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Vacancy at UNZ - Director Education

31 October 2024 | news

Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara...

New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee Financial Statements 2024

29 October 2024 | publications

These are the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2024.

2025 Woolf Fisher Scholarship recipients announced

16 October 2024 | media

Four exceptional New Zealand graduates have been awarded prestigious Woolf Fisher Scholarships to pursue their doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge.Sophia Bebelman, Petra Fisher, Alexan...

Student mobility and credit transfer

04 October 2024 | publications

A June 2021 paper by Universities NZ examines student mobility and credit transfer patterns across New Zealand's tertiary education sector....

Kiwi Music Scholarship: Launching classical stars onto the global stage

02 October 2024 | media

Aotearoa boasts an exceptional array of young, up-and-coming classical musicians, and thanks to the annual Kiwi Music Scholarship, provided by the Kiwi Music Trust, five have been awarded $15,000 ...

UNZ Newsletter - August 2024

12 September 2024 | news

Read the August 2024 newsletter here. Subscribe to UNZ's newsletter here

UNZ Submission - Universities Advisory Group Phase 2

30 August 2024 | submissions

Universities New Zealand - Te Pōkai Tara have prepared the following submission for Phase Two of the consultation with the University Advisory Group (UAG)....

Thinking about ‘The Code’ Five Years On

30 August 2024 | news

Chris WhelanChief ExecutiveUniversities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara In 2019, a tragic event that saw the death of a student go undiscovered for a period of weeks prompted an urgent call by Governm...

Reaffirming key principles

30 August 2024 | news

Professor Cheryl de la ReyTumu Whakarae | Vice-ChancellorUniversity of CanterburyChair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee An important focus of the New Zealand Vice Chancellors’ Commit...

UNZ and Paraguay’s BECAL establish a joint scholarship programme

28 August 2024 | news

  Universities New Zealand - Te Pōkai Tara (UNZ) and Coordination of the National Scholarship Program Carlos Antonio López (BECAL) of Paraguay have signed a collaborative agreement to establish a ...

A welcome financial boost for aspiring young journalists

20 August 2024 | media

Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara is pleased to announce that Elsie Williams and Phoebe Utteridge, both from the University of Canterbury, are the inaugural winners of the Brian Gaynor Sch...

Horizon Europe Webinar

05 August 2024 | news

On July 31, UNZ and Universities Canada hosted a webinar to promote joint applications for Horizon Europe Cluster 5. ...

Harvard Horizons for Top Kiwi Scholars

31 July 2024 | news

Harvard Horizons for Top Kiwi Scholars...

Boosting International Academic Collaboration

17 July 2024 | news

New Zealand Universities and Ecuador’s USFQ Sign MOU to Boost International Academic Collaboration...

Moving to a new model of academic audit in New Zealand’s university sector

26 June 2024 | media

From Professor Cheryl de la Rey, Chair of Universities New Zealand. The Education and Training Act 2020 identifies the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (NZVCC) as the entity primarily respo...

Claude McCarthy Fellowship opens doors to further collaboration

18 June 2024 | news

Meriam van Os (second from right). Photo credit: Peter Mundy, and Australasian Centre for Ancient DNA....

Breeding better raspberries – US-NZ joint venture answers the call

17 June 2024 | news

2024 commemorates 150 years of formal scientific partnership between New Zealand and the United States. Throughout the year, Universities New Zealand-Te Pōkai Tara will highlight brilliant example...

Ethel Benjamin Scholarship winners Harvard bound

13 June 2024 | media

The New Zealand Law Foundation along with Universities New Zealand Te Pōkai Tara are delighted to announce that Madeleine (Maddy) Nash and Hannah Yang have been awarded the 2024 New Zealand Law Fo...

2024 William Georgetti Scholarship winners announced

06 June 2024 | media

Brilliant minds tackle world challenges – William Georgetti Scholarship winners announced...

How New Zealand universities fare in the latest QS rankings

06 June 2024 | news

The 2025 edition of the QS World University Rankings has highlighted both strengths and areas for improvement for New Zealand’s universities on the global stage....

Submission from UNZ - Science System Review

06 June 2024 | publications

Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara have prepared the following submission for Phase One of the Science System review (SSR). SSR Submission - Universities New Zealand - Te Pōkai Tara 

Submission from UNZ - University Advisory Group

06 June 2024 | publications

Universities New Zealand - Te Pōkai Tara have prepared the following submission for Phase One of the consultation with the University Advisory Group (UAG)....

UNZ Newsletter - June 2024

04 June 2024 | news

Read the June 2024 newsletter here. Subscribe to UNZ's newsletter here

The colour of the grass on the other side

04 June 2024 | news

Chris WhelanChief ExecutiveUniversities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara A particularly interesting part of my job is getting to look at university systems around the world. In addition to reading a lo...

Universities at a Crossroads

04 June 2024 | news

Professor Cheryl de la ReyTumu Whakarae | Vice-ChancellorUniversity of CanterburyChair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee As I worked with the Vice Chancellors on our submission to the...