Forget the pimped-up absurdity of the “New Zealand is one of the world’s happiest countries” spin. Everyone who’s ever lived in New Zealand knows it has some of the OECD’s worst rates for preventable child deaths, youth suicide, crime, homeless people, poverty, high property prices, children living in poverty, mental illness, family violence, and substance…
Today we’d like to bring to your attention an excellent blog called Writehanded and its commentary on New Zealand’s environmental record. It is another site that is busting some of New Zealand’s self generated myths and raising awareness within New Zealand of some of the propaganda that’s promulgated about the country.. The Writehanded author talks…
This is something of a departure for E2NZ, a variation of the Migrant Tales theme if you like. Today we look at the situation of international students in New Zealand. The international student industry in New Zealand is a lucrative one. International students are worth $2 billion annually to the New Zealand economy. “If you…
Most of New Zealand’s universities have continue to slide further down a major international league table after again failing to be placed in the world’s top 50 universities. The QS World University Rankings 2010/2011 have just been published. No New Zealand university made it to the top 50 and only one was placed in the…
An yellow alert was recently issued to aviation following increased signs of activity at Mount Ruapehu – one of New Zealand’s active volcanoes. Read “Mount Ruapehu Heating Up” Today a press release was issued by Massey University in which it was revealed that a real-time doppler radar system is to be installed at the volcano…
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