Massey University

All Black Aaron Cruden was presented with a $5000 Massey University study award at his homecoming in Palmerston North.

NZ’s entrepreneurial future looks promising following the results of the regional heat of the FedEx/ Junior Achievement International Trade Challenge (ITC) held at Massey University’s Albany Campus.

Six finalists will represent NZ in Bangkok from August 24th to 26th, 2011 and will be competing for the Asia Pacific champions’ title alongside seven other Asia Pacific countries, and their 42 representatives.

Fulbright New Zealand and the Cognition Institute have selected two researchers from different education sector branches for exchanges to the United States of America in 2011.

Ngaire Addis from Havelock North High School and Dr Veronica O’Toole from the University of Canterbury are the two recipients of Fulbright – Cognition Scholar Awards in Education Research for 2011, and will each spend several months in the US conducting research aimed at improving aspects of the schooling system in NZ.

Thirteen universities in Australia and NZ have selected Century of Social Sciences(TM), a superior and unique set of archival data (backfiles) covering ground breaking research in the social sciences back to 1900, from Thomson Reuters for their education and research needs.

The number of men studying to become secondary teachers at Massey University’s College of Education (CoE) has doubled providing an even split between men and women – an exciting development for a profession that has recently struggled to find gender balance in the classroom.