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UNZ Submissions - Universities Advisory Group

17 December 2024 | submissions

Throughout 2024, Universities New Zealand - Te Pōkai Tara have prepared submissions to the University Advisory Group (UAG). The UAG was established at the start of the year to provide government...

Statement on cuts to Marsden Funds for Humanities and Social Sciences

04 December 2024 | news

Today's announcement from Government disbanding the humanities and social sciences panels from the Marsden Fund is very concerning. Whilst investment in STEM disciplines is important for shorter...

December Erasmus+ Regional Information Sessions

03 December 2024 | news

Sign up NOW for the Erasmus+ Regional Information Sessions for the Pacific, to find out more about the recently launched 2025 Erasmus+ Call for proposals! Expert speakers from the European Commiss...

Is technology the end of campus-based learning?

18 November 2024 | news

Chris WhelanChief ExecutiveUniversities New Zealand - Te Pokāi Tara Since its formation in March, the Universities Advisory Group has posed a number of questions to the sector, some of which have ...

UNZ Newsletter - November 2024

18 November 2024 | news

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

Announcing the inaugural winners of the ACC Scholarship

18 November 2024 | media

MEDIA RELEASE | 18 November 2024...

Rhodes Scholars Announced 2025

13 November 2024 | media

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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

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 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)....

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...