One day you’ll see her name in lights – well that is her plan, anyway. Emily Rice has an impressive set of pipes and a passion to share her music with the world. The 20-year-old was one of six finalists in the University of Auckland’s songwriter of the year competition, held in late September.  She [...]

A new music students’ association at the University of Auckland is aiming to bring all branches of the School of Music together. Currently, the university’s Bachelor of Music (BMus) degree offers five different majors – three performance-oriented courses (jazz, pop and classical) as well as musicology and music composition. However, students from the different schools [...]

Two friends have won the University of Auckland’s The Drinking Pitch – a competition for the best campaign to encourage responsible drinking. Marketing students Susannah Cowan and Stephen Benson, both 21, won with their concept called The Scale, which encourages drinkers to think about how they will be perceived by their peers. Pernod Ricard New [...]

In New Zealand, we like to drink her vodka; we guzzle up her oil. We even eat fish sourced from Russian waters. But the writing is on the wall for the teaching of Russian language in New Zealand’s universities, with shrinking student numbers and disappearing departments. This is despite warming relations between the two countries. [...]

 Sixty-four per cent of students are against Budget cuts to postgraduate allowances, according to a survey of 100 students at the University of Auckland and AUT University. The government-funded student allowance pays up to $205 a week to single, childless people who are enrolled full-time at tertiary institutions. The Government announced its Zero Budget plans [...]

The pain, like electricity searing through his leg from his little toe with every step, meant some days he had to crawl just to reach the shower. He wanted to cut his foot off.  Reynald Castañeda, at just 23, had gout. It seems this condition, which is generally thought to affect the older, male and [...]

Two Auckland scientists are about to take a big step in their   research – using complex maths to help stroke victims recover. In two new studies from the University of Auckland, scientists have developed a mathematical equation – an algorithm – that can predict rehabilitation speed, while engineers created a video game to assist [...]

From July 21 to August 18, Muslims round the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan. But many New Zealanders are unaware of what Ramadan actually is. To most Kiwis, Ramadan is simply a month of fasting in which Muslims do not eat or drink from dawn to dusk.  The fasting is from sunrise to [...]

  University of Auckland students are compiling evidence to support allegations some were bashed and unlawfully arrested by police at the Blockade the Budget protest downtown last week. Student protesters say they are about to file a complaint to the Independent Police Conduct Authority about police behaviour they call unacceptable. The student group has a [...]