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UNZ newsletter November 2023

15 November 2023 | news

Read the latest UNZ newsletter here. Click here to subscribe.

To lift productivity and innovation, invest in postgraduate studies

14 November 2023 | news

Chris WhelanChief ExecutiveUniversities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara Earlier in the year Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara contributed to an Education and Workforce Parliamentary Select Comm...

From the Chair: Do we need a Higher Education Funding Review?

14 November 2023 | news

By Professor Cheryl de la Rey Tumu Whakarae | Vice-Chancellor University of Canterbury Chair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee As part of Budget 2023, the previous Government annou...

2024 Rhodes Scholars announced

08 November 2023 | news

Exceptional young leaders in public policy and visual art awarded Rhodes Scholarships Established in 1903, the Rhodes Scholarship is the oldest international scholarship programme, bringing outst...

New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee Financial Statements 2023

31 October 2023 | publications

These are the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2023.

Kiwi Music Scholarship winners - 2023

17 October 2023 | media

  The sound of success – four young Kiwi musicians share their talents with the world Four exceptional young classical musicians have been awarded a 2023 Kiwi Music Scholarship to help them pursue...

Exceptional minds, exceptional futures - 2024 Woolf Fisher Scholarship recipients announced

11 October 2023 | media

Fundamental questions of memory, existence, and reality feature in the research interests of this year’s Woolf Fisher Scholarship recipients....

Submission on Covid-19 lessons - Royal Commission of Inquiry

21 September 2023 | submissions

Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara has sent a submission to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19 lessons.  Read the submission here  

Submission on the 2024 Annual Maximum Fee Movement Notice of 2023

08 August 2023 | submissions

Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara has sent a submission in response to the Tertiary Education (2024 Fee Regulation Settings) Notice of 2023....

UNZ newsletter July 2023

26 July 2023 | news

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From the Chair: The higher education funding review

17 July 2023 | news

By Professor Cheryl de la Rey Tumu Whakarae | Vice-ChancellorUniversity of Canterbury Chair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee   Tēnā koutou katoa, I began the role of Chair of Univers...

Graduates and research - the real value of universities

17 July 2023 | news

By Chris WhelanChief ExecutiveUniversities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara NZIER have released their latest assessment of the economic value of universities, confirming the crucial contribution univer...

Government offers financial boost to struggling universities

28 June 2023 | news

Universities New Zealand today welcomed the Government announcement of $128 million of additional investment for the tertiary education sector....

New Zealand universities shine in latest international rankings

28 June 2023 | news

All eight New Zealand universities have gone up in the rankings in the 2024 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings and all are in the top 500 universities in the world....

Research vital to Aotearoa New Zealand supported by the William Georgetti scholarship

13 June 2023 | media

From theoretical physics to addressing fundamental issues in the criminal justice system, the nine recipients of the William Georgetti Scholarships for 2023 represent some of the finest student...

Ethel Benjamin Scholarship winner to attend Yale Law School

13 June 2023 | news

Universities New Zealand Te Pōkai Tara is delighted to announce that Auckland lawyer Jessica Fenton has been awarded the 2023 New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholarship....

Supporting a young musician's first steps on the world stage

01 June 2023 | media

An outstanding young Aotearoa New Zealand soprano has been awarded a 2023 Kia Ora Foundation Patricia Pratt Scholarship to support her study towards a Master of Music in Performance Classical Voice...

UNZ launches new Introductory TR-PSR training module

23 May 2023 | news

Universities New Zealand (UNZ) is pleased to announce the launch of a new online training series aimed at raising awareness about risks relating to foreign interference and export controls...

More pressure for universities in Budget 2023

18 May 2023 | media

Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara appreciates the 5% increase in funding for teaching (Delivery and Quality - DQ funding) as outlined in today’s Budget....

Critic and Conscience of Society Award winner holds those in power to account

12 May 2023 | news

For the vital role he has played in contributing analysis and academic expertise to areas of public interest, the winner of the 2023 Critic and Conscience of Society Award is Dr Dean Knight,...

Postgraduate scholarship and stipend support in the university sector

19 April 2023 | submissions

This submission to Parliament's Education and Workforce Select Committee discusses the scholarship and stipend support available to postgraduate students at each of New Zealand’s eight universities...

Universities launch ‘Piki Ake’

30 March 2023 | news

A transition programme designed to change the trajectory for upcoming Māori researchers...

Robertson Scholar an extraordinary all-rounder

21 March 2023 | media

‘An extraordinary all-rounder who goes above and beyond what is usually expected of a high school student’. That is how one of his teachers describes Hunter Haynes, 18, winner of this year’s...

Combine travel and study with the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters

14 February 2023 | news

Sarah Miller graduated with a master’s degree in November 2022 from the University of Glasgow, however Dublin City University and Charles University in Prague were also degree-awarding bodies on...