Julie Anne Genter A New Report shows how girls experience online harm differently than boys, and tailored prevention approaches are needed. The Report ‘Insights into digital harm: The online lives of New Zealand girls and boys,’ was launched on December 1, 2017. Focus Groups It covers young people’s experiences with digital harm and draws on insights from 12 focus groups from…
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Research to understand the Autonomic Nervous System Venkat Raman Do you know that almost every emotion activates your nervous system which in turn impacts on the functioning of the brain and other essential organs of your body? That was of course a simplistic question, but it illustrates the need to take cognisance of the importance of the nervous system. The…
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Chris Hipkins The Government has taken a big first step towards making tertiary education and training more affordable for all New Zealanders. The Government’s first 100 Days Programme includes introducing $50 a week boost to both student allowances and loan entitlements for living costs and making the first year of tertiary education fees-free from January 1, 2018. Today we are…
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Supplied Content Australian and Sri Lankan medical researchers have forged a new action plan to investigate the causes of a particular form of chronic kidney disease. The plan was formed at the first workshop held since the two countries agreed to join forces to fight the illness that kills roughly 1500 Sri Lankans every year. ANSTO sent a delegation of…
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Peter Dunne Politician and commentator Austin Mitchell once described the New Zealand education system as “a complex balance of groups, so nicely deadlocked as to make change impossible.” Undoubtedly accurate, it was a description of educational administration at the time. It was also a description that could be applied, just as accurately, to our current health system. Complex Balance The…
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Chris Hipkins Students are a step closer to a more affordable future as the new government fast-tracks work on its free-fees tertiary education promise. Cabinet has given the go-ahead for detailed implementation planning for the introduction of one year of fees-free tertiary education and a $50 a week boost to student allowances and loan entitlements. Officials have already started work…
Read MoreSupplied Content The way depression is diagnosed and treated needs a major overhaul, authors of a new review article in the Scientific Journal ‘Brain, Behavior, and Immunity,’ have said. This is because current treatment of depression is ineffective and lacks a plausible, coherent theoretical basis, they claimed. A new theory for depression and its treatment is proposed in the article…
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Neha Mokashi “Being a student is a challenge, being an international student poses an even bigger challenge. I believe that student life in my home country is easy, but being a student by yourself in a different country can be hard.” says Madhav Kapur in his article on the New Zealand government’s ‘Study in New Zealand’ website. As an individual…
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New scientific discovery stirs the scientific community Sourced Content For the first time, scientists have measured the violent death spiral of two dense neutron stars via gravitational waves. This new discovery from the LIGO-Virgo collaboration comes weeks after the detection of gravitational waves won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. The event on August 17, 2017 was detected by about…
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University of Auckland announces Velocity 100k Challenge Winners Supplied Content A new surgical stitching device is being developed in New Zealand that could prevent complications during the surgical process and even save lives by saving time. The team behind ‘Suture Future,’ made up of University of Auckland Medical students Joevy Lim and Adrian Ng, Commerce/Arts student Rui Han Yeu and…
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