Tag: World Education News

There is considerable support from New Zealanders for government to take policy action to reduce people’s exposure to alcohol and dietary cancer risk factors in their environment, new research from the University of Otago shows.

Adults’ attitudes towards children have changed to ‘fortunate’, ‘tech savvy’ and ‘honest’ and less ‘selfish’, ‘lazy’ or ‘spoilt’ according to ground-breaking new research released today.

The School of Agriculture and Environment has named its top students of the year at their annual Agriculture, Horticulture and Environmental Science Awards Dinner last week.

Australian researchers have developed cutting-edge technology known as “acoustic touch” that helps people ‘see’ using sound.

A job working on the ocean or at the coast is often considered a dream role for emerging scientists, but for women the reality can be very different compared to their male colleagues.

In what may be a first for a New Zealand based lawyer, Peter Watts KC has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Law from Oxford University.

Professor Davies’ research focuses on population growth, distribution and patterns of demographic change in Australia.

Maureen Robinson, one of the first women in the whisky industry to hold the prestigious title of Master Blender, is one of five people to receive an honorary degree from the University of Strathclyde.

Harnessing new advances in genomic surveillance technology could help detect the rise of deadly ‘superbugs’.

Researchers at the University of Toronto and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a way to create new atomically thin versions of quasicrystals...