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“AI is constantly incorrect, environmentally damaging and such a stupid way of learning. I started studying so I could be taught by professionals, not a robot telling me slop gathered from hundreds of places on the internet,” the student said.
“The power of the data analysis science stuff, is you can get people to agree on what's happening and once you've done that, they can all start talking about how to solve the problem,” he says.
“It's a way of having a discussion that helps bring people together.
The Government is promising that a relaxation of gene technology regulations will provide economic growth for the country, but critics fear the new bill is too loose and a step too far.
“It is using a bulldozer to crack a nut,” Jack Heinemann, professor of genetics at the University of Canterbury, tells The Detail.
newsroom.co.nz 
Fear is spreading across the sector the tertiary education funding boost for universities secured in the 2023 Budget, which equated to $64 million a year, could be cut for next year.
www.odt.co.nz 
It takes more than eight years since starting to study for a nurse to have higher cumulative earnings than someone who worked a minimum wage job during that time and up to 12 years for a social worker. The financial challenges of lengthy unpaid placements, along with the potentially decade-long wait to see the financial rewards of these degrees, make it particularly difficult for individuals with dependents and older people looking to retrain to enter these professions.
The Try-A-Trade courses by the Ministry of Social Development, Te Ati Awa, and Weltec give trainees who are over 18, the chance to try out a new career - seven different trades over seven weeks.
www.rnz.co.nz 
So far so good. But the elephant in the room, rate-limiting step in New Zealand is having enough clinical placements – the opportunity for all senior students (medical, nursing, physio etc) to work supervised one-on-one alongside experienced clinicians in multiple areas, seeing many patients and being involved in their clinical care.
No amount of high/low fidelity simulation, AI-generated cases, AI-diagnostic algorithms (all already in use) can replace this learning; the art of connecting with different people with diverse needs on their terms to develop trusting, beneficial doctor-patient, tākuta-whānau relationships is primarily learned on the job.
In an open letter to Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Tertiary Education Minister Penny Simmonds, Whanau warned that its closure could drain Wellington’s talent pool, crippling the capital’s $2.1 billion creative industry.
The information was included in an application for non-profit status in the United States in 2023, and included salaries for the vice-chancellor Dawn Freshwater, whose salary range was regularly reported in the university's annual report, but also for other senior staff.
www.rnz.co.nz 
Act New Zealand voiced fears a business case for the University of Waikato’s proposed new medical school could become a "tick-box exercise", documents reveal.
www.odt.co.nz 
“I am lucky to work in a role which brings together my passion for animals, science and wellbeing. The science allows us to look at things in new ways while also giving back to farmers, the sector and the wider country, which is important to me,” said Hall.
www.farmersweekly.co.nz 
“Years of underfunding in long-term agricultural science and a competitive funding model have contributed to the current situation. In a country of New Zealand’s size, science teams should collaborate, not compete,” they wrote, adding that they were convening a meeting of stakeholders to come up with a new direction for parasitology research.
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