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I have travelled the 8.5 hours from New Zealand up to Darwin in the Far North of Australia for the Tertiary Education Management Conference, being held at the new convention centre built by the harbour at the edge of the Arafura Sea.
The conference brings together tertiary administrators and facilities managers from across Australia, New Zealand [...]
The Tuesday morning session was started by a rousing presentation by Ngahihi o te ra Bidois from Rotorua. Given this international conference is being held in New Zealand it was great to have someone who so obviously embraced his NZ and Maori heritage.
Ngahihi o te ra talked of ways to increase your leadership influence and [...]
Have been spending the week at the Tertiary Education Management Conference based at the Christchurch Convention Centre. It has been organised by the Aotearoa Branch of ATEM (for which I am the Branch President) and TEFMA, the Facilities Management Association. It has been an enjoyable conference and good to see everything coming together after 2 [...]
