Victoria University / September 2013
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Planned eTV Outage
- Victoria University Library
- eTV will be unavailable to all users on Monday 7th of October and Tuesday 8th of October. If you require any videos for use on those days, please download in advance. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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Entering the drone debate
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Drones have many useful purposes, but should be used with a high degree of caution, an academic from Victoria University of Wellington warns.
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Voting effectively under STV
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- Nigel Roberts, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Victoria University, explains the voting system Wellingtonians use to elect their mayor and councillors.
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Popular maths writer to speak in Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The author of numerous books which have popularised mathematics to general audiences around the world will give a public lecture at Victoria University in early October.
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Fees increase around $265 per student
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- Domestic students at Victoria University will pay, on average, $265 more in tuition fees in 2014 as a result of increases agreed to yesterday by the University Council.
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Serious fun and games
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A summer boot camp set entrepreneurial game design graduates a challenge: to balance the fun of creating a game with the demands of building a start-up.
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New Zealand novel The Luminaries shortlisted for Man Booker Prize
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University Press is thrilled at the announcement that Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries has made the short list of just six books for the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2013.
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Churches loosening up towards alcohol
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Churches are relaxing attitudes towards drinking alcohol, partly to attract members, new research has found.
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PhD to focus on skilled migration by New Zealand Pacific Islanders
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A life-changing experience teaching English abroad has inspired the PhD topic of a Victoria University of Wellington scholarship winner.
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Leading astronomer visits Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A top Australian astronomer will visit Wellington next week to give a public lecture on one of the world’s largest science projects.
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Learning the ancient secrets of happiness
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Students will have an opportunity to tap into the ancient secrets of happiness in an intensive new Philosophy course this summer.
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Public servants work hard but think poorly of their employers
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New research has found that public servants are committed to their jobs and motivated to make a difference, but think poorly of the organisations they work for.
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Town versus gown show down to test the meaning of life
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Mayor Celia Wade-Brown and Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon Host Kathryn Ryan are among a team of ‘townies’ that will take on academics in a quiz about life this Saturday.
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Changes to Vic Info Ihonui Level One Opening Hours
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- Vic Info Ihonui on Level One, Kelburn Library, will now close from 6pm on weeknights and will not open during the weekend.
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Temporary Institutional Repository Outage - 2 September 2013
- Victoria University Library
- The Library's two institutional repositories - ResearchArchive and RestrictedArchive - are temporarily offline for maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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