Education / December 2015
January 2016 | November 2015-
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2015 University Champs Results + Trans Tasman Team
- Victoria University Rowing Club
- VICTORIA UNIVERSITY ROWING CLUB RESULTS SUMMARY Recently the Victoria University Rowing Club travelled to Whanganui to compete in the New Zealand University Championship Regatta on the Whanganui River.
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VURC Christmas Newsletter 2015
- Victoria University Rowing Club
- Newsletter Find attached our recent newsletter. Merry Christmas everyone and hope you have a happy and safe holiday
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2015 University Champs Results + Trans Tasman Team
- Victoria University Rowing Club
- VICTORIA UNIVERSITY ROWING CLUB RESULTS SUMMARY Recently the Victoria University Rowing Club travelled to Whanganui to compete in the New Zealand University Championship Regatta on the Whanganui River.
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2015/2016 message
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- Accepted from Adam Art Gallery feed
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Victoria’s new degree to fill gap across multiple industries
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The first group of students from Victoria University of Wellington has successfully completed the country’s only university course in actuarial science.
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Rhodes scholars are leaders for the world’s future
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington Chemistry student Kimberley Savill has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship to carry out post graduate study at the prestigious University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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Collection of poetic biographies wins the Biggs Family Prize
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A collection of five poetic biographies of famous and lesser-known historical New Zealand women has been awarded the 2015 Biggs Family Prize for Poetry.
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First Ruapehu Writers Festival on sale
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Tickets are available for the first Ruapehu Writers Festival, to be held at Ōhakune from 17-20 March 2016.
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Victoria University's Confucius Institute recognised as one of the best in the world
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Chinese Vice Premier Madame Liu Yandong has awarded the Confucius Institute at Victoria University of Wellington (CI VUW) the accolade of 'Outstanding Confucius Institute' of 2015.
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Australian government grant to study the impact of digital technology
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington researcher has won a prestigious grant from the Australian government to study the impact of digital technology on relationships between organisations and their customers.
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Graduation address by Peter Biggs
- Victoria University of Wellington
- This following is the graduation address given by Peter Biggs given to Victoria graduands, friends and family at Civic Square in December 2015.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Singing and student wellbeing researched
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A research project by Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) has been selected by the government’s Teaching and Learning Research Initiative as one of six projects to fund in its 2015 round.
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Junior Prize Giving – Term 4 2015
- Wellington High School
- Accepted from WHS news
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Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sisters are doing it for themselves
- Victoria University of Wellington
- What started as a blog to share ideas with fellow young academics turned into much more for three of Victoria University of Wellington’s latest graduates.
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Award winning Victoria designed app
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Māori language learning app, released by Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Kura Māori, based in the Faculty of Education, has won the tertiary sector award at Ngā Tohu Reo Māori 2015 (Māori Language Awards).
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Global and local writing showcased in Turbine
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New work from emerging and established writers, including the latest graduates of Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), features in online literary magazine Turbine.
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Memoir of music’s outlaw heroes wins Adam Prize
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A coming of age music memoir about the 1970s and the outlaw heroes of the Wellington and New Zealand rock scene has been awarded the 2015 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington.
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From frying pans to finishing exams
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington graduand Stella Robertson-Hale had more to juggle than most students over the last few weeks of study for her Bachelor of Commerce degree—the 21-year-old was filming for the television cooking competition My Kitchen Rules New Zealand while also preparing for her final exams.
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Timely story of war wins David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A gripping story of the effects of modern day warfare on both civilians and combatants has been awarded the 2015 David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting.
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Significant endowment for Victoria research institute
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University’s Institute for Governance and Policy Studies (IGPS) has received a generous $7 million endowment from the Gama Foundation to support its ongoing work leading thinking and debate around issues at the heart of the democratic process.
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Inspiring overseas visit
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Carwyn Jones has returned to Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Law inspired by the time he’s spent overseas learning about indigenous legal education.
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Victoria students end the year on a high note
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Nearly 1200 students will this week mark the end of 2015, and years of hard study, by graduating from Victoria University of Wellington.
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Award music to Victoria’s ears
- Victoria University of Wellington
- An album recorded at Victoria University of Wellington by a pianist with an Honorary Doctorate from Victoria, won a major accolade at the recent Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.
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Lecture highlights New Zealand’s changing political landscape
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Six leading experts will come together at Victoria University of Wellington to discuss the impact immigration and emigration are having on electoral politics.
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Victoria University Chancellor welcomes high-performing Council
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington’s Chancellor, Sir Neville Jordan, says members of Victoria’s new 12-person Council form a “high-performing team for a high-performing university”.
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Self-controlled connectivity good for workplace?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Research by a Victoria University graduand is already gaining attention from Google, Microsoft and Australian academics, ahead of her receiving her PhD degree at her upcoming graduation ceremony.
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Putting cybersecurity centre stage
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington is kick-starting initiatives for championing cybersecurity in New Zealand with an industry briefing this week featuring a guest appearance from a world-renowned cyber-crime expert.
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Māori and Sāmoan language teaching resources aired
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Kohanga reo, Sāmoan kindergartens and schools around the country have access to a rich online audio teaching resource, thanks to restoration work by staff of the Victoria University of Wellington’s Language Learning Centre (LLC).
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Footage captures kiwi destroying robin nest
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A kiwi destroying a robin nest and causing the death of the chicks in it has been caught on camera by a Victoria University of Wellington researcher.
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Ferrier’s focus on the future
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Three different projects focused on solving a variety of problems, which are being led by scientists at Victoria University of Wellington’s Ferrier Research Institute, have been awarded a total of $3 million in Government funding to develop their commercial potential.
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Milestone for Victoria’s Pasifika students
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Four students from Victoria University of Wellington had the honour of being the amongst the first Pasifika students to graduate from the Victoria International Leadership Programme (VILP) at a special awards ceremony yesterday.
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Exploring the brain’s role in mystical experiences
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New research suggests that suppression of the brain’s inhibitory functions can result in openness to mystical experiences.
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Big names confirmed for Victoria’s first Pacific climate change conference
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria’s first Pacific Climate Change Conference has attracted a top line-up of international speakers.
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Exploring the changing world of literary translation
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Nearly three weeks ahead of graduation and Victoria University of Wellington’s Sally-Ann Spencer has already won an international prize and secured a publishing deal for her PhD research.
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