fashion Show The ODT has Otago Poly’s grad show for fashion students.
6. Extras: mentored students hoping to get to uni; EIT scholarship winner gets exhibition; Auckland software experts in NYC; AUT fashion grad interview (with pics); tracking female architecture grads; WITT student art show.

Stakeholders

1. Periodic Table I’ve been following the knitted periodic table for some time and it will be unveiled this week at Waikato for a Chemistry conference. Fabulous.
2. Scholarship Money MFAT has funded 25 geothermal energy scholarships at Auckland;
3. Pork Schnitzel …with Otago Poly’s Daniel Pfyl.
4. Extras: trial of Victoria’s Yvonne van Roy and she was found guilty; AUT sports conference; upcoming DEANZ conference; Corrections picks up te reo Māori award; Auckland and Vic professors on Hastings architecture.

Teaching & Learning

1. Bread Aoraki students got a master class in breadmaking.
2. Extras: successful NMIT students; robot dragon.

1. MIT Review It is review season and MIT has the latest one. TEU has released details of 28 potential job losses in a rightsizing review.
2. Labour Policy Labour released training policy.
3. Whitireia Settlement Whitireia has reached a new employment agreement with TEU members.
4. Commercialisation Auckland has an interesting new Masters in Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship. It almost interests me.
5. Extras: Open Poly won a Lower Hutt business award; Otago Uni building gets Historic Places Trust recognition.

Research & Innovation

1. Weta Head Size Wetas with bigger heads have more mating success, but Massey’s Cilla Wehi is trying to find out if there’s a downside to having a big head, but has not found one yet (NZ Herald, Stuff). There’s a good weta video too.
2. Royal Society Honours More on Otago Uni’s Christine Winterbourn, while Massey recognises Shaun Cooper’s win and Victoria recognises Prof Colleen Ward’s and Prof Rod Downey’s wins. Auckland Joanna Wojnar won a writing award.
3. Extras: AUT’s Prof Paul Moon on his latest book; Auckland’s Prof Annie Goldson wins best director award; Massey’s Prof Bernhard Breier on Omega-3.

Public Issues

1. The Tapes AUT’s Greg Treadwell calls the Police requests for info state bullying but blames it all on John Key. Auckland’s Gehan Gunasekara says there was nothing illegal about the taping. Canterbury’s Ursula Cheer on the legal issues around the search warrants.
2. David Bain Otago Uni’s Kevin Dawkins on David Bain’s compensation bid.
3. Privatisation Auckland’s Prof John Farrar put some political views about privatisation in a poorly structured media release. Really, I think some people should stick to bugging their Facebook friends with their political views rather than putting out media releases.
4. Election Otago Uni’s Bryce Edwards and Auckland’s Barry Gustafson on dirty tricks.
5. Language Survival Victoria is bringing back an alumnus from the 1950s to speak at a languages forum.
6. Obama Otago Uni’s Robert Patman thinks a new Marine base in Australia might help (or complicate) NZ-US (or NZ-China) relations.
7. Extras: Auckland’s Jane Kelsey on free trade and Ken Palmer on local body election advertising limits; Massey’s David Raubenheimer on how animals obesity can be used to understand humans’ obesity; Canterbury’s Jarrod Gilbert on gang expansion.

Students

1. Student Marketing AUT is trying to attract Manukau students to new postgrad courses, while Massey is trying to fill a new Bachelor of Natural Sciences.
2. Extras: student off to NY entrepreneurship competition; NorthTec students’ RWC experience; Massey student standing for election; first-time student voters.

Stakeholders

1. Extras: Wintec honours a business partner; TWOA manager picks up chair role at dairy farm business; Massey getting penguins ready for release.

1. Money Laundering Tow foreign students had their identities used by a fraudster to launder money.
2. CPIT Pay A CPIT pay offer is going to staff for a vote. Looks like it might pass.
3. Aoraki Cuts The TEU says staff are gutted about course cuts at Aoraki. There’s also a story on the Ashburton situation and a brief story on Aoraki cuts
4. UCOL Whanganui UCOL CE Paul McElroy reassured Whanganui students that there was no need to fear the arts courses review.
5. Prison Training Christchurch prison trade training (The Press, RNZ).
6. Extras: profile of NorthTec’s new gallery; EIT’s Trades and Technology Training Centre won a local architecture award; hail caused a sun sail to collapse at Waiariki.

Research & Innovation

1. Snapper Spawning Auckland’s Carina Sim-Smith has found out where snapper spawn.
2. Extras: Auckland’s Janet Fanslow on intimate partner violence; history conference at Waikato; Massey’s Pasture Meter; Massey’s Sarb Johal on the impact on public trust in institutions of the Rena grounding.

