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General Information 407 Section D General Information Victoria University of Wellington (descriptive note) 409 The Victoria University of Wellington Act 1961 411 University Services and Facilities Adam Art Gallery 413 Alumni Services 413 • Alumni Relations Office 413 • Court of Convocation 413 Continuing Education and Executive Development 414 Chaplaincies 414 Facilitation and Disputes Advisory Service 414 Language Learning Centre 415 Library 415 Māori Services 416 • Te Herenga Waka Marae (cultural and social centre) 416 • Te Whare Kōhungahunga o Ahumairangi 416 Research and Postgraduate Studies Office 416 Scholarships and Prizes 417 Student Recruitment and Course Advice 417 Student Services 417 • Accommodation Service 417 • Career Development and Employment 418 • Counselling Service 418 • Disability Support Services 418 • Early Childhood Education Centres 418 • Kaiwawao Māori – Māori Student Services Adviser 419 • Manaaki-Pihipihinga Programme (mentoring for Māori and Pacific students) 419 • Student Creche 419 • Student Finance Advisory Service 420 • Student Health Service 420 • Student Learning Support Service 420 Students’ Association 420 Information Student Union 421 Student Union Building 421 Recreation Services 421 University Teaching Development Centre 421 408 General Information Victoria International 422 Victoria Link Limited 422 Victoria University of Wellington Foundation 422 Victoria University Press 423 Honorary Graduates 424 Awards for Distinguished Service 425 Hunter Fellows 426 Index of Codes for Courses, Major Subjects and Specialisations 427 General Index 433 Victoria University of Wellington 409 Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington celebrated its centenary seven years ago. It combines the benefits of a long and distinguished tradition of academic excellence with innovation and a strong sense of commitment to serving the needs of students and the community in the new millennium. Located in the “dress circle” overlooking Wellington’s fine harbour, the main Kelburn campus commands stunning views and is within just a few minutes’ walk of the city centre. Victoria combines the advantages of almost ideal size for a university with a superb location in the country’s political and cultural capital and a major commercial centre. It has more than 18,500 students from more than 70 countries. Its many distinguished graduates include a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2000, Professor Alan MacDiarmid, who now works at the University of Pennsylvania but retains strong links with Victoria and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University in 1999. Another is Sir Kenneth Keith, a graduate and former dean of Victoria’s Law School, who in 2005 was elected by the UN Security Council and General Assembly to be a judge of the International Court of Justice. Founded by an Act of Parliament to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, the University began teaching and research in 1899 as a college affiliated to the University of New Zealand. Initially, lectures took place in rented accommodation in the city while a debate raged over where the new institution should be built. Towards the end of 1901 the College Council decided on the site in Kelburn, described not too inaccurately as “six vertical acres”, and in 1906 its distinctive neogothic red brick Hunter Building, now a widely recognised Wellington landmark, was completed. From the beginning of the 1990s, with a roll of more than 10,000, several schools took up quarters in the central city to ease pressure on the Kelburn campus. The Te Aro campus, in the city’s artistic heart, is the home of the Schools of Architecture and Design. The Pipitea campus, close to Parliament and the courts, consists of the magnificently restored historic Government Buildings on Lambton Quay, and the neighbouring Rutherford House and Wellington Railway Station. This campus is home to the University’s schools specialising in the study of law, business, commerce and administration. In 2005, the University merged with the Wellington College of Education, which was founded in 1880. The Karori campus is home to the schools specialising in teacher education and the University’s foundation studies programme which it also offers in Auckland in association with Academic Colleges Group. The University teaches an International Master of Business Administration programme in Hong Kong in association with the Asia-Pacific Institute of Business. Victoria enjoys many advantages of being New Zealand’s capital city university and has made the most of them by developing a highly interactive relationship with the city. Its students, staff and visiting researchers benefit from its proximity to many national research institutions and facilities such as the National Library and National Information 410 General Information Archives, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and crown research institutes. It is privileged to draw on the services of leading experts from such institutions and from the business and official communities as guest lecturers and tutors, and many of them also return as students to Victoria, taking advantage of its offering of postgraduate qualifications. Wellington is the cultural centre of New Zealand. It is home to the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company, the New Zealand School of Dance, the New Zealand Drama School, the New Zealand String Quartet (in residence at the University) and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra whose principals and players are engaged as tutors and often perform at Victoria. The University contributes actively to the cultural life of the capital and has formed the New Zealand School of Music in partnership with Massey University. A further advantage of the capital city location is the presence of many embassies and consulates, which add their own countries’ cultural and social presence to the city, as well as assisting Victoria in providing a strong support network for its international students and a heightened consciousness of New Zealand’s place in the wider world. Victoria became an autonomous university in 1962, taking the name Victoria University of Wellington. More recently, to reflect New Zealand’s bicultural (European and Māori) heritage this was extended to the current full name: Victoria University of Wellington Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui. The Māori name literally translates as “The university at the head of the fish of Māui”. In Māori mythology the North Island of New Zealand was a great fish hauled from the depths of the Pacific Ocean by the god Māui from his boat, the South Island. Students enrol with one of six faculties—Humanities & Social Sciences, Commerce & Administration, Architecture & Design, Science, Law and Education. Twenty- seven schools deliver the courses that make up the qualifications offered by these faculties. Victoria also hosts many important research centres and institutes with expertise in specialist areas. Toihuarewa is a pan-University faculty equivalent for Māori academics and non-Māori academics teaching courses or undertaking research with a significant Māori content. Central service units meet the needs of the faculties, schools and centres for administrative services. An extensive range of services is also provided to students. Facilities include a large main library and several smaller specialist libraries in law, commerce, education and architecture and design. The University provides recreational facilities, university chaplaincies, creches, student halls of residence, numerous student support services, student union facilities, a Māori marae, music concert auditorium, drama theatre, and one of the country’s most exciting public art galleries. Shops on the Kelburn campus include a computer store, bookshop, travel agency and bank as well as a bar and a range of cafes and restaurants. Academic programmes are offered at Victoria throughout the year. There are three trimesters, the main ones being Trimester 1 running from March to June and Trimester 2 from July to October, with selected courses offered in the Summer Trimester from November to February. Victoria University of Wellington 411 The Victoria University of Wellington Act 1961 [This Act is reprinted with amendments as at 1 January 1991 incorporated.] 1. Short Title and Commencement - (1) This Act may be cited as the Victoria University of Wellington Act 1961. (2) This Act shall come into force on 1 January 1962. 2. Interpretation - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires - ‘Council’ means the Council of the Victoria University of Wellington constituted in accordance with Part XV of the Education Act 1989: ‘Lecturer’ means a member of the staff of the Victoria University of Wellington who is in terms of his appointment an associate professor, a reader, a senior lecturer, or a lecturer of the University; and includes such other persons and classes of persons as the Council from time to time determines: ‘Professor’ means a professor of the Victoria University of Wellington but does not include an associate professor: ‘Registrar’ means the Registrar of the Victoria University of Wellington: ‘University’ means the Victoria University of Wellington constituted under this Act. 3. Constitution of the University - (1) For the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination and maintenance thereof by teaching and research there shall be a University to be called the Victoria University of Wellington. (2) The University shall consist of the Council, the professors emeriti,

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