2021 Lukluk (VSA) - Magazine - Page 22
Tony Binns with UNIVOL Olivia Eyles who is working as a Student Learning Support
Assistant in the Cook Islands. Photo credit: Chris Garden
Students Abroad
More than a decade and a half
from when he first floated the
concept with VSA staff and
on the eve of his retirement,
Otago University Professor, Tony
Binns, looks back on the UniVol
programme and the hundreds
of students it has placed on
development assignments abroad.
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“I came over from the UK in
October 2004. I’d worked at the
University of Sussex for 30 years
and then got the opportunity to
have a fresh challenge in a new
country.” says Tony.
“That December I met VSA staff
and talking to them informally