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- Insurance Varied and Interesting
- 18th November 2008
New Benfield Link Foundation Reinsurance Scholar, Marcus Smith, has just taken up his new scholarship in London's reinsurance market. Find out what he and the new Cranfield NZ Alumni scholar Scott Riddle are looking forward to in the latest edition of the Link newsletter. Download: Link13-_web.pdf (2.22 MB)
- Agricultural Emissions Focus for Fellow
- 26th June 2008
Winner of the 2008 NZ-UK Link Foundation Rural Journalist Fellowship, Tim Fulton, has left for his whirlwind tour of the UK where he will examine perceptions of food miles and what effect this will have on New Zealand and British agriculture and retailing and to look at the management of agricultural emissions. For news about other Fellows see The Wellington Cathedral Choir Tour of the UK in July, Top UK Business School Offers $100,000 Scholarship, Helen Lear's Curtain Call in Edinburgh and Raising Film's Profile in the Digital Age.
Read all about it in issue 12 of The Link.
Download: Link12-web.pdf (453.5 KB)
- NZ Art Auction for Endangered NZ Bird
- 18th June 2008
The New Zealand Society is pleased to announce in association with the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) an auction, in London on 10th October 2008, of New Zealand art to raise funds for The New Zealand Shore Plover Appeal. - Fulton to look at food miles and carbon foot-printing
- 22nd April 2008
Young Canterbury-based agricultural journalist, Tim Fulton, is heading off to the UK in June to investigate the perception and reality of food miles for British farmers, retailers and consumers.
Fulton is the recipient of the 2007-08 NZ-UK Link Foundation Rural Journalist Travel Fellowship (the Link Rural Travel Fellowship), worth $5,000. This award marks the opening of 50th anniversary celebrations for the New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists & Communicators this year that will culminate in a special national conference for the Guild in Wellington in October.
- Exciting NZ-UK Outcome for Kotuku
- 17th March 2008
A combined Kotuku Tiffin Choir tour of New Zealand in 2009 is the exciting outcome of the Wellington-based Kotuku Choir's recent tour to the UK, which was supported by the NZ-UK Link Foundation. Read all about it and more in the latest issue of The Link newsletter (issue 12). Download: Link11-web.pdf (2.21 MB)
- Standards Rising Year After Year
- 8th November 2007
Standards are rising year after year in the NZ-UK Link Foundation's Culinary Exchange, says Peter Gordon celebrity chef and food guru and the inspiration behind the award. With a new Kiwi winner and - at the time of writing - the announcement of the 2007 British winner pending, the Exchange is five years old and growing fast. The latest news about that award and much more is available in the latest edition of The Link, the Foundation's newsletter. Download: Link_10_-_web.pdf (632.13 KB)
- Continuing Globalisation of Higher Education
- 15th July 2007
Calling on his huge experience as a research scientist, vice-chancellor of three universities and head of funding councils, Sir Graeme Davies, Vice Chancellor of London University and one the brightest stars of the British/NZ education scene, gave a riveting and insightful Annual Link lecture on 19th June 2007.Download: Link_Lecture_2007_-_Sir_Graeme_Davies_speechnotes.pdf (27.98 KB)
- Outstanding Young Executives Compete To Win Scholarship
- 3rd July 2007
Outstanding young business executives in New Zealand have been competing for the opportunity to win a new scholarship worth up to $100,000, supported by the NZ-UK Link Foundation, to study for an MBA at the world-class Cranfield School of Management in England. Find out more about this and other NZ-UK links, alongside welcoming the new Chairman of the NZ Management Committee, Mark Horton, and NZ Executive Officer Tony Fryer in the latest edition of The Link (9), which has just been published.Download: Link_9_-_web_1.pdf (512.38 KB)
- New Vice-Patron for Link
- 28th February 2007
The new Governor-General of New Zealand, His Excellency the Honourable Anand Satyanand PCNZM has agreed to become the new Vice-Patron for the NZ-UK Link Foundation.
- New Instrumental Arrangement
- 26th February 2007
A brand new new £11,000 music award, the Elman Poole Music Fellowship, has just been announced by the NZ-UK Link Foundation. Leah Johnston is the first up and coming New Zealand instrumentalist selected by Southern Sinfonia in Dunedin, New Zealand, to play with the renowned London orchestra, the South Bank Sinfonia.
Download: Leah_Bio_1.pdf (24.32 KB)