Breadcrumbs List.
Education and society
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Multi-million dollar collaboration in cyber security
17 March 2020
The University of Auckland will host a major multi-million dollar trans-Tasman collaboration in cyber security aimed at ensuring both countries have the best possible solutions to existing and future cyber-enabled threats.
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Morphine change could lead to more heroin overdoses
13 March 2020
A change in the supply of pharmaceutical morphine could inadvertently lead to more overdoses by people who inject opioids such as morphine and heroin, a University of Auckland expert warns.
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Learning to resolve international disputes
12 March 2020
Students from the Auckland Law School have been in the Czech Republic this month, participating in the European Friendly Moot Competition.
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Graduate's challenge: let's reimagine education in Aotearoa
6 March 2020
When Maia Hetaraka walked across the stage yesterday at the University of Auckland’s Tai Tokerau graduation, she was completing a long and challenging journey.
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How much does kindness matter in politics?
5 March 2020
Green MP and Faculty of Arts alumna Chlöe Swarbrick and Canadian professor Michael Orsini join a public panel discussion on the ways kindness and emotion can work in politics and policy.
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The implications of SkyCity’s cancelled speaker
28 February 2020
Opinion: Tim Dare examines what SkyCity's 'de-platforming' of controversial speaker, Princeton Philosophy Professor Peter Singer, might mean for free speech.
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Role of statistics and computing in public and social policy
27 February 2020
While corporations are collecting and mining huge amounts of data in order to make better consumers of us all, public organisations are also collecting vast quantities of data for administrative and policy purposes.
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Low HIV infections in drug-users point to needle exchange success
27 February 2020
New Zealand has avoided the high HIV rates seen among high-risk groups in other countries, a new study shows.
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A Chinese international student’s plea to NZ
27 February 2020
Opinion: An international student grapples with how she might return to NZ amid the coronavirus outbreak, and what challenges she will face if she makes it back.
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Child protection bureaucracy out of control
27 February 2020
Opinion: The managerial tail has been wagging the dog in child protection for too long – in the case of the current OT we have reached new heights, writes Ian Hyslop.
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How we pre-package victims of domestic violence
26 February 2020
Opinion: A jury didn't accept an abused woman killed her partner in self-defence. Julia Tolmie asks what this says about attitudes to women in violent relationships.
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Teaching the University’s ‘youngest students’ wins national award
25 February 2020
She isn’t based in a classroom, yet the winner of a national teaching award is making a big impact on children’s learning.