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| − | |native_name = '' | + | |native_name = ''Wānangāronui a Tokapa'' |
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| − | |motto = | + | |motto = ''i Mānuka ta mau i ku mātauranga'' |
| − | |mottoeng = | + | |mottoeng = Our weapon is education |
| − | |established = 1 October | + | |established = 1 October 1980 |
| − | |type = | + | |type = Public |
| − | |endowment = [[ | + | |endowment = [[Kirib|KRB]]5 billion ([[Oan Dollar|OAD]] 35 billion) |
| − | |chancellor = | + | |chancellor = His Royal Highness, Ehe |
| − | |vice_chancellor = | + | |vice_chancellor = |
| − | |head = | + | |head = Apikaira Parakimete |
| − | |academic_staff = 1, | + | |academic_staff = 1,000 |
| − | |administrative_staff = | + | |administrative_staff = 1,000 |
| − | |students = | + | |students = 10,000 |
| − | |undergrad = | + | |undergrad = 7,000 |
| − | |postgrad = | + | |postgrad = 3,000 |
| − | |city = [[ | + | |city = [[La Rochelle]] (''Tokapa'') |
| − | |province = | + | |province = The Rock Island (''Tokamotu'') |
| − | |country = | + | |country = [[The Oan Isles]] (''Kōa'') |
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| − | |campus = | + | |campus = 6 |
| − | |former_names = | + | |former_names = None |
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| − | |nickname = | + | |nickname = Watoka |
| − | |mascot = | + | |mascot = Blue Macaw (''Makoa Rakau'') |
| − | |affiliations = | + | |affiliations = Oan National University Council |
| − | |website = [http://www. | + | |website = [http://www.ulr.caek] |
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}}The University of La Rochelle ([[Oan language]]: ''Wānangāronui a Tokapa'') is a group of tertiary education research and teaching institutes owned by the La Rochelle University Company. | }}The University of La Rochelle ([[Oan language]]: ''Wānangāronui a Tokapa'') is a group of tertiary education research and teaching institutes owned by the La Rochelle University Company. | ||
Revision as of 01:21, 10 July 2018
| University of La Rochelle | |
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| Wānangāronui a Tokapa | |
| Motto | i Mānuka ta mau i ku mātauranga |
| Motto in English | Our weapon is education |
| Established | 1 October 1980 |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | KRB5 billion (OAD 35 billion) |
| Chancellor | His Royal Highness, Ehe |
| Academic staff | 1,000 |
| Admin. staff | 1,000 |
| Students | 10,000 |
| Undergraduates | 7,000 |
| Postgraduates | 3,000 |
| Location | La Rochelle (Tokapa), The Rock Island (Tokamotu), The Oan Isles (Kōa) |
| Campus | 6 |
| Former names | None |
| Colours | Light Blue, Dark Blue, Black and White |
| Nickname | Watoka |
| Mascot | Blue Macaw (Makoa Rakau) |
| Affiliations | Oan National University Council |
| Website | [1] |
Contents
Governance
The La Rochelle University company was founded to consolidate the institutions of higher education and research in La Rochelle under one authority while avoiding the limits that a statutory solution would have imposed. The La Rochelle University Company is entirely owned by the government. It is managed by aBoard of Directors appointed by the Minister of Education. The Board operates independently and it appoints the Chief Executive Officer who manages the daily administration of the company. The company does not impose itself on the institutes of which it is comprised.
Each institute generally runs its own affairs. Each institute charges tuition fees according to a framework developed by the board and presents a report of its financial position and performance to the board of directors every year. The board exercises oversight and coordination of the various institutions. The board also appropriates the government endowment every year. Otherwise, each institutions appoints its own managerial, academic and support staff, sets its own examinations, yearly timetable, and other procedures. The institutes issue degrees in the name of the University of La Rochelle and observe similar rules and standards.
Residences
The institutions that make up the university depend on the University Company depend on it to provide their students with housing. There are many residences located in different parts of La Rochelle. The housing system houses half of all students. Most students housed in university residences are undergraduates. All first-year students are housed in residences with catering. Second-year students have an option of catering and self-catering. Third-year students and above are obliged to go to a self-catering residence.
Residences typically have different housing arrangements. A third have shared rooms. Another third have separate rooms with shared common areas. Another third have their own apartments. Fees for housing are charged separately from tuition fees. Students pay separately for the type of room they stay in and whether they have catering or not. Most residences have a library, computer center, and gym. Some residences have sports fields and courts. Most residences lie within walking distance of restaurants, shops, public transport, and entertainment such as cinemas. Residences are served by a University Bus System that is free to students and staff.
The allocation of residences is determined on a first come first serve basis. Residences are managed and administered by professional managers. Each residence has a council or committee to represent the students and manage student-related issues including discipline and spirit. Most residences have extracurricular activities such as sports and choir. There are numerous interresidence competitions such as chess tournaments and rugby matches.
Clubs
There are numerous extracurricular activities for students to enjoy. There are clubs for different extracurricular activities that operate on a residence, institute or university-wide scale. The clubs that operate at university level, compete with other universities in the country or the world. They are semi-professional and have stringent admittance. Students often receive scholarships if they participate in a sport and are part of a university team.
There are political clubs that are linked to a student organisation for one of the national political parties. They often contest elections in the various student representative bodies. Some of these are limited to the University or comprise lobbyist activities for special interest groups within or of the university. Different religions are represented. There are various schools of Mauism, sects of Islam and Abrahamism and denominations of Christianity. There are clubs linked to various nationalities of foreign students such as the Noberean Students' Club. Most c,Luba, except for religious ones, require membership fees to be paid.
