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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)....
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...
UNZ Newsletter - June 2024
04 June 2024 | news
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Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara responds to Budget 2024
31 May 2024 | media
Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara welcomes the 2.5% increase to DQ7+ (Delivery + Quality) funding, and the proposed 6% increase to the Annual Maximum Fee Movement, as outlined today in...
Century-old eruption mystery solved by US and NZ scientists
28 May 2024 | news
The second in a series of articles to commemorate 150 years of formal scientific partnership between New Zealand and the United States. ...
Times Higher Education (THE) Campus Live - September 26-27, 2024
24 May 2024 | media
THE is excited to be running their fourth edition of THE Campus Live ANZ, the region's leading opportunity for administrative and academic higher education leaders to come together with industry a...
World-leading US-NZ research to combat the threat of forest wildfires
15 May 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...
Critic and Conscience Award Winner 2024
10 May 2024 | news
2024 Critic and Conscience of Society Award winner speaks truth to power...
UNZ Newsletter April 2024
18 April 2024 | news
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From the Chair: Navigating the future - Challenges and opportunities for our universities
17 April 2024 | news
Professor Cheryl de la Rey Tumu Whakarae | Vice-Chancellor University of Canterbury Chair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee After much anticipation, the two advisory groups that have ...
Cut, cut, cut - the pressures on our university research system
16 April 2024 | news
Chris WhelanChief ExecutiveUniversities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara One of the best-known scenes from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail is Arthur’s fight against the Black Knight. As limbs...
UNZ welcomes Government’s plans to address university and science system challenges
27 March 2024 | media
Media Release - 27 March, 2024...
Challenging, engaging, rewarding: Semester One at Yale Law School
27 February 2024 | news
2023 Ethel Benjamin Scholarship winner Jessica Fenton on her first semester at Yale Law School...
Celebrating 150 years of scientific partnership with the United States
26 February 2024 | news
This year, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University and the Chatham Islands Museum, with support from Universities New Zealand Te Pōkai Tara (UNZ), will celebrate the 150-year anniversary of...
UNZ newsletter December 2023
15 December 2023 | news
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From the Chair: Looking back, looking forward
14 December 2023 | news
Professor Cheryl de la Rey Tumu Whakarae | Vice-Chancellor University of Canterbury Chair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee December is typically a time of excitement and anticipati...
Time passes
14 December 2023 | news
Chris WhelanChief ExecutiveUniversities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara It was exactly ten years ago that I started at Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara. In the ensuing decade I’ve lost some ha...
Briefing to the incoming Minister for Tertiary Education and Skills November 2023
29 November 2023 | news
Read the Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara November 2023 Briefing to the Incoming Minister for Tertiary Education and Skills, the Hon Penny Simmonds....
Briefing to the incoming Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology November 2023
29 November 2023 | news
Read the Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara November 2023 Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology, the Hon Judith Collins....
Briefing to the incoming Minister of Health November 2023
29 November 2023 | news
Read the Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara November 2023 Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Health, the Hon Shane Reti.
Life at Oxford with help from a Kidson Scholarship
27 November 2023 | news
The Edward and Isabel Kidson Scholarship has helped make the University of Oxford a second home for PhD student Ford Wagner. ...
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