Education / October 2021
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Three composer residencies at the New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī announced for 2022
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī are offering three new composer residencies thanks to funding from Creative NZ.
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The Wrap Up (Term 4, Weeks 1 & 2)
- Wellington High School
- The Wrap Up is back! With news of VUW scholarships and graduation success to selection for the Young Shakespeare Company in 2022; plus local successes at EPro8 and recognition of coaching talent by Netball Wellington there is much to celebrate. Also included are details of key dates for the term and an offer of great careers support for those leaving us at the end of 2021.
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Danielle Burns: Finding her creative groove
- The Learning Connexion
- Danielle Burns has wanted to create art as long as she can remember.
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The Learning Connexion, Eastern Hutt Road, Pomare, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Creative Collider Residency
- Capital E
- Capital E’s National Theatre for Children recently hosted the inaugural Creative Collider Residency, a unique programme designed to upskill local theatre practitioners and support the creation of high-quality theatre for young audiences.
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Sportsperson of the Year Awards – Moving to Online Event, Wednesday 10 November
- College Sport Wellington
- Dear CSW Stakeholders, Unfortunately, but rather predictably, we have made the decision to move this year’s CSW Sportsperson of the Year Awards to an online event.
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SALSA spreading along the Alpine Fault
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Te Herenga Waka-led research team has this week started installing the densest network yet of earthquake-recording equipment along the Alpine Fault.
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Lucan Willis: Making Things that Last
- The Learning Connexion
- Lucan Willis says he is a maker at heart.
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Taster League – Ultimate (Term 4)
- College Sport Wellington
- Wellington Disc Sports are offering an awesome opportunity for beginners and novice players to have a go at Ultimate Frisbee.
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Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington Graduates
- Wellington High School
- Former students of Wellington High School and Com Ed Centre graduating from Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington It is with pleasure that we share a list of our former students who have graduated from Victoria University between June 2020 and May 2021. We acknowledge and celebrate their wonderful success. First Name Last […]
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Boys 1XI Cricket – Players to watch
- College Sport Wellington
- Story courtesy of College Sport Media The College Sport Wellington boys Premier cricket season is set to launch and once again there will be plenty of talent basking in the capital sun.
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Adam Art Gallery’s new intern announced
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Louie Zalk-Neale has taken up their role as the new intern at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery.
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Success in EVolocity Challenge
- Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
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The biggest threat to reefs in our lifetime
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Ocean acidification is the biggest problem for coralline algae when assessed against all others. Now is the time for COP26 leaders to be courageous on the issue, argues Dr Christopher Cornwall.
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Youth justice experts call for urgent law changes to reduce harm in the youth justice system
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Associate Professor Nessa Lynch with Professor Ian Lambie of the University of Auckland and Children’s Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft have been leading a piece of work on closing the legislative gaps in the youth justice system
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Severe fires cause declines in plants
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Research on trees in North America paints a gloomy picture for the recovery of native plants in Aotearoa New Zealand following severe fires. Dr Nicola Day co-authored a recent study about plant re-establishment after forest fires.
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New Chancellor for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Wellingtonian John Allen has been elected Chancellor of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington for 2022, succeeding Neil Paviour-Smith whose time on Council ends in early 2022.
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Coaching Workshop for School Staff (and volunteers)
- College Sport Wellington
- Following on from last year’s successful pilot, College Sport Wellington and Nuku Ora are pleased to advise we will again be offering a one-day coaching workshop for school staff during NCEA exams (also open to volunteers if they can get time off).
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Cancelled – 2021 CSW Rugby League 9’s tournament
- College Sport Wellington
- Fakaalofa lahi atu and happy Niuean language week Unfortunately the CSW Rugby League 9s tournament due to be played on Saturday 30th October, is cancelled.
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2021 Sports and Cultural Awards
- Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
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Airborne microplastics affect climate change
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Microplastics in the atmosphere are likely to directly affect climate change in the decades ahead, according to a new study.
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2021 Squash Champs – Results
- College Sport Wellington
- Final placings as follows: Girls Competitive 1- Diana Galloway (HVHS) 2- Mackenzie Tait (Wairarapa) 3- Hannah Du Toit (Wellington High) 4- Sophia De Nardi-Gonzalez (St Orans) 5- Kyra Wyeth (St Mary’s) 6- Hollie Thomas (St Mary’s) 7- Charlotte Haxton (Heretaunga) Boys Competitive 1- Oliver Dunbar (Scots) 2- Otis Brown (Wellington High) 3- Levi Hawkins (HIBS) […] The post 2021 Squash Champs – Results appeared first on College Sport Wellington.
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Jared Wiremu Kane is the International Institute of Modern Letters 2022 Emerging Māori Writer-in-Residence
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the appointment of Jared Wiremu Kane (Ngāpuhi) as the 2022 Emerging Māori Writer-in-Residence.
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Researcher joins Breakthrough Energy Fellows
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Franck Natali joins Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Fellows to help bring climate innovation from the lab to widespread adoption with his work into cleaner ammonia production.
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Walking through living architecture
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Robin Skinner from the Wellington School of Architecture is looking forward to leading a walk through the Kelburn campus on Sunday 31 October during Wellington Heritage Week.
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Taking RNA technology into NZ’s future
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand has the opportunity to establish itself at the cutting edge of RNA technology. We already possess the scientific expertise to solve problems unique to our nation and globally—we just need the investment, writes Kylie Price from the Malaghan Institute.
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Parents are not failing their children by bringing them into the world
- Victoria University of Wellington
- As people start to consider the morality of bringing children into our climate change-wreaked world, visiting research scholar and teaching fellow Dr Snita Ahir-Knight explores why this is flawed.
