Emergency lights and sirens welcome students for second semesterMURRAY WILSON/STUFF Footage from a training exercise in Palmerston North last year has been used in a virtual-reality teaching exercise about getting out of a burning home. Experience is not the best way to learn how to escape a burning house or discover the stupidity of drink-driving. But Massey University students were given the next closest thing, with emergency simulations as part of their welcome back for semester two. WARWICK SMITH/STUFF Brian Best of Massey University shows first-year students Hayley Maher, left, and Ashley Purdie how to identify faulty appliances. Constable Garry Liu said students were surprised to find themselves wandering outside the marked lines, tripping and bumping into the cones.

Source: Stuff July 26, 2017 06:22 UTC