University News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on June 17, 2025.
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Modernising Early Childhood Education funding
Source: New Zealand Government Associate Education Minister David Seymour has today announced an Early Childhood Education (ECE) Funding Review to ensure the funding system is simple, fair, and gets value for money. Mr Seymour has established an ECE Funding Review Ministerial Advisory Group (MAG), chaired by Linda Meade to carry out this review. It will report […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: University Research – Climate change linked to dangerous sleep apnea – Flinders
Source: Flinders University Sleep apnea will become more common and more severe due to global warming, leading to increased health and economic burdens across the globe, warn Flinders University sleep experts. A new study, published in leading journal, Nature Communications, found that rising temperatures increase the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and that under the most […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Gordon Wilson Flats’ heritage protection goneburger
Source: New Zealand Government The derelict and unsafe Gordon Wilson Flats in Wellington will lose its protected heritage status and become eligible for demolition through an amendment to the Resource Management Act (RMA) in the coming weeks, RMA Reform and Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “The Gordon Wilson Flats were used as social housing until […]
MIL-Evening Report: Why does my phone sometimes not ring when people call? A communications expert explains
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jairo Gutierrez, Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology Tada Images There’s a certain feeling I get in the pit of my stomach when I’m waiting for an important call to come through. You know the type – maybe a call from your […]
MIL-Evening Report: Wetland restoration is seen as sunk cost – but new research shows why it should be considered an investment
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wei Yang, Senior Scientist in Environmental Economics, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Shutterstock/Wirestock Creators As extreme weather intensifies globally, governments are seeking nature-based solutions that deliver both climate and economic benefits. The restoration of wetlands is an often overlooked opportunity. As our recent study shows, […]
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: £250m for green aerospace projects ahead of Industrial Strategy
Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments Press release £250m for green aerospace projects ahead of Industrial Strategy UK aerospace will be boosted by more than £250m funding for cutting-edge aerospace tech projects to drive greener air travel, ahead of the Paris Air Show. Government announces over £250m joint industrial investment with industry for […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Classroom creativity inspires
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia 12 May 2025 Challenging classrooms are producing fresh ideas as the new school year gets underway for the four teachers we will follow throughout 2025. Lilly Maynard Year 5–6 teacher, Ulverstone Primary School, Tasmania Year 5–6 teacherUlverstone Primary School, Tasmania For Lilly Maynard, now in her second year as a […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: New Chief Executive for Pharmac
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac’s Board has appointed a new Chief Executive to lead the organisation. Canadian Natalie McMurtry will join Pharmac on Monday 15 September after an extensive recruitment search within New Zealand and overseas. Board Chair Paula Bennett says Ms McMurtry brings significant front-line and health leadership experience to the Pharmac role. “The level of […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: EIT Emeritus Professor awarded OBE in King’s Birthday Honours
Source: Eastern Institute of Technology 5 minutes ago EIT Emeritus Professor (One Welfare) Nat Waran has been awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to equine welfare, research and education, in the United Kingdom’s King’s Birthday Honours list. The prestigious honour was announced on June 13 in the […]
MIL-OSI USA: Senator Collins Speaks at Northern Light Health Rural Dementia Training Program
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for Maine Susan Collins Published: June 13, 2025 Click HERE and HERE for individual photos. Orono, ME – Today, U.S. Senator Susan Collins delivered remarks at the Northern Light Health Maine Rural Dementia Training Program at the University of Maine. More than 100 medical professionals from across the state […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Reforms needed to help Pacific workers access millions in unclaimed superannuation
Source: 17 June 2025 Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme workers at Currency Creek. They’re joined by Dr Rob Whait from UniSA and Dr Connie Vitalie from WSU. Finance experts are calling on the Federal Government to make it easier for Pacific and Timor-Leste workers that come to Australia to access unclaimed superannuation once their […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest US holiday is confusing Americans
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Timothy Welbeck, Director of the Center for Anti-Racism, Temple University Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie Yates sit in a decorated buggy for Juneteenth 1908 in front of Houston’s Antioch Baptist Church. African American Library at The Gregory School, Houston Public Library The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated […]
MIL-Evening Report: Jaws at 50: a cinematic masterpiece – and an incredible piece of propaganda
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin Alexander, Senior Lecturer in Political Communications, Nottingham Trent University Jaws turns 50 on June 20. Last year, Quentin Tarantino called Stephen Spielberg’s film “possibly the greatest movie ever made”. Though he was quick to add that it isn’t the best film in terms of script, cinematography […]
MIL-Evening Report: Ancient termite poo reveals 120 million-year-old secrets of Australia’s polar forests
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alistair Evans, Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Witsawat.S/Shutterstock Imagine a lush forest with tree-ferns, their trunks capped by ribbon-like fronds. Conifers tower overhead, bearing triangular leaves almost sharp enough to pierce skin. Flowering plants are both small and rare. You’re standing in what is now […]
MIL-Evening Report: When new dads struggle, their kids’ health can suffer. Tackling mental distress early can help
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Delyse Hutchinson, Associate Professor, Clinical Psychologist, and NHMRC Leadership Fellow, SEED Centre for Lifespan Research, School of Psychology, Deakin University D-BASE/Getty In Australia, an estimated one in ten men experience mental health issues such as anxiety and depression before and after their child is born (the perinatal […]
MIL-Evening Report: Some students learning English can take at least 6 years to catch up to their peers. How can we support them better?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucy Lu, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney Rawpixel/ Getty Images About one quarter of Australian school students are learning English as an additional language or dialect. This means their first language or dialect is something other than English and they […]
MIL-OSI United Nations: Multimedia University – MMU Cyberjaya
Source: UNISDR Disaster Risk Reduction Mission University Telekom became known as Multimedia University (MMU) when TM, as the parent corporation, was given the enormous task of establishing a new campus in Cyberjaya that would supply the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) with superior quality knowledge workers. MIL OSI United Nations News –
MIL-OSI: Missouri Scholarship & Loan Foundation Celebrates Milestones for My Missouri (MyMO) Scholarship Promise
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) ST. LOUIS, June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MOHELA, a non-profit governmental corporation dedicated to helping the student loan borrowers it serves, proudly announces two major milestones through The Missouri Scholarship & Loan Foundation (MSLF). The Foundation, established by MOHELA in 2010, has selected its newest class of high school freshmen, the […]
MIL-OSI Russia: From an idea to a forum for 3,200 people: how HSE students are building the business environment of the future
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: State University Higher School of Economics – State University Higher School of Economics – On May 31, the Higher School of Economics hosted the fifth, anniversary Forum of the HSE Business Club — the largest student entrepreneurial event in the country. In five years, students have transformed it from a […]
MIL-OSI Global: Conflicted, disillusioned, disengaged: The unsettled center of Jewish student opinion after Oct. 7
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jonathan Krasner, Associate Professor of Jewish Education Research, Brandeis University Pro-Palestinian students pass the flag of Israel while walking out of commencement in protest at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 30, 2024. AP Photo/Charles Krupa As commencement season comes to a close, many campuses remain riven […]