$5.4 million for school wireless connections
Nikki Kaye | EducationOn a visit today to Clifton Terrace Model School in Wellington, Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye announced funding of $5.4 million to enable upgrades to improve wireless connectivity for more than 400 schools. Ms Kaye says it’s a significant boost for staff and students who want to be more mobile with their devices while at school. ...
Steven Joyce | Science and Innovation
New Zealand’s top researchers will receive $56 million in Marsden Fund grants over the next three years as a result of funding decisions announced today, Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce says. 101 programmes have been approved in this year’s funding round and include projects on robotics as therapy for cerebral palsy, using Google balloons to probe weather systems, why heart failure is common in diabetics, and fine-scale imaging of the Alpine Fault zone. ...
New Zealand’s top researchers will receive $56 million in Marsden Fund grants over the next three years as a result of funding decisions announced today, Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce says. 101 programmes have been approved in this year’s funding round and include projects on robotics as therapy for cerebral palsy, using Google balloons to probe weather systems, why heart failure is common in diabetics, and fine-scale imaging of the Alpine Fault zone. ...
Some Linwood College parents are removing their children from the school, citing concerns the relationship between staff and management could affect students' learning.
A Wellington researcher's been granted hundreds of thousands of dollars to study Maori law and its role within, and alongside, the current legal system.
Two University of Canterbury researchers have received $870,000 in Marsden funding over three years to research how engineering and psychology could combine to make wearable computer systems easier to use.HIT Lab NZ director Professor...
Ten Massey University-led research projects will receive research funding worth more than $5.1 million from the Government's Marsden Fund this year.
Waikato University researchers awarded four Marsden grants
Investigating whether a ‘sin’ tax would reduce consumption of things that are bad for our health is the subject of one of four projects led by University of Waikato researchers that has been supported in the latest round of Marsden Funding.
Auckland celebrates $15.2 million success in Marsden Fund
The University of Auckland is celebrating the success of 28 of its researchers and research groups, who have won $15.2 million in the prestigious Marsden Fund round, amounting to 27.3 percent of the total awarded this year.
Dr Georgina Stewart of the Faculty of Education’s Tai Tokerau Campus in Whangarei has received a $300,000 research grant in the prestigious Marsden Fund 2014 round.
Victoria University of Wellington researchers have received 25 prestigious Marsden Fund grants worth $12.1 million, the largest number ever received by the University.
From the science of elections to the adaptive ability of an endangered New Zealand bird, research programmes at the University of Auckland have attracted $7.33 million in Marsden Fund grants for 2014.
Teaching shouldn't stop at the physical - students
Stuff.co.nzSuggestions that the issue of sexual consent could be introduced to the classroom in a more formal capacity was a promising sign that something more serious could be considered to educate youngsters, Wilson-Orr said. "People are stepping up now and ...
NZ universities should chase the Chinese tertiary education market in a joint ...
Interest.co.nzThe annual event also allows foreign tertiary institutions an avenue to access the Chinese tertiary education market. Given that there are seven million graduates each year in China, the market is significant for foreign institutions interested in ...
Secondary schools left out of the shade
Scoop.co.nz (press release)“Teenagers are more aware of their looks and are extremely sensitive to the views of their peers so it comes as no surprise that they prefer to wear fashionable clothing as opposed to adult-advised sun protective covered clothing,” Dr Reiche says ...
Food In Schools Bill A 'Band-Aid' Solution
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Family First NZ says that the Food in Schools Bill due for its 1st Reading in Parliament this week is well-intentioned but will be a short-term band-aid to mask the more serious issues of parental neglect, loan sharks, budgeting, and family breakdown ...
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