Ako Aotearoa News

At the end of last year, Ako Aotearoa signed an agreement with Ralph Springett, president of Massey University’s Extramural Stude

As part of the inaugural round of our 2008 National Project Fund, three Doctoral Scholarships were awarded to build research capability and capacity in the area of tertiary teaching and learning.

From 4 to 6 March Ako Aotearoa and eight other New Zealand organisations in a virtual expo incorporated in the iCTLT (International Conference on Learning Expo 2010, underway in Singapore.

Last Friday the Associate Minister for Education, Hon Dr Pita R Sharples, launched Hei Tauira, an Ako Aotearoa publication that provides a guide to the key factors to be considered in fostering success for Māori in tertiary settings.

Last week Academy of Tertiary Teaching Excellence member Paul Denny ran two workshops in Dunedin to demonstrat

Professor Carl Wieman, a leading science educator and Nobel Prize laureate for physics in 2001, was hosted by Ako Aotearoa during his recent visit to New Zealand

The latest news from national office and regional hub activities are all in the final issue of our newsletter for the year. Features include:

The Excellence booklet, profiling the 2009 Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award recipients, is now available.

We are honoured to have the following people in the Ako Aotearoa Pacific Peoples' Caucus(pictured here at the second meeting in late November, from