Australia & NZ News

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 4-10 February

This week: praise for scientists, a visa communication error and calls for more shark research

ViewBiosecurity research centre to put focus on Māori knowledge

Centre has seven years of funding to build on existing facility at Lincoln University

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 28 January to 3 February

This week: a security breach, cannabis research and a literary award

ViewGovernment told to develop R&D plan for agriculture emissions

Climate Change Commission says New Zealand must speed up energy transition in agriculture and transport

ViewNZ government provides ‘lifeline’ for early career researchers

Fellowships will be awarded to 30 young researchers, but scientists say more support is needed

ViewHealth research hit hard by Covid-19, study finds

Most non-coronavirus medical research in New Zealand has been affected, say Otago researchers

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 21-27 January

This week: a union appointment, digital inequality and honours for a Māori education advocate

ViewEquity and access prioritised in updated tertiary funding rules

New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Commission releases guidelines for university funding from 2022

ViewPacific peoples underrepresented in science, report says

NZ ministry recommends earlier exposure to technology and clearer pathways into science careers

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 14-20 January

This week: worrying climate reports, border controls and a winning paper on decolonisation

ViewNew Zealand to allow return of 1,000 international students

Students who were overseas when borders closed can start to return from April

ViewNew Zealand’s international students face uncertain future

Students already in the country are suffering hardships, while border controls prevent others from entering

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 17 December to 13 January

This week: a hearing is adjourned, a health survey is launched and fellowships are awarded

ViewSecurity breached at Health Research Council of New Zealand

Few details given as research grant administrator scrambles to investigate ‘cybersecurity incident’

ViewNZ government told to overhaul environmental research funding

Spending on environmental research is hard to quantify and often misdirected, commissioner finds

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 10-16 December

This week: Massey protests, a call for panellists and a drop in international student numbers

ViewUrgent action needed on health research, government told

New Zealand must start translating research into better health outcomes, says advocacy alliance

ViewPest database to aid biosecurity research

New Zealand launches centralised database of 24,000 pests

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 3-9 December

This week: climate discussions, gene editing and a centre for Massey students in China

ViewScientists ‘shaken’ by White Island charges

New Zealand Association of Scientists calls for debate around free flow of scientific information

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 26 November to 2 December

This week: a glass ceiling, agritech funding and a study on participation in clinical trials

ViewUniversities need extra funds urgently, Hipkins told

NZ institutions ask education minister for help in coping with Covid-19 and an enrolment surge

ViewGeoscience institute taken to court over volcano deaths

New Zealand Crown Research Institute faces charges over White Island disaster

ViewUniversities pin hopes on extra quarantine capacity

New Zealand vice-chancellors look to minister Chris Hipkins for a solution to international student dilemma

ViewInternational students not expected to return in early 2021

New Zealand has only made border exceptions for a small cohort of 250 postgraduate students

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 19-25 November

This week: Covid-19 discussions with US president-elect Joe Biden, cleaner water and national education priorities

ViewNew Zealand researchers expand their work on Covid-19

Border testing strengthened as researchers investigate the pandemic’s unexpected consequences

ViewMāori knowledge not supported by funding systems, study says

Researchers call for New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund to ‘be rethought from an Indigenous perspective’

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 12-18 November

This week: Covid-19 cases, awards for computing and health research and a study of stuttering

ViewGovernment funding for 134 research projects announced

New Zealand’s Marsden Fund backs asthma research and a study of bushfire effects on glaciers