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AUT Women in Leadership Week 16th - 20th September.
To celebrate the 120th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in New Zealand, the NZWIL@AUT (New Zealand Women in Leadership @ AUT) alumni have initiated a ‘Women in Leadership Week’ from 16th to 20th September 2013. The aim of the programme is to recognise and enhance women’s achievements, leadership capacities and influence in teaching, research and administration at all levels of the University.
AUT jumps 20 places in QS rankings
The 2013 set of QS world rankings has placed AUT University in the top 500 for the second year, improving its position by 20 places. To be once again in the top 500 is a great indicator of the teaching, learning and research that is being undertaken at the university.
Top Brain Scientist to give Bishop Sir Paul Reeves Memorial Lecture
New Zealand’s top brain scientist, Professor Richard Faull ONZM, FRSNZ will give the Bishop Sir Paul Reeves Memorial lecture, at 7:30pm on September 12th, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell.
2013 Business support winners announced
Kiwibank Business Markets has beaten 41 finalists to the Supreme Award at the AUT Business School’s 2013 Excellence in Business Support Awards, the only national performance measure available to the business support sector.
AUT University dons sustainability gown
AUT University has been named as a finalist in the carbon reduction category for the Green Gown Awards Australasia, the only University in New Zealand to be recognised in this category.
Once again, AUT University has come back from the National Culinary Fare triumphant, with a stack of medals to display.
Students and graduates from AUT’s School of Hospitality and Tourism programmes, Diploma in Culinary Arts (DCA), Diploma in Patisserie (DipPat) and Bachelor of International Hospitality Management (BIHM), competed in a range of classes at the national event, with plenty of gold, silver and bronze medals being awarded.
Pacific focus for new gambling research
The most detailed study to date of Pacific people’s gambling and the impacts of problem gambling in New Zealand has been carried out by AUT University researchers.
The study was commissioned by the Ministry of Health to improve understanding of the impact of gambling on Pacific people, inform risk factors and better understand causes of problem gambling.
Researchers give Auckland Super City a ‘B’
Auckland’s Super City is sitting on a ‘B’ grade for its first term performance and needs to prove itself in its second term according to research from AUT University.
Māori language and culture celebrated in the USA
Te Ipukarea – The National Māori Language Institute and Te Whare o Rongomaurikura – The International Centre for Language Revitalisation (the Centre) co-hosted the Māori Language Revitalisation in Aotearoa/New Zealand Symposium as a side event of Washington DC based Smithsonian Institutes One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage Folklife Festival in early July.
Former Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons will speak about an alternative economy of ‘enough’ at the launch of the AUT Business School’s new Sustainable Enterprise major (Bachelor of Business) on Tuesday 27 August.
This public lecture will challenge concepts of business-as-usual and growth at all costs, and will describe a potential future in which people do less work but share it equally, and where there is less consumption of energy and materials, and more local production and growth in knowledge, science and innovation.