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AUT has once again come out on top in a survey that ranks women's participation in senior academic positions at New Zealand universities.
The results of the biannual New Zealand Census of Women's Participation were released by the Human Rights Commission last week and show that AUT has consistently topped the table in 2004, 2006 and now in 2008.
    However, despite AUT retaining its number one ranking, the proportion of women professors has actually dropped by 2.64 per cent to 15.22 per cent and associate professors by 4.22 per cent to 38.64 per cent since the last census. 

An ex-AUT student has taken his first trip overseas this week to attend a prestigious workshop in the UK that aims to find new ways of thinking about cities and public spaces.
    Rangituhia Hollis, 30, who received a Te Ara Poutama scholarship in 2001 and studied Art and Design at AUT from 2001-03, departed for the two-week Cityscapers: By The Throat studio on Friday 28 March.

An AUT business student refuses to demand special treatment as she struggles to continue studying whilst single-handedly supporting her family after her husband suffered a massive heart attack.
    Lajwanti Gidwani, 38, who is studying for a postgraduate diploma in business, hasn’t used her recent difficulties to shirk her studies, despite a heavy workload.
    Even when reprimanded for answering a phone call from home during a lecture, she didn’t immediately speak up about her problems.

World-wide protests have come at a time of escalating human rights abuses in Tibet despite China’s promise of improvements in human rights ahead of the Olympics.
    Friends of Tibet New Zealand held a Global Day of Action march in Aotea square on Monday, March 31st.
    About 300 people led by nine Buddhist monks marched down Queen St on the anniversary of the day the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama set foot in India after his exile from Tibet in 1959.
    Keith Locke, Green party MP and spokesperson for foreign affairs and human rights, was at the march.