title: Enhancing access to experiential learning in a science and technology degree programme

authors: Coll, Richard K.

subjects: experiential learning

abstract: The research reported in this work concerned access to experiential learning offered in the form of work-based learning in a science and technology degree programme. The work-based learning comprises work placements within science and technology institutions relevant to the student's discipline of academic study. Access to work placements was enhanced by improving student performance in pre-placement interviews and the study comprised the administration of an intervention, namely the use of trial interviews, to improve performance in pre-placement interviews. The study resulted in the development of a model for trial interviews based on models of competency identified in the literature and by examination of documentation from a variety of multi-national organisations. The data suggests that the students perceive trial interviews enhance performance during pre-placement interviews.

text: Enhancing access to experiential learning in a science and technology degree programme The research reported in this work concerned access to experiential learning offered in the form of work-based learning in a science and technology degree programme. The work-based learning comprises work placements within science and technology institutions relevant to the student's discipline of academic study. Access to work placements was enhanced by improving student performance in pre-placement interviews and the study comprised the administration of an intervention, namely the use of trial interviews, to improve performance in pre-placement interviews. The study resulted in the development of a model for trial interviews based on models of competency identified in the literature and by examination of documentation from a variety of multi-national organisations. The data suggests that the students perceive trial interviews enhance performance during pre-placement interviews.

year: 2002

title: Solicitors’ personal undertakings for taxation obligations and the implications for solicitors: the New Zealand experience

authors: Manyam, Joel

subjects: law

abstract: The Commissioner of Inland Revenue (the Commissioner) is an officer of the Crown, charged by statute with the function of care and management of taxes on behalf of the Crown.
In carrying out his statutory function of collecting taxation revenue, the Commissioner is legally obliged to fulfil this role by collecting over time the highest net revenue that is practicable within the law, in relation to the resources available, the importance of promoting taxpayer compliance and the compliance cost of taxpayers. It is pursuant to the exercise of this statutory discretion that the Commissioner is authorised to enter arrangements with taxpayers or their agents for the eventual payment of taxation indebtedness. Such arrangements may include agreements between the Commissioner and taxpayer for the payment of taxation debts by instalments. Worth noting however, is that the Commissioner has recently demonstrated a willingness, not only to accept solicitors’ personal undertakings for the payment of tax debts, but to enforce them when solicitors have chosen to dishonour them.

text: Solicitors’ personal undertakings for taxation obligations and the implications for solicitors: the New Zealand experience The Commissioner of Inland Revenue (the Commissioner) is an officer of the Crown, charged by statute with the function of care and management of taxes on behalf of the Crown.
In carrying out his statutory function of collecting taxation revenue, the Commissioner is legally obliged to fulfil this role by collecting over time the highest net revenue that is practicable within the law, in relation to the resources available, the importance of promoting taxpayer compliance and the compliance cost of taxpayers. It is pursuant to the exercise of this statutory discretion that the Commissioner is authorised to enter arrangements with taxpayers or their agents for the eventual payment of taxation indebtedness. Such arrangements may include agreements between the Commissioner and taxpayer for the payment of taxation debts by instalments. Worth noting however, is that the Commissioner has recently demonstrated a willingness, not only to accept solicitors’ personal undertakings for the payment of tax debts, but to enforce them when solicitors have chosen to dishonour them.

year: 2011

title: "Everything has shaped you": Contributors to young Māori university students' ability to flourish

authors: Major, Darcie Ngahuia

subjects: Maori

abstract: There are many disparities when considering the health and wellbeing of Māori in Aotearoa today, and the education sector is no different, with Māori less likely to leave school with level 2 certificate or higher compared with non-Māori.  In response to the deficit orientated research on Māori and education, my thesis explores those factors contributing to young Māori tertiary students flourishing. My research includes five students from the University of Waikato who were between the ages of 17-24 years. A multi-method qualitative approach was utilised while engaging a Kaupapa Māori research framework. Participants were found to have a range of interconnected factors which contribute to their ability to flourish both inside and outside of the university.  Of particular importance to my participants was relational connectedness or whanaungatanga within and outside of the tertiary environment, landscapes which offered multiple forms of care, and notions of both collective and individual motivation. Some of the challenges experienced by my participants included a sense of socio-cultural isolation, the minimal inclusion of Māori worldviews and perspectives within the general curriculum, and the personal stress of responding to negative stereotypes of Maori as generally unproductive members of society. Flourishing for my participants is therefore multi-layered, and recognises the interconnected nature of health and wellbeing.

text: "Everything has shaped you": Contributors to young Māori university students' ability to flourish There are many disparities when considering the health and wellbeing of Māori in Aotearoa today, and the education sector is no different, with Māori less likely to leave school with level 2 certificate or higher compared with non-Māori.  In response to the deficit orientated research on Māori and education, my thesis explores those factors contributing to young Māori tertiary students flourishing. My research includes five students from the University of Waikato who were between the ages of 17-24 years. A multi-method qualitative approach was utilised while engaging a Kaupapa Māori research framework. Participants were found to have a range of interconnected factors which contribute to their ability to flourish both inside and outside of the university.  Of particular importance to my participants was relational connectedness or whanaungatanga within and outside of the tertiary environment, landscapes which offered multiple forms of care, and notions of both collective and individual motivation. Some of the challenges experienced by my participants included a sense of socio-cultural isolation, the minimal inclusion of Māori worldviews and perspectives within the general curriculum, and the personal stress of responding to negative stereotypes of Maori as generally unproductive members of society. Flourishing for my participants is therefore multi-layered, and recognises the interconnected nature of health and wellbeing.

year: 2017