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Long-term greenhouse gas influence on retreating glaciers
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Greenhouse gases have determined the extent of Aotearoa New Zealand’s glaciers for longer than just the industrial period, scientists now believe.
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Many of New Zealand’s most popular websites use ‘dark patterns’ to manipulate users – is it time to regulate?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Media Studies lecturer Dr Cherie Lacey and postdoctoral research fellow Dr Alex Beattie from the Centre of Science in Society explain "dark patterns" and the impact they are having on our online purchasing habits.
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Mandatory vaccination required for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington halls of residence
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Vaccination against COVID-19 will be mandatory for students and staff living and working in Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington operated student accommodation in 2022.
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Humans are driving animals and plants to the edge. But are we really heading into a mass extinction?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- It is now common to refer to the current biodiversity crisis as the sixth mass extinction. Associate Professor Michael Hannah asks if this is true? Are we in the middle of an event on the same scale as the five ancient mass extinctions Earth has experienced?
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Kicking the can on methane
- Victoria University of Wellington
- There is a real risk that focusing on methane will mean we take our foot off the accelerator of CO2 reductions – where we've traditionally had a pretty poor record, write Professor Dave Frame and Dr Adrian Macey.
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COVID-19 update: Friday 15 October
- Wellington High School
- Kia ora koutou There were a number of announcements from the Government in the last week that will affect how we operate in the future and I need to share these with you in this communication. It is pleasing to see the response by most New Zealanders to this latest COVID outbreak with high rates […]
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International education’s hidden taonga
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Once the COVID-19 storm abates, the international education field will hopefully be ready to unearth its taonga. Chris Beard explains what that is.
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Let the children vote
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Simon Keller lays out a case for why mature democracies like ours should extend the right to vote to children as young as 10.
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Sharing the Load – Scots College Win Pohlen Cup
- College Sport Wellington
- Story courtesy of College Sport Media Scots College won the senior boys Pohlen Cup basketball Premiership for the first time with a 103-96 victory over Mana College in the final.
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Coping with ambiguity now COVID's here to stay
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A new and confusing system is now in place thanks to the uncertainty of Delta, and many are feeling more stressed and anxious than ever. Te Herenga Waka's Dr Dougal Sutherland and his colleagues have some practical suggestions.
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Zippy Zander Blasts Wellington College to Epic Win
- College Sport Wellington
- Story courtesy of College Sport Media “I was scared when I saw it hit the post.
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Te Herenga Waka student joins Emerging Innovator programme
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Master's student Holly Gooch is now part of the KiwiNet Emerging Innovator programme to progress a project to help twice-exceptional secondary students.
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St Ashley of COVIDton
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Superhero, saint, sex symbol, saviour—the mild-mannered public servant fronting the COVID-19 response has been the focus of an almost cult-like following, according to new research published by two sociolinguistics scholars.
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New leadership appointments for Faculty of Law and Wellington School of Business and Government
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Mark Hickford has been appointed to the newly-created role of Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Government, Law and Business, to whom the Deans of the Faculty of Law and the Wellington School of Business and Government will report.
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ECE teachers essential workers in all but name
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Returning to work amidst the outbreak of the Delta variant, early childhood teachers must be recognised as essential workers - and remunerated as such, writes Dr Sue Cherrington.
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Tasty Success – Taulelei Guides QMC to Maiden Sharp Trophy
- College Sport Wellington
- Story courtesy of College Sport Media Queen Margaret College (QMC) has had the team on paper to deliver a maiden Sharp Trophy basketball championship for a handful of seasons.
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The minority group we're not including
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Organisations everywhere are talking 'diversity' but there's one large minority group whose voice is not being recorded, represented and heard, writes the Faculty of Law's Professor Graeme Austin.
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Separate stroke and heart attack risk predictors necessary
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Denise Taylor and her colleagues at the University of Aucklan call for separate stroke and heart attack risk predictors to improve understanding for those at risk.
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Results – 2021 CSW Table Tennis Team Regional Champs
- College Sport Wellington
- Please find the results below of the 2021 College Sport Wellington Table Tennis Team Regional Champs, held on Friday 11 August at Empire Table Tennis Club. Results – 2021 CSW Table Tennis Team Regional Champs A big thank you to Table Tennis Wellington for running a fantastic event. The post Results – 2021 CSW Table Tennis Team Regional Champs appeared first on College Sport Wellington.
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FREE Digital Fluency Workshops for Students & Teachers
- College Sport Wellington
- Victory-Up is now able to deliver professional learning and workshops to students and teachers for free as part of the Ministry of Education centrally funded Professional Learning and Development (PLD) model for digital fluency https://pld.
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Cisco and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington announce new cybersecurity micro-credential delivered by Kāpuhipuhi Wellington Uni-Professional
- Victoria University of Wellington
- thanks to a new micro-credential created by Cisco and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealanders wanting a career in the lucrative and growing cybersecurity industry now have a natural starting point.
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New Zealand’s debt collection problem
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand has a problem with harassment by debt collectors, and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Victoria Stace believes guidelines such as those in operation in Australia are the answer.
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On campus trial of tap in technology with NZ COVID Tracer
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Ministry of Health is trialling use of Near Field Communications tags with the NZ COVID Tracer app at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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The Wrap Up (Weeks 9 & 10, Term 3)
- Wellington High School
- It's the end of term and the Wrap Up is busy! Next term's key dates (including a change to the end of term) are highlighted and we include important information for the derived grade exams and start of Term 4. We celebrate Drama, Music and Science and join the International Department in activities through the term.
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