Isabella Lenihan-Ikin

Guest writer

Isabella Lenihan-Ikin is a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar studying a Masters of Science in international health and tropical medicine at the University of Oxford. She is originally from Tāmaki Makaurau.

During lockdown, universities were obliged to close. (Photo by Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images)

As universities go ever more online, students are getting left out in the cold

Students are confused, uncertain and stressed by a flurry of institutional changes.

By Isabella Lenihan-Ikin | 28th June, 2020

Graduates from the University of Auckland in 2018 (Photo: Getty Images)

Why increasing student debt is not a support package

With students being forced to decide whether to heat their flats or buy food, the government's tertiary support package is simply not enough.

By Isabella Lenihan-Ikin | 16th April, 2020

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The Covid-19 travel ban is racist and disastrous for international students

The president of the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations argues for a student exemption.

By Isabella Lenihan-Ikin | 27th February, 2020