Новости за 18.08.2016

State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes has today announced the appointment of Gráinne Moss as establishment Chief Executive of the new Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Oranga Tamariki.

Medical students support patient safe rosters The New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) supports resident doctors in their call for safer working rosters. Currently resident doctors may work up to 12 days or 7 nights consecutively without ...

For the fifth year running, the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for tertiary teaching excellence has gone to a University of Otago academic.

Stantiall’s Studio Ltd by Lindsay Shelton Who’d have thought that pedestrianisation of Lambton Quay would be officially investigated at the request of our elected councillors? Not however at the request of the city council. The plan has come from the regional council. It was announced last Saturday in a brief message to Wellington.Scoop from Daran […]

Dedication to student-centred and innovative teaching distinguish the two University of Auckland academics who have won Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards in 2016..

Stuff reports: The Government has written off $6 billion in interest on student loans in the last decade but a new report says the policy is a poor use of money and should be scrapped. More than $1.5 million has been lent by the government to students in the last year alone and $602m was immediately […]

News from NZ Opera A ‘killer’ cast meets a theatrical masterpiece by Stephen Sondheim in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which is to play at the St James in Wellington from 30 September. Sweeney Todd is a co-production between New Zealand Opera and Victorian Opera, created by director Stuart Maunder with Tony […]

After the chaos of Tuesday, when fifteen races were sailed across seven events including three medal races, Wednesday’s schedule looked light – just two medal races for the Women’s and Men’s 470.

Stuff reports: A sex offender on the run after cutting off his electronic monitoring bracelet has been caught. Nigel Robert Gately, 48, went missing from the Salisbury St Foundation, a residential facility for prison parolees in St Albans, Christchurch, on Tuesday. Police arrested him in Nelson on Wednesday night following a manhunt across the upper South Island. It is understood he was […]