Breadcrumbs List.
Education and society
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We have to reimagine the education system for Māori
18 December 2024
What educational success might look like for Māori is the focus of a new book by Dr Maia Hetaraka from Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.
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University of Auckland No 1 in NZ in QS Sustainability rankings 2025
10 December 2024
The University of Auckland has been ranked in the top one percent of universities worldwide for sustainability in the latest QS rankings for sustainability.
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Marsden Fund cuts one way to secure ‘convenient’ evidence
6 December 2024
Opinion: Cutting social sciences and humanities from NZ’s ‘blue skies’ research funding means dark times for independent thought, says Tom Baker.
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What do students want from AI chatbots?
29 November 2024
Analysis: Will an AI teaching assistant be better received if it's warm and friendly or professional and competent?
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Young voices central to project aimed at well-being
29 November 2024
What young people in Aotearoa most need to thrive is the focus of Our Voices, a project led by the University of Auckland, and an exhibition at Auckland Museum opening 4 December.
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Who decides what gets taught in universities?
27 November 2024
Opinion: Universities are restructuring themselves, but Nicolas Lewis wonders if they responding to government drivers or are their leaders exercising their new capacity to interpret universities anew?
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Cry for help: young Asian students in Aotearoa
26 November 2024
How schools can better support young Asian sexual violence survivors in New Zealand is the focus of a new study from the University of Auckland.
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Japanese religion and society scholar honoured
21 November 2024
University of Auckland professor Mark Mullins has won the top humanities medal from the Royal Society Te Apārangi for his distinguished scholarship on religion and politics in modern Japan.
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800 mathematicians set to converge on Auckland
12 November 2024
What’s the collective noun for a crowd of mathematicians... a set, a class, an enumeration?
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What New Zealand should expect from a long overdue apology
11 November 2024
Opinion: The Government’s approach to redress for the survivors of abuse in care will be judged in comparison with measures taken overseas, says Stephen Winter;
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No news is not good news
8 November 2024
Dr Gavin Ellis says, given journalism is an indispensable part of the engine that drives our democracy, more must be done to convince the public to care about it.
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Māori and Pacific wahine projects get funding boost
7 November 2024
A focus on Māori and Pacific women and girls connects this year’s successful Marsden grant recipients from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work.