19 August 2026

Award winner educator Dr Sarah McLean-Orsborn has built a reputation for creating learning spaces where students feel seen, valued and inspired.

18 August 2026

The University farewells notable New Zealand poet and long-time English tutor Riemke Ensing with a tribute from her biographer Deborah Shepard.

18 August 2026

Six projects by University of Auckland architecture and design staff have been shortlisted for the NZIA National Awards, placing them alongside some of New Zealand’s most significant new buildings.

26 August 2026

The 2026 State of the City Report shows Auckland is gaining ground as an innovation city, but needs to do more to help promising businesses stay in the city.

26 August 2026

AI has changed the game for global trade, says trade expert Sir Crawford Falconer, a keynote speaker at the 2026 Auckland Trade and Economic Policy School event on 3 September.

22 August 2026

Commentary: There’s something almost admirable about the predictability and longevity of the process around the Auckland second harbour crossing, writes Tim Welch.

13 August 2026

Analysis: Universities can help students thrive in an AI-shaped workforce by combining deep subject expertise with broader skills, say Hanoku Bathula and Patrick Dodd.

5 August 2026

Comment: Until policymakers confront the elephant, no amount of “rebalancing” will fix the room when it comes to early childhood education, says Kiri Gould.

3 August 2026

Analysis: Overlapping parental leave is the right idea – we just need more fathers to take it, writes Joanne Mutter.

26 August 2026

Researchers are investigating how children are affected when a parent or caregiver is imprisoned, and how their rights and needs can be better understood and supported.

21 August 2026

Analysis: The government has just received a raft of suggestions to overhaul its under-pressure aged-care system.

20 August 2026

EY Māori and Pacific Business Student of the Year Awards celebrate excellence.

26 August 2026

The Covid-19 vaccine could transform cancer treatment and significantly increase patient survival rates, says University of Auckland Professor John Fraser.

24 August 2026

Comment: NZ’s drop to 53rd on the tobacco interference index shows how commercial lobbying quietly steers major government decisions. It’s time we brought in strict reforms to curb the oversized influence of commercial interests in politics says Boyd Swinburn.

21 August 2026

Analysis: The government has just received a raft of suggestions to overhaul its under-pressure aged-care system.

26 August 2026

Researchers are investigating how children are affected when a parent or caregiver is imprisoned, and how their rights and needs can be better understood and supported.

24 August 2026

Comment: NZ’s drop to 53rd on the tobacco interference index shows how commercial lobbying quietly steers major government decisions. It’s time we brought in strict reforms to curb the oversized influence of commercial interests in politics says Boyd Swinburn.

19 August 2026

Commentary: Anthropic paid $1.5b over pirated books, yet US courts ruled book scanning is ‘fair use’. Alex Sims considers what this means for NZ authors.

25 August 2026

Professor Grant Searchfield spent 30 years tackling the “gnarly problem” of tinnitus. His University of Auckland research is behind TrueSilence Therapeutics, a digital health start-up taking a personalised tinnitus treatment from the lab to patients.

21 August 2026

Students from girls-only schools were overrepresented among female students studying Engineering and Computer Science at university.

20 August 2026

Opinion: New Zealand wants to be an AI hub but risks being more of a concierge service, supplying land, water and power to host big data services but receiving little economic benefit, writes PhD student Angus Dowell.

26 August 2026

The 2026 State of the City Report shows Auckland is gaining ground as an innovation city, but needs to do more to help promising businesses stay in the city.

26 August 2026

A new report highlights what Auckland's champions knew all along - that it's going places. But so are many of its best and brightest.

17 August 2026

In his second pōwhiri as Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nic Smith says one of the University’s most important relationships is with mana whenua, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.

13 August 2026

Inside the quest for the next breakthrough drug to treat diseases of the brain.

13 July 2026

Te Pūnaha Ātea-1, (TPA-1) a satellite home-grown in New Zealand launched in June last year. On its 515km high orbit it has been capturing fresh images of our planet.

28 May 2026

The re-dedication of the Sir James Henare Research Centre recalls the layers of history and renews aspirations for the future.