Talk:Victoria University of Wellington

Photos of VUW
The picture of RH building needs replacing all you can see is the beehive

I agree with what was said about managerialism but it is not NPOV and therefore has no place in wikipedia

I'm happy to take a picture of as many VUW buildings as people want (almost all the other ones on the page are mine). Please suggest what you would like/guidelines and I'll get onto it. - dean

done - dean —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deanpemberton (talk • contribs) 09:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

VUWSA
Surely there needs to be a page for the student's association? --Gregstephens 01:13, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sir,I am studying B.Tech (C.S.E) in INDIA. I would like to do M.S in NEWZEALAND. Please list universities which offer free education. My mail address is satish2k5forever@yahoo.co.in

Sorry dude, you know what they say - There's no such thing as a free lunch. :-) Ppe42 12:52, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

University Entrance
The first paragraph implies that Bursary is the normal means of admission. Someone who knows how NCEA works (does any such person exist?) should update this. T J McKenzie 23:15, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

I talked to a year 13 student last night, who's applying for entrance to Vic for next year. According to her, the entry requirement for most subjects is only 42 credits; 14 from each of three different subjects. I've just had a look at the NZQA website, which indicates that it's slightly more complicated, but I'll have a go at updating the page now. T J McKenzie 07:32, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Victoria's entry requirements are relatively simple, they're not mysterious and a quick look at the University's website would have revealed this page: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/home/studying/enrol_admission.html Essentially if you have the required credits at NCEA (or equivalent) there is direct entry into all first year courses. However, for some courses, eg law, architecture, entry into second year is dependent on the students' grades at first year.

List of students
The list looks unreasonably long. It needs a trim and the rest of the names can be spun off to a separate article or its own category. Just before you cite another university's long list, I've seen University of Edinburgh and the likes, and they need a trim also. Mr Bluefin 11:47, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it. If someone is notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia, then they should be included on it I suppose, unless you want to create a category for them?  But the redlinks should go. --Midnighttonight please tell me off for procrastinating on my essay! 22:27, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Updating
I fixed up a few inaccuracies surrounding student numbers and added in links to pages on the University's website regarding Victoria's Maori name, its history, campuses and faculties. Also alumnus for a male, alumna for a woman, alumnae for a group of women and alumni for a mixed group

Marilyn Waring is now a Professor at AUT University. She was appointed to the Institute of Public Policy at AUT in May 2006. (Sinista 02:24, 8 January 2007 (UTC))

Further updating
As well, the University's style for an honours degree is BA(Hons) not BA (Hon). As well Douglas Lilburn only had an hon doc so by convention should not have been called Dr Douglas Lilburn. The article suggested that only Victoria and Auckland University offer architecture qualifications, this is incorrect, they are also offered by Unitec New Zealand.

Faculties and Schools at Victoria University
Clearly someone who knows nothing of the University's organisational structure has incorrectly changed the organisational section to place schools under faculties. This is not correct and even a quick glance at the University's website here: Org chart would have made that plain. The confusion occurs because many people, including the University's own staff, sadly cannot separate in their minds academic management from line management.

Academic management is in the hands of Faculties, each of which is headed by a Dean. Faculties are the collection of academics who meet in a Faculty Board and are the guardians of qualifications offered by the Faculty. For example, the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences offers a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies. Therefore, academic staff from the School of Architecture are entitled to attend meetings of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences. Likewise, academics from the School of Accounting and Commercial Law regularly attend the Faculty of Law meetings.

Line management sees the Heads of the 27 Schools at Victoria (the list left off one in Education, Te Kura Maori) reporting to a Pro Vice-Chancellor. For example, while staff of the School of Government provide courses largely for qualifications offered by the Faculty of Commerce & Administration (headed by Professor Peter Thirkell), the Head of that School (Professor Gary Hawke) reports to the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Government Relations) Professor Tony Smith who, is also a Dean of Law. Some courses are also offered by units other than Schools (eg, Va'aomanu Pasifika, the International Institute of Modern Letters and the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies).

The confusion occurs primarily because, with the exception of the University's College of Education, there is no collective term to describe the group of Schools that report to a Pro Vice-Chancellor. Nznewsguy

Update
I updated the enrolment figures now that the 2006 Annual Report is available www.victoria.ac.nz/annualreports Someone had correctly added that Victoria was fourth in the 2006 PBRF but incorrectly said it was fourth in 2003 - it was third in 2003 and effectively dropped a place.

Minor correction
Someone put that John Clarke had graduated with a BA. You will find that while he was a student at Victoria, he never completed let alone graduated from the University. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nznewsguy (talk • contribs) 20:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Motto

 * sapientia magis auro desideranda
 * "Wisdom is more to be desired than gold"

The university does not now officially claim to have any motto at all; I do not know when the above motto ceased to be used. I've therefore added a cn tag. The above motto does still appear on a couple of memorial plaques around the campus, but only as a matter of historical interest. The tagline most associated with the university now is "It makes you think", from its advertising campaigns over the last few years.

(I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide whether it is simply that the powers that be within the university would prefer that people forget the above motto ever existed.) 130.195.86.36 (talk) 23:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

(If the benchmark for a motto at VUW is "Appears on a plaque around campus" then an equally valid motto could well be "This University Sucks")  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deanpemberton (talk • contribs) 03:29, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

what does "Entry" being "open" mean?
From my background in the US, the sentence "Entry to all courses at first year is open, and entry to second year in some programmes (e.g. law, criminology, creative writing, architecture) is restricted." leaves me quite confused. Both the words 'entry' and 'course' seem to be used differently than they are in the US. I'm guessing it has something to do with requirements to declare a major in a course of study (vs a single course taken during a semester), but I'm guessing. Can someone clarify the language to be more widely understandable? Thanks! ★NealMcB★ (talk) 05:11, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

VUW no longer occupies railway
As far as I know, anyway — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.195.253.43 (talk) 01:51, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes I believe you are correct - please feel free to correct the article. Andrewgprout (talk) 07:36, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Name change
The institution is consulting on a name change. Please don't change the name of the article until this actually happens, as per policy, since there is a great deal of work involved in changing the name, since it involves renaming categories with thousands of articles. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:37, 24 September 2018 (UTC)