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Something in the water?
Why do so many of New Zealand’s most successful cartoonists come from the Manawatu – three of them from Feilding?

News Releases

07/06/2002
A learning net cast across the Shore
A broadcasting studio and a web cam on Lake Pupuke are potential projects under a new $300,000 Internet learning programme for primary and secondary students being piloted in four North Shore schools.

04/06/2002
University to undertake Ecommerce Project
The University is embarking on a project to empower departments to buy goods and services more simply and economically than in the past.

30/05/2002
Massey Study Finds Toxic Noise Levels in Early Education
A Massey University Study in early childhood centres has found alarming and unacceptable levels of noise.

Study with the dolphins
With a sigh of relief and a dose of local generosity, Massey University PhD student Karen Stockin finally got her research boat onto the water at Auckland’s Gulf Harbour this week.

24/05/2002
Former Prime Minister Bolger receives Honorary Doctorate
The “people question” – the mass exodus of refugees from poor nations – is the single most important issue facing the planet at the start of the new millennium, says former Prime Minister Dr Jim Bolger.

23/05/2002
New academic head for Massey University
One of the country’s leading educationalists has been appointed as Massey University’s new Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Academic).

23/05/2002
Future rugby stars given a tertiary education
New Zealand’s future All Blacks are not only honing their rugby skills with the world’s best coaches, they are also getting a university education.

23/05/2002
Defence Force Chief visits Massey
New Zealand Defence Force Chief Air Marshal Bruce Ferguson will visit Massey University today, to launch its Centre for Defence Studies, and hold discussions on further developing education opportunities for the Armed Forces.

23/05/2002
Children’s book highlights East Timor peacekeeping experience
A children’s book on the peacekeeping mission in East Timor has recently been written and released by Massey University Centre for Defence Studies lecturer Dr Glyn Harper.

23/05/2002
Careers researcher honoured
The man who identified young Kiwis’ ‘ Big OE’ as a positive career move and a nationally enriching tradition received the inaugural Massey University College of Business Distinguished Researcher Award at Albany this week.

22/05/2002
Ergonomics programme goes international
The high standard of Massey University’s ergonomics programme will see it open its doors to international students from 2003, to cater for overseas demand.

Campus News

Opposition against export education levy
University representatives mounted a strong case against the proposed levy on international student fee income at an Education and Science Select Committee hearing earlier this month.

PTC mooted for incubator site
Massey’s Practical Teaching Complex (PTC) is being touted as the preferred location for a Palmerston North business incubator, should it get the go-ahead. However, no decision has yet been made.

Tertiary education strategy released
Although the Government’s new ‘quality rather than quantity’ approach to tertiary education will be good for New Zealand, exactly how that phrase is interpreted remains to be seen.

$4.2 million for better services
The University will receive a one-off payment of $4.28 million from the Tertiary Education Strategy Change Fund as part of the Government’s push towards ‘strategically focused research’.

Pygmy sperm whale autopsied
Scarce food supplies are likely to have caused the death of a pregnant pygmy sperm whale and her calf, which were autopsied at the University recently.

Collective Employment Agreement settled
The Massey University Collective Employment Agreement expired on 27 October 2001. A new Collective Agreement has now been negotiated between the University and representatives of the combined staff unions and was settled on 9 May 2002.

Features

$1.25m for health research
A $1.25m Health Research Council (HRC) Programme Grant for the University’s Centre for Public Health Research has ensured long-term funding for the centre, says the Director, Professor Neil Pearce.

Posters explore environment
Bachelor of Design student Shi Jie Yao was one of 54 students displaying their work in a You Are Here poster exhibition in the Great Hall last week.

First book from e-centre
A book by two former Massey social science lecturers and e-centre enterprise directors has been well received by its target audience – anyone involved in an organisation serious about improving how it manages its knowledge.

Research and Development

High cost of free education
Parents are paying schools about $30 million a year in donations for free state education of their children.

Asbestos study results released
Results from a pilot study of asbestos fibres being released into the environment in Wellington have confirmed earlier suspicions that such releases are the rule, rather than the exception.

Marketing book updated
The cutting edge thoughts of post-modernist theory can be applied to the ‘real world’ of marketing management, according to the latest book by Professor of Marketing Education Richard Buchanan.

Family definition ‘misleading’
Statistics New Zealand’s definition of ‘family’ is creating major distortions in family statistics – and potentially in government policy, according to research from the Department of Applied and International Economics.

Fascination with fantasies studied
PhD student Bronwyn Beatty, is fascinated by New Zealand’s fascination with Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings.

Graduation Stories

City and University share celebrations
Ten thousand students and their supporters gathered in Palmerston North for a week of graduation ceremonies, the last for Vice-Chancellor James McWha.

PM reinforces need for collaboration
Prime Minister Helen Clark called for more collaboration between universities and research institutions, in her speech to science graduands.

It’s never too late to start study
The graduation of 92-year-old student Lynda Hager on 16 May was a celebration and farewell for a remarkable woman who died only weeks before her ceremony.

Ceremony to honour Mäori graduates
Sixteen students who are part of the School of Mäori Studies’ Te Rau Puawai programme were among those honoured at a special ceremony for Mäori graduates on Friday 17 May.

Something in the water?
Why do so many of New Zealand’s most successful cartoonists come from the Manawatu – three of them from Feilding?

What the speakers said

Doctor of Philosophy graduates

Honours at age 15
After becoming the University’s youngest graduate last year, 15-year-old Shona Yu (right) has graduated with a first class honours degree in mathematics.

Events

Alumni flock home for ag and hort reunion
Nearly 400 alumni came from all over the world to attend a reunion dinner as part of the University’s week-long celebration of 75 years of agricultural and horticultural innovation.

Does NZ dairy farming stack up?
New Zealand might think it has the lowest costs of milk production in the world but true profitability on average could be classed as uncomfortably borderline compared to other countries. Plus other stories from the Dairy Farming Conference.

Agriculture Students Centre opens
Students and senior staff of the University gathered recently to celebrate the opening of the Massey Agriculture Student Centre.

MUARF board on campus
Members of the Massey University Agricultural Research Foundation gathered at the University last week as part of Ag and Hort week.

Awards and Appointments

Music awards success for CL Bob
Jazz group CL Bob stunned themselves last week by picking up the Best Jazz Album award with Stereoscope in the Tuis.

New Mäori adviser appointed
Nick Roskruge has been appointed to a new role of Kai-Arahi Mäori Adviser for the College of Sciences.

Recognition for arbitrator
Massey-trained arbitrators have just secured further evidence their education is of the highest international standard.

Top scholars rewarded
Reaching the top of academia is reward enough for Massey’s brightest scholars but to sweeten the deal, the Department of Management gave away $12,000 worth of prizes this year.

‘Nudge along’ for design students
Melanie Foot and Ben Paton are this year’s joint recipients of the Macdonald Scholarship for industrial design students.

Landcare Research recognised the work of four students in this year’s Manaaki Whenua scholarship awards.