University of New Zealand
The University of New Zealand (1870-1961) (in Maori : Te Wananga o Aotearoa ) was an organization established by law under which all of New Zealand's academic institutions were brought together.
prehistory
The history of the University of New Zealand has been marked by provincial jealousies and rivalries at the academic level within the educational policy class of its time.
A good 25 years after the official founding of New Zealand and the move of Parliament from Auckland to Wellington in 1865, the discussion about founding a university of one's own spread. In 1868, a University Foundation Act was finally passed, which introduced eight scholarships for study in Great Britain (none of which were ever used) and provided a state foundation for a future university in the colony itself. One would have liked to see the first university in the country in Wellington.
The foundation regulation came in very handy for the Scottish educated middle class in Dunedin in the south of the country. Since education was very important according to Scottish tradition and, beginning with the gold rush in Otago from 1861, there was also plenty of money in the coffers by chance, a foundation was set up , given it plenty of land and on this basis founded New Zealand's first and independent university in 1869 , the University of Otago .
founding
Always shaken by the idiosyncrasy of the South and now surprised, Wellington tried to get the educational "outliers" under control again. In 1870, because the university in Wellington was not yet ready, the University of New Zealand was quickly established by law with the New Zealand University Act .
The University of Otago was subordinated to the University of New Zealand, of which only the name previously existed, as a college and then began teaching in Dunedin in 1871 with a grand opening ceremony. In order not to be inferior, a university college was founded in Christchurch , Canterbury in 1873 . After long disputes and discussions about the respective different roles, another New Zealand University Act 1874 stipulated that the University of New Zealand would not have its own teaching organization, but should only perform leading and auditing functions as an umbrella organization.
In 1882 and 1897, the Auckland University College Act and the Victoria University College Act, two more educational institutions, came under the umbrella of the University of New Zealand.
After several further legislative changes in the following years, the University of New Zealand was finally given up in 1961 in favor of a federal university teaching company. With the Universities Act of 1961, all university colleges were given university status and the University of Otago regained its independence.
However, the scramble between those responsible for the educational institutions has not stopped, as shown by the public debate between the University of Auckland and the University of Otago in 2007 over the assessment of being the best performance-based research university.
See also
literature
- Victoria University of Wellington 1899 ~ 1999 A History . Victoria University Press , Wellington 1999, The college is founded , p. 11–29 (English, online [accessed February 11, 2018]).
- Leonard John Wild : Education, University - University of New Zealand . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed February 11, 2018]).
Web links
- New Zealand's universities all rank in top 100 in subject rankings . Universities New Zealand, April 29, 2015,accessed February 8, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Performance-Based Research Fund - Evaluating Research Excellence - The 2006 Assessment . (PDF 2.4 MB) Tertiary Education Commission , 2006, archived from the original on April 16, 2010 ; accessed on February 11, 2018 (English, original website cannot be accessed due to SSL_ERROR_UNRECOGNIZED_NAME_ALERT).
- ^ Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) . University of Otago , accessed July 16, 2008 .