title: Student engagement: Potential causes and solutions

authors: Weijers, Dan M.

abstract: I will briefly discuss what I take to be some potential causes and solutions to student disengagement at the University of Waikato. As educators responsible to our students, our employers, and taxpayers, we are facing pressures from multiple directions. We face pressure to increase pass rates and flexible learning options, while ensuring students achieve learning outcomes and become work-ready. Perhaps due to having too many options and no conscious priorities, combined with an ever increasing array of distractions, students are not making time to take study seriously. And, for the most part, we are enabling them to do that. A regular part of our jobs has become chasing students up because they don't come to class, they miss deadlines, or they haven't even taken the time to look at the paper outline. I think that a university-wide initiative to structure our courses more effectively, have higher expectations of students, and educate students about "how to do university" could reinvigorate the student body and improve outcomes for students, the university, and taxpayers.

text: Student engagement: Potential causes and solutions I will briefly discuss what I take to be some potential causes and solutions to student disengagement at the University of Waikato. As educators responsible to our students, our employers, and taxpayers, we are facing pressures from multiple directions. We face pressure to increase pass rates and flexible learning options, while ensuring students achieve learning outcomes and become work-ready. Perhaps due to having too many options and no conscious priorities, combined with an ever increasing array of distractions, students are not making time to take study seriously. And, for the most part, we are enabling them to do that. A regular part of our jobs has become chasing students up because they don't come to class, they miss deadlines, or they haven't even taken the time to look at the paper outline. I think that a university-wide initiative to structure our courses more effectively, have higher expectations of students, and educate students about "how to do university" could reinvigorate the student body and improve outcomes for students, the university, and taxpayers.

year: 2017

title: Transition formulae for ranks of abelian varieties

authors: Delbourgo, Daniel

abstract: Let A/k denote an abelian variety defined over a number field k with good ordinary reduction at all primes above p, and let K∞ =∪n≥1 Kn be a p-adic Lie extension of k containing the cyclotomic Zp-extension. We use K-theory to find recurrence relations for the λ-invariant at each σ-component of the Selmer group over K∞, where σ : Gk → GL(V ). This provides upper bounds on the Mordell-Weil rank for A(Kn) as n → ∞ whenever G∞ = Gal(K∞/k) has dimension at most 3.

text: Transition formulae for ranks of abelian varieties Let A/k denote an abelian variety defined over a number field k with good ordinary reduction at all primes above p, and let K∞ =∪n≥1 Kn be a p-adic Lie extension of k containing the cyclotomic Zp-extension. We use K-theory to find recurrence relations for the λ-invariant at each σ-component of the Selmer group over K∞, where σ : Gk → GL(V ). This provides upper bounds on the Mordell-Weil rank for A(Kn) as n → ∞ whenever G∞ = Gal(K∞/k) has dimension at most 3.

year: 2015

title: End-user informed demographic projections for Hamilton up to 2041

authors: Cameron, Michael Patrick

subjects: cohort component model

abstract: This report provides a set of projections of the population of Hamilton City and the larger Hamilton Zone. The projections have been calculated by means of the cohort component model. The projections can be considered alongside official Statistics New Zealand projections, but differ from the latter in terms of assumptions made about net migration. These assumptions constitute a number of scenarios that were informed by the Hamilton City Council and local consultations. These scenarios are linked to the potential impact of a number of economic development activities. The report also contains projections of the number of households, the labour force and two ethnic groups: Māori and New Zealand Europeans. In addition, a dwellings-based methodology is used to produce small area (Census Area Unit) projections. Across the scenarios, Hamilton City’s projected population growth over the next two decades ranges from 13.8 percent to 36.0 percent. This is between 1.5 to 12.2 percentage points higher than the corresponding projected national growth.

text: End-user informed demographic projections for Hamilton up to 2041 This report provides a set of projections of the population of Hamilton City and the larger Hamilton Zone. The projections have been calculated by means of the cohort component model. The projections can be considered alongside official Statistics New Zealand projections, but differ from the latter in terms of assumptions made about net migration. These assumptions constitute a number of scenarios that were informed by the Hamilton City Council and local consultations. These scenarios are linked to the potential impact of a number of economic development activities. The report also contains projections of the number of households, the labour force and two ethnic groups: Māori and New Zealand Europeans. In addition, a dwellings-based methodology is used to produce small area (Census Area Unit) projections. Across the scenarios, Hamilton City’s projected population growth over the next two decades ranges from 13.8 percent to 36.0 percent. This is between 1.5 to 12.2 percentage points higher than the corresponding projected national growth.

year: 2007-12