Breadcrumbs List.
Education and society
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Support for young Asian sexual violence survivors
11 May 2023
A teaching toolkit to better support Asian survivors of sexual violence in our schools and tertiary institutions is the aim of a new study at the University of Auckland.
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Thesis in Samoan only second in the world
5 May 2023
University of Auckland PhD graduate Muliagatele Vavaō Fetui has successfully completed only the second doctoral thesis ever written in Samoan and the first awarded by a university outside Samoa.
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Social work sisters: persevering through grief
3 May 2023
Following in her late sister’s footsteps, University of Auckland Master of Social Work graduate Deirdre Little is now working with tamariki to ensure they have the best opportunity to engage with education.
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Graduate aims to build financial literacy in Pacific communities
3 May 2023
Victoria Ongolea wants to prevent financial hardship among Pasifika in Aotearoa, encouraging leadership in financial literacy.
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Female leaders need support not the abuse they so often endure
1 May 2023
Opinion: At a time of global challenges, we need the best leaders to respond. To ensure that happens, Dawn Freshwater writes that women leaders need support to deal with the abuse they face because of their gender.
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Abuse in Care extension necessary to do the job right
18 April 2023
The second extension of the Royal Commission's final report is to be welcomed, says Stephen Winter, but provides no reason to delay redress, which the Government agreed to implement over a year ago
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A voyage into the Māori past on Enderby
5 April 2023
How Māori lived on the sub-Antarctic island of Enderby is the focus of an ambitious expedition involving scientists from the University of Auckland, the University of Canterbury and Ngāi Tahu.
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Strong communities are essential when disaster strikes
2 April 2023
Opinion: Because pro-social behaviour emerges so often after disaster, community empowerment should be central to disaster mitigation and recovery argues Steve Matthewman
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Schools don't need National’s dull, narrow curriculum
2 April 2023
Opinion: The danger of National's policy is that it undoes much of an informal pact with Labour to depoliticise education at a time of real struggle, argues Peter O'Connor.
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Experts adopt creative approach to question contemporary education
1 April 2023
Professor Peter O'Connor and Dr Claudia Rozas Gómez bounce ideas about education back and forth in a series of letters.
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All the chat's about AI, but humans rule
1 April 2023
Opinion: Artificial Intelligence tools used for writing present a much-needed opportunity to reimagine education assessment, says Associate Professor Alex Sims.
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Indigenising our universities: Tēnā tātou 'here we all are'
27 March 2023
Opinion: In a three-part series, Te Kawehau Hoskins and Alison Jones explore the value of an evolving Treaty partnership to higher education. Part 1: Who is the ‘we’ at our institutions.