Category: Education

Venkat Raman –  venkat@indiannewslink.co.nz If you think that the digital age has buried the good old stuffs like gramophone records, video cassettes and radio sets, don’t you believe it. All of them would be back in demand sooner or later, just as vinyl records have done. Indeed, people are increasingly realising the value of those analogue days when music had…

Dr Leonel Alvarado – Sharing and comparing experiences of colonialism, indigenous language revitalisation and art will be the focus for a group of New Zealand and Colombian students and academics, thanks to a Prime Minister’s Scholarship. A group of Massey University students will forge links with indigenous students of Colombia later this year when they showcase innovative Te Reo Maori…

Staff Reporter info@indiannewslink.co.nz The New Zealand Association of Fiji Teachers (NZAFT) has appealed to philanthropists and members of the Indian community for financial and other support in providing support to needy school children in New Zealand and Fiji. Association President Chandra Prakash has also appealed to teachers in New Zealand to identify needy students from the schools with which they…

Sourced Content People watching televised sport are exposed to high rates of alcohol marketing and sponsorship says a report published in the latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal published on January 13, 2017. The report, based on a survey of televised sports during the 2014-2015 summer season, found that people watching these programmes were exposed to 1.6-3.8 alcohol…

Supplied Content (Edited) Teenagers often do not understand what is good for them. It is the same story with adults. A unique science education programme developed in New Zealand is helping teenagers to gain the knowledge and tools to enable them to realise what is good for them and their communities. The results are exciting. More than 40,000 intermediate and…

Staff Reporter –  info@indiannewslink.co.nz Jesus said, “If you want to come to the Kingdom of God, ‘be like a child.” Creativity has many angles. It is integral in most part of existence but because of the critical weave of society, a child gets conditioned early in life. Therefore, it becomes difficult to know at a later stage what a child’s…

Olivia Chitty –  Young fashion designer Olivia Chitty has developed a garment design system that could offer people affordable ethical clothing options by creating new looks from existing clothes. She developed her Design for Disassembly system for her fourth-year project for Massey University’s Bachelor of Design (fashion) degree. The following is her account: It is a design process that provides…

Supplied Content – Several generations of journalists swapped scoops and stories – on and off the record – at the 50th anniversary reunion of the Massey University School of Journalism on November 26, 2016. Members of the original class of 1966 – when newspaper stories were written on manual ink and ribbon typewriters and newsrooms were full of cigarette smoke…

Dr Andrew Colarik –  New Zealanders need to understand better the risks of prioritising user features over security when it comes to the many internet-connected devices that we use. I discussed the many ways in which our personal, company and national security information can be extracted and used against us at the Massey University Future NZ Forum on Cyber Security…

Sourced Content –  A Massey University health scientist hopes to create more awareness about the prevalence, diagnosis and treatment for rare sexually transmitted infections in New Zealand. College of Health Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology Dr Collette Bromhead presented her work at the New Zealand Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Conference in Wellington on November 10, 2016. The conference…