Students get first experience of NZ camp
When an experience is described as “the best weekend of my life” you know it was success.
AUT making a difference in South Auckland
AUT University is delivering on the Government’s promise to raise the achievement at degree and postgraduate level of groups under-represented in tertiary education.
It’s time to celebrate our summer graduates
We are celebrating our biggest graduation on record – with a total of 3922 students graduating in one of 10 ceremonies over the next four days. Prior to the first ceremony on each day of graduation our graduands will parade in full regalia from Albert Park, along Queen Street through Auckland CBD, finishing at the Town Hall where the ceremonies will take place.
A unique and distinctly Māori team building experience was had by international company GlobalLinks when they were hosted by AUT University at the Ngā Wai o Horotiu Marae this week.
Lecturer of the year wins bodybuilding gold
Ruth Naidoo has had a big couple of weeks. The SPRINZ staff member based at AUT Millennium won two world bodybuilding titles in Reno, Nevada and then took out lecturer of the year at the New Zealand Fitness Awards on Saturday night.
The future of New Zealand media even more unpredictable
The near term future of New Zealand media companies has become more unpredictable in 2012, according to the latest New Zealand media ownership report published by AUT’s Centre for Journalism Media and Democracy (JMAD).
A team of sports medicine experts have done what the All Blacks selectors refused to do and have brought back Buck.
36,000 new brain injuries in NZ each year, incidence at “epidemic proportions”
The number of people with traumatic brain injuries in New Zealand is at “epidemic proportions” according to the lead investigator of a study published today in the international medical journal The Lancet.
All Black hosts free event at North Shore Campus
All Black great Buck Shelford will be at North Shore campus next week telling Kiwi men to stop being so staunch. Coinciding with the end of Movember, the former All Black captain will be at AUT 27 November to discuss how men can live longer, healthier lives.
AUT supports Joyce’s call for more qualified engineers
New Zealand’s universities are currently educating more than 7000 equivalent full time engineering students. The Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand’s recent report indicates an additional 2000 more engineering graduates will be needed to support an innovation-led economy. The Budget 2012 allocated an additional $42 million for this purpose. Therefore AUT has increased its engineering student intake for next year by nearly 10%.