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'You're not actually living life': benefit recipients suffer increased hardship during Covid

20 April 2021

Covid-19 exacerbated existing levels of material and emotional hardship for people on low core benefit rates, a new study has found.
Schools - where creativity goes to die

19 April 2021

Opinion: These are post-normal times: nothing will be "normal" again. Replanting creativity in schools could be what we need to survive, writes Peter O'Connor.
Rainbow youth still facing stigma and stress, but positive signs: new findings

16 April 2021

Despite progress, higher rates of stigma and discrimination, as well as mental health challenges, have been reported by New Zealand LGBTQ+ students, new analysis shows.
2021 Kupe Leadership Scholars announced

30 March 2021

Celebrating the 17 exceptional students awarded prestigious Kupe Scholarships.
Professor Carol Mutch: teaching by heart

25 March 2021

The vital role of schools in disaster response and recovery has been the research focus of Professor Carol Mutch, who gave her inaugural lecture at Epsom recently.
A side of knowledge with your beer?

23 March 2021

Aucklanders wanting to make the most of Aotearoa New Zealand’s freedom to socialise and to keep abreast of the latest thinking from some of this country’s leading academics have their chance on 20 April.
Kupe Scholarship: mana and joy for student teacher and whānau

11 March 2021

A Kupe Scholarship worth over $22,000 is helping Tai Tokerau teaching student Keona Campbell fulfil her ultimate goals: to bring te ao Māori into the mainstream curriculum and to find ways to best support kids from low socio-economic groups.
Would you have been ready for a tsunami?

10 March 2021

Opinion: In an emergency we can't wait for civil defence to come to the rescue. It's important to have your own emergency plans in place, writes Carol Mutch.
City kids in urban nature: so much to teach and learn

3 March 2021

The widely held assumption that city children have lost their connection to nature is being challenged by experts in the field.
Before we introduce vaccine passports, we need to know how they'll be used

2 March 2021

Opinion: Air New Zealand is to trial digital 'vaccine passports' on trans-Tasman routes in April, but there are some serious things to consider before we adopt them, writes Tim Dare.
So we’re in lockdown again: pick up those needles

1 March 2021

Knitting isn’t just good for your wardrobe – student Mei Gillespie reckons it's a great distraction in lockdown.
Subversion from inside the closet: gay academics in China

23 February 2021

Gay male academics in China find ways of living authentically while also appearing to conform in a society often openly hostile to homosexuality, a new study has found.

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