The doyen of farm management education and research in New Zealand, Sir James Douglas Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Farm Management at Lincoln University, died in Christchurch on Friday 19 February aged 84.

Auckland University of Technology Vice-Chancellor Derek McCormack has been appointed for a two-year term as chair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee, the body that represents the interests of the country's eight universities.

The 2025 Taskforce report aimed at increasing the country's productivity contains recommendations that could potentially assist universities in maximising their contribution to closing the income gap with Australia.

Universities have welcomed the opportunity to influence the Government's priorities for research, science and technology by responding to the just-released feedback document.

Thank you for having shown us the truth," wrote a Lincoln University student in the Visitors' Book at the end of a busy day in Wellington.

Lincoln University won the 2009 Champion Canterbury ACC Workplace Safety Award at the seventh annual Champion Canterbury Awards held in the Christchurch Convention Centre last night. (24 Sept.)

The Vice-Chancellor of Lincoln University has apologised for any offence caused by the actions of a few students during a Halls of Residence event, Oktoberfest.

A publication to mark the 50th anniversary of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) was launched at a recent reception at Parliament Buildings hosted by the Speaker, the Hon Dr Lockwood Smith, in association with the NZVCC.

Student representatives from Universities, Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics around the country are gathering in Christchurch this week for the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations (NZUSA) third national conference of the year, to be held on the 27-30 August at Lincoln University.

11 AUGUST 2009 - Today AgResearch and Lincoln University announced their intent to develop a formal joint venture to secure many of the benefits identified in their previously proposed merger.