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Over 40 new PhDs for winter graduation
More than 1700 AUT students graduated in person over two-days of ceremonies at the Aotea Centre last week.
New Zealand kids monolingual, missing out
The Māori language is in a dire situation and the 2013 census saw a further drop in numbers of Māori speaking Māori. In 2015′s Māori language week, Auckland University of Technology Associate Professor Sharon Harvey takes on popular misconceptions, explains how a national languages policy would increase our awareness of languages overall, and tells us how Māori might figure in such a policy. This article was originally published for the Royal Society of New Zealand at Sciblogs.co.nz.
South Auckland high school students get MusicBiz savvy
More than 30 secondary students from schools around South Auckland, and the wider Auckland region, got to hang out with some top radio personalities and learn about the business side of the music industry at Music Biz – a music-meets-the-business-industry workshop held at the Auckland University of Technology’s South Campus in Manukau.
AUT investigates motivations for second language learning
A team of language experts from Te Ipukarea, the National Māori Language Institute at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), are conducting a usage survey of Te Aka, the online Māori-English Dictionary and Index, in a bid to better understand how the Māori language is valued, by whom, and what the socio-cultural motivations for second language acquisition are.
New AUT paper recognises Pacific approaches to health
Health Promotion students studying at the Auckland University of Technology’s South Campus will gain in-depth knowledge of Pacific health following the introduction of a new pacific-focused health paper as of this semester.
Book launch: 30 years on from the Rainbow Warrior bombing
Call for a region-wide push for real nuclear justice in Pacific needed, says Dr David Robie
Why New Zealand needs more C students
Why New Zealand needs more C students
As many students make decisions about semester two enrolments, they and their parents should consider the latest thinking from employers.
Rainbow Warrior redux: How French nuclear terrorism changed the Pacific
Opinion piece by Professor David Robie of AUT’s School of Communication Studies, who travelled on board the Rainbow Warrior for 10 weeks before the bombing and wrote the book Eyes of Fire. A fresh edition was published this week.
Opinion: Let all who can speak te reo Māori, take the language into our digital spaces
The last 30 years has seen a big push to create a critical mass of new speakers of te reo Māori, but that’s not enough, says Dr Dean Mahuta, a te reo Māori language expert in AUT’s Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development – Te Ara Poutama. We need to extend this knowledge into our digital spaces.
AUT students receive AMINZ scholarships
Eight AUT law students received AMINZ scholarships to attend the AMINZ Conference happening 23 – 25 July 2015.