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News 12/2 – KAREN, midwives and a fluoro vest
February 12th 2010 at 9:48am, By Dave Guerin
You can see Stuart Middleton at right in a hard hat and a fluoro vest (picture from Manukau Courier), as he checks out new classrooms at MIT’s new tertiary high school. Congrats to Stuart as he has been working on this project for so long and the concept is worth a go. Incidentally, Stuart has also started a blog called EDTalkNZ.- Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi is going to get a high speed data connection that will allow it to join up to KAREN. Good to see such connections reaching out to Whakatane.
- In another IT story, AUT is undertaking a desktop virtualisation project. I don’t understand the whole process, but this approach has the potential to slash the costs of hardware.
- The Manawatu Standard has a story on UCOL offering midwifery training, and I’ll come back to this issue as there are some interesting undercurrents.
- Lynne Pillay, Labour MP, is on Steven Joyce