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UC Connect public lecture: Discovering New Particles

What can a particle tell us about the nature of the universe? And what fundamental natural laws might be discovered next?

Source University of Canterbury release

Victoria University students swap the beach for the boardroom

Talented students from Victoria University of Wellington are ready to swap the beach for the boardroom this summer while they brainstorm, problem solve and offer creative solutions to a host of businesses and organisations as part of the University’s Summer Research Scholarships programme.

Source A Victoria University Release

EIT Trades Academy student awarded overseas trip

Rahiri Makuini Edwards-Hammond leaves for Columbia in the New Year.

Wairoa student Rahiri Makuini Edwards-Hammond has been awarded a trip to Columbia, having risen to the challenges set at a nationwide Lions Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme workshop.

Source A EIT release

Students to broaden their horizons in China

Six Wintec students will experience a trip of a lifetime when they fly to China in September as part of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia.

Hanri de Bruin is preparing for what she describes as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.

The second-year Otago Polytechnic Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Electrical) learner will attend the International Summer Academy in Engineering for Women at the University of Applied Science Upper Austria from 10-25 July.

Source Otago polytechnic

Philosophy conference puts minds to the big questions

Victoria University of Wellington is about to host 300 of the world’s ablest thinkers as they put their minds to some of life’s knottiest questions.

Source A Victoria University Release

UC strengthens ties with India’s leading international schools

The University of Canterbury has signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) with three of India’s leading international high schools.

Source University of Canterbury

Fulton Hogan opens its doors to Canterbury students

An enthusiastic group of Canterbury students enjoyed a ‘hands on’ day at Fulton Hogan in Christchurch this week – and it’s inspired the young women for a career in the Infrastructure Industry.

Source Fulton Hogan

Ara’s Kahukura facility has taken out another prestigious award, this time in New Zealand.

The Jasmax-designed facility won Excellence & Best in Category for the Resene Green Building, and a merit for the GIB Education Property category, last Friday 15 June at the Property Council of New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Awards ceremony in Auckland.

Source ARA

From chalkboards to overhead projectors and whiteboards to smartboards, educators have looked for clever and effective ways to engage their students in learning.

At the Ara Institute of Canterbury Woolston trades campus, a new era has arrived in the form of the LightBoard.

Source Canterbury University

$13 million for leading-edge biotech research

The Government and the University of Waikato are investing $13 million in a new research programme in Tauranga aimed at helping tackle some of the biggest issues facing New Zealand’s primary sector, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced today.

Source/ReadMore A Beehive release

Sparkie lights awards stage

Matt Macaulay works as an electrical fitter at Unison.

Top Hawke’s Bay apprentice Matthew Macaulay is a bright spark in the trades. From Hastings, Matt qualified as a horticulturist and then as a boilermaker before deciding to pursue an electrical engineering apprenticeship, studying at EIT.