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Prime Minister’s Youth Programme comes to AUT
20 young women, participants in the 2014 Prime Minister’s Youth Programme, took part in a ‘market to table’ experience hosted at AUT’s Four Seasons restaurant this week.
Putting human rights into social protection
Policy-makers and development practitioners have a new tool to help them devise dynamic social protection programmes - a book co-authored by AUT’s Professor Marilyn Waring.
Bleeding, talking mannequin takes students through their paces
He may be plastic, but the SimMan® Essential Bleeding mannequin can spurt blood, talk and scream in pain.
He’s an essential ‘member’ of AUT University’s Paramedicine team and is one of the high-fidelity human simulators used for teaching Paramedicine and Emergency Management. Using these real-life mannequins, students deal with worst-case scenarios under the guidance of a lecturer, technician and support person in an observation booth. The technician’s voice is transmitted via the mannequin, giving it the ability to speak and respond to the students’ questions.
International Award for AUT student
Postgraduate student journalist Daniel Drageset has won a coveted international prize in trauma journalism - the 2013 Dart trauma journalism award.
Drageset won the award for his multimedia news report series about the torture of a fugitive prisoner and his suspected accomplice by Fiji prison officers
Student wins first ever Joseph Peart Scholarship
PR company Porter Novelli announced last week that the inaugural Joseph Peart Scholarship has been awarded to AUT Communication Studies student Kaya Arai.
Inspirational scholar recognised with Prime Minister’s Award
Edmond Fehoko believes in the transformative power of education – he has seen it in his own life and now helps other students to experience it too.
AUT celebrates biggest graduation ever!
AUT University is celebrating its largest ever graduation this week as 4180 students receive their qualifications at one of eight ceremonies over the next three days. At the beginning of each day, AUT graduands will also have the opportunity to parade proudly in their regalia from Albert Park to Aotea Centre, where the ceremonies will be held.
AUT student wins Prime Minister's Pacific Youth Award
AUT student Edmond Fehoko has won the Cogita Inspiration Award at the 2013 Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Awards.
The awards, which Education Minister Hekia Parata says in a press release “profile high-achieving young Pacific people” and “help inspire young Pacific people to reach their full potential”, are awarded for leadership, creativity and inspiration.
AUT University students graduate to the world
This week as many university students prepare to graduate with their undergraduate degrees, nine AUT students will also be packing their bags and preparing to jet off to the USA for their first taste of work-life inside a global organisation.
Research explores the legacy of RWC 2011 volunteering
Many Rugby World Cup 2011 volunteers delivered on their intentions to do more volunteer work after an outstanding experience with the event, a longitudinal study has found.