CANTA Magazine

This year’s éntre prize-giving kicked off to a roaring start as nervous participants entered Christchurch’s spacious Art Gallery entrance.  With $95,000 worth of prizes up for grabs and a speech from Eric Hertz, C.E.O of new mobile company, 2degrees, the event promised to achieve its goal, celebrating student’s entrepreneurship, hard work and ingenuity.
Student run and [...]

New safety requirements by the New Zealand Department of Labour has meant substantial changes to the civil engineering bridge building competition under class ENCL 211. The bridge building competition sees students designing and building a bridge that will hold two students but snap under three students’ weights.
Concerns about the students’ safety has meant that the [...]

Doctors are urging sick people to stay home, as the H1N1 virus continues to spread throughout the community.
Though publicity for the H1N1 virus, commonly known as Swine Flu, has been dwindling, doctors around campus still believe is presents a possible threat to the university.
“It’s a very contagious virus” says Health Centre doctor, Tearlach MacLean “Schools [...]

Canterbury University is looking to fine their Colleges up to $40,000 if there are higher than agreed levels of inactive research staff found in their next Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) evaluation.
The PBRF evaluation looks into the qualities of a university’s research outputs in order to determine the right allocation of funding. With academic grading [...]

The UCSA’s new initiative for affordable lunches

Prospective students get a look at uni life