Public Issues

1. Election Waikato’s Prof Mark Harcourt on the minimum wage;
2. MMP Otago Uni’s Bryce Edwards has an op-ed on MMP, as does Unitec’s Keith Rankin, while NZUSA supports MMP.
3. Speak Out Auckland’s Prof Glenn McGregor urges scientists to speak out on issues like climate change.
4. Science and Poetry Massey’s Brian Walpert on science and poetry.
5. Extras: Auckland’s Jane Kelsey has an op-ed on trade talks; David Farrar criticises Auckland’s Rhema Vaithianathan over non-disclosure; Massey’s Alan Palmer on Manawatu Gorge slips; Massey’s Eric Neumann on pork trade.

Students

1. Mississippi Film Win Media Design School students and staff won an award at the Mississippi International Film festival.
2. Top Chefs Ten trainee chefs have been named as finalists in a national competition – they come from NorthTec, AUT, BOPP, HSI, SkyCity, WelTec, CPIT and Otago Poly.
3. Extras: WITT student named top retailer; Wintec student’s art exhibition; TWOA weaving exhibition; SIT research project display; a quasi-advertorial on a Massey student; Otago Uni student selling cookies; student looking at aviation safety; BOPP’s business students’ SPCA fundraiser; Otago Uni student’s op-ed on keeping energy assets; challenge of getting people into the building industry.

Stakeholders

1. Entrepreneurship Massey is helping to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week with a business case competition and an Intrapreneurship Summit.
2. Extras: Massey lecturer gets US military honour; Victoria recognises Hunter Fellows; great review of Otago Uni’s ScienceTeller Festival; Massey hosting business networking.

Teaching & Learning

1. Taranaki…Adult Learners’ Awards winners.
2. Extras: trades teaching app by Otago Poly.

1. Whanganui Fears Misplaced? A UCOL Whanganui grad and student (and couple) are worried that arts provision in the town will be downgraded by UCOL, but UCOL’s Whanganui head says there’s nothing to worry about.
2. Aoraki Cuts Decided Aoraki Poly will cut 11 courses and 11 positions next year across Dunedin (4), Oamaru (1), Ashburton (1), Christchurch (3) and Timaru (2) (ODT).
3. Parity of Esteem…is Stuart Middleton’s latest topic.
4. Extras: profile of Koru Institute of Training and Education; Wairarapa service academy; consent issues are holding up a Canterbury archive project.

Research & Innovation

1. Lost Chimneys Canterbury’s Prof Geoff Rice has written a book about Christchurch’s lost chimneys.
2. Growth Meeting The National Research Centre for Growth and Development is holding its annual symposium in Dunedin.
3. Spirituality Otago Uni’s Richard Egan et al have explored what spirituality means in healthcare.
4. Extras: postgrad conference at Waikato; Auckland’s Quentin Atkinson on primate evolution; Canterbury’s Mark Quigley received a communication award for quake comment.

Public Issues

1. Election Canterbury’s Ursula Cheer on the Banks-Key tape;
2. Zac Guilford Massey’s Steve Stannard proposes a fairly dopey link between Zac Guilford’s professional rugby career, alcohol sponsorship and his excessive drinking. He was hardly the only 22 year old to get far too drunk last weekend, but he was the only one famous enough to make the front page.
3. Horses Waikato’s Stuart Locke has a prescription to improve the equine industry.
4. Polynesian Union Auckland’s Steven Ratuva on a proposed Polynesian Union.
5. Extras: Victoria’s Stephen Burnell on employment prospects; Otago Uni’s Robert Patman on Syria; Otago Uni academic on pavlova; Auckland’s Kathleen Callaghan to appear at the Pike River inquiry; Otago Uni’s Andrew Geddis cited in the NZ Herald; CTU follows up on Massey’s nursing burnout research; Massey’s Micah Jensen looking after penguins; Otago Uni’s Robin Gauld on a new DHB CE; Auckland’s Rhema Vaithianathan on the “holiday highway”; Victoria’s Jonathan Boston on a public sector CE investigation.

Students

1. Google Earth Dunedin I like that Otago Poly has given its architectural draughting students a project to help fill the gap in Dunedin 3D buildings on Google Earth.
2. Tourism Awards ATTTO’s A+ awards were announced last week for their top trainees and Modern Apprentices (TIANZ, Mountain Scene).
3. Great Pathway A student has gone from a WINZ-funded YMCA course to Toi Whakaari/NZ Drama School – great story.
4. Cool Chair A Unitec student has created a pretty cool-looking chair that has won an award.
   
5. Op Shop Fashion Waiariki students created some pretty cool op shop fashion.
6. Boy Genius A high performing 17 year old is the feature of a recent documentary and started tertiary education at Te Wananga o Raukawa.
7. Extras: NMIT student on the ghost chips ad; students checking on water quality; end of year music show at UCOL; Whitireia to launch 2011 edition of literary journal;
   new app wins health and safety award at Otago Poly; Xterra athlete at Waikato; Dunedin student fires.

Stakeholders

1. Extras: crazy fun kids race at BOPP (SunLive); market day at NorthTec.