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Opinion: The cost of youth disengagement
Young people out of employment or education are likely to have a lifetime of poorer outcomes in terms of unemployment, wages and even happiness and health. Associate Professor Gail Pacheco checks out the situation in New Zealand. This opinion piece was first written for Employment Today.
Opinion: Shrinking world highlights challenges for Kiwi innovators
Global opportunity for New Zealand innovators is tempered by the challenge of conducting appropriate communications and finding the best distribution solution. Cultural influences play a sizeable role in communicating messages through modern mediums and supply chains can dictate the success or failure of products irrespective of quality.
Entrepreneurship symposium focused on connection between business and research
Experienced and emerging entrepreneurs, researchers and business leaders gathered to share their entrepreneurship expertise at an AUT University symposium on 15 April 2015.
The humble cuppa - a symbol of diminishing rights?
By Professor Judy McGregor, head of the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Auckland University of Technology
New Zealand’s human rights reputation at risk
A report on the status of human rights in New Zealand says serious fault lines are developing and that the country’s reputation as a global leader is at risk.
Knowledge sharing enables indigenous language and cultural revival
The need for support from the ‘critical mass’ to realise full indigenous language revitalisation, was a key point raised at a recent cultural summit organised by AUT University’s Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development/Te Ara Poutama and Te Ipukarea, AUT’s National Māori Language Institute.
Muslims at Work in New Zealand summit at AUT University
AUT University hosted a summit addressing Muslims at work on 1 April.
AUT hosts Viet Nam’s Prime Minister and signs regional education MOU
AUT University is marking the 40th anniversary of New Zealand’s bilateral relationship with Viet Nam by hosting Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng and signing an education Memorandum of Understanding with Viet Nam’s Quang Ninh province.
Lifelike trauma simulations give AUT paramedics the edge
Lifelike trauma and medical situations will allow AUT University Paramedicine students to apply their skills and gain vital practical experience before entering the workforce.
Woolf Fisher First-in-Family AUT Scholars lead the way
AUT University is proud to announce twelve inaugural recipients of the 2015 Woolf Fisher First-in-Family AUT Scholarship. The scholarships are aimed to support and encourage young people from families with no history of successful university education to complete a university degree.