Rugby is the biggest sport in the University. The University Rugby union squad is part of the national professional rugby league. There are many sports recognised by the university. The University often performs well in most major national sports such as athletics, boxing, canoeing, climbing and watersports. The University Company owns sports grounds such as cricket ovals and rugby fields. It also owns a large sports center with an Olympic swimming pool, courts and a gym along with a sports medicine center in the Institute of Medicine
Medicine
The Tamatea Institute was founded in the 1900s. It is named after its founder: Rutu Tamatea. Rutu Tamatea was a nurse and midwife and herbalist. She saw the dismal state of medicine in her area and decided to train women in her home as nurses, midwives and herbalists. Her husband helped her raise the money to buy a townhouse where she would be able to train the nurses. She approached the Education Guild and requested that they recognise her school and offer her support. When the Guild members saw her work, they were impressed and decided to assist her.
When she passed away, ownership and management of the small college was transferred to a foundation that her family established in her name: the Rutu Tamatea Foundation. The foundation was fully financed by the government through the relevant authority in charge of education at the time. The institute expanded considerably over the years. It built a clinic, bought more properties to house its students and hold classes. The institute raised support from private donors to buy the land on which the modern campus is built in 1920. The campus had been a farm that went bankrupt because of a failed crop. As new buildings were built, the school relocated there where it remains. In 1950, the school worked with the La Rochelle City Council to build the La Rochelle Hospital that stands next to the campus connected by an underground tunnel.
Staff and Students
There are 1,000 students. There are 50 permanent academic staff. There are 200 guest lecturers,who have a contract with the institute to lecture students once a year. Many of the lecturers conduct research and write books. Senior students often work as support academic staff by marking tests or offering tutorial classes. Senior students also work at the La Rochelle Hospital where they receive their training as part of their education.
Facilities
The campus has limited access. Students and staff enter through the gates by biometric scanning. The campus is monitored by closed-circuit television. Security personnel regularly patrol the campus and have guards permanently set up at the dangerous chemicals center. The school also operates the student wellness program. All students from the University of La Rochelle are able to get free access to a psychologist, contraceptives, immunisations and check-ups at the La Rochelle Hospital.The school is served by a free uncapped broadband internet network. The school has been renovated with ramps, toilets and elevators catered for the disabled.
Upon entering the school one proceeds to the Tamatea Square. This a paved area, where a statute of Rutu Tamatea has been erected in the center. There are benches and trees. On the east edifice is the Medical Library. The library is two stories high with a story below ground. The underground section houses every Journal ever printed by the National Medical Journal and a collection of ancient writings on herbal medicine. The collection of herbal medicine is the largest in the country. Behind the building is a Study Center with computers, meeting rooms, and hundreds of study desks.
On the western edifice of Tamatea Square is the Admin Building where the offices of staff are located, with offices for tuition queries, ICT related requests and issues, safety and security, transport and others. The southern edifice faces the main gate. The northern edifice has the Second Student Center. There is a cafeteria, gaming center, gym, movie screening room, theatre, various rooms linked by a large open gallery with art on display.
There are buildings mostly on the east which house, mostly, lecture theatres, tutorial classes and computer labs. The buildings on the north house the laboratories and the chemicals storage sites. The southern area is made up of various centers for research which take up the most space on campus. They include the Center for Genetics, the Center for Neurology and others. These research centers also form a part of the Hospital Complex. The Hospital lies on the other side of them, housing mostly offices and wards for patients to sleep in.
Research
The institute has had a considerable influence on the study on traditional medicine particularly herbal medicine. Rutu Tamatea believed that herbs were just as important as modern innovations that were being readily adopted in the Oan Isles. She not only left the school with a vast collection of books on the subject, but with a spirit to be an expert on the subject. Local pharmaceutical companies work with the Tamatea Institute to develop and test medicines particularly herbal medicines.
Science
Commerce
Engineering
Arts
Humanities
Law
The Wiremu Pounamu Law School was founded in 1950. The Law Society of the Oan Isles identified a need for the training of skilled lawyers. With financial support from the state, it founded a school where lawyers could be trained. The students were trained almost exclusively by visiting lecturers who were practicing attorneys. The Law School offered degrees from its inception. The school is named after Wiremu Pounamu, the supreme court justice who served as its first rector when he passed away two years after its founding. Before that it was simply known as the law school.
Staff and students
The school has 300 students and 100 academic staff and numerous guest lectures. The school has several judges, attorneys, investigators and legal academics who serve as teachers. The school also has the most militant and most powerful Student Council in the University. The Student Council has had a role in the La Rochelle community. It has sued the government for an urban development program that would have displaced many families, it has sued a corporation that was illegally dumping toxic chemicals into a stream. The Law Students Council is often approached by other student councils to assist and advise them on legal issues. Alumni serve on the council as well,sometimes availing their legal expertise and resources for causes of the Students Council.
Facilities
The Law school is housed in one building. The Wiremu Pounamu Building is Seven stories high with a courtyard in the middle. The main lobby leads to the courtyard elevators lead to the floors above while corridors lead to the computer rooms, and library on the east, and administrative offices on the west. The school has various lecture venues and classes. The library takes up the most space in the building, existing over two floors and housing 100,000 books. The school also has a moot court set up for mock trials. The school also has a law clinic. The law clinic is a full law firm where students serve to gain the practical experience they need to get their degrees.
