Read through news from 2015.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Grant Guilford recently announced Victoria University of Wellington’s aim to be the ‘University of Choice’ for Pasifika students and staff in New Zealand and the Pacific region. And so in June, the University sent a small team of staff to Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
They say it takes a whole village to raise a child. That’s exactly the scenario Victoria University of Wellington lecturer Ali Glasgow experienced when she spent one month researching the existing education provisions in remote parts of east Indonesia.
Helen Kedgley always wanted to be an artist or art historian but her father insisted she get a ‘proper’ degree from Victoria first.
Victoria University of Wellington scientists are working with Pacific partners in a University-led initiative to prevent, eradicate and manage invasive ant species from parts of the Pacific.
As a child in Vanuatu, Pala Molisa was dragged along by his parents to protests about gender justice or conferences on Pacific development.
Having your home overrun by creepy crawlies is the stuff of nightmares, but ant invasions are a worrying reality for people in some parts of the Pacific.
Dame Meg Taylor, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, sent a strong message to Pacific leaders about the importance of taking ownership of the new Framework for Pacific Regionalism, at a seminar held at Victoria University of Wellington today.
Murray Wilson was 20 when another inmate at Rimutaka Prison suggested he may be dyslexic.
A partnership with Sanitarium UP&GO was launched last week, with a percentage of profits from the company’s vending machines on campus to contribute to scholarships for Pasifika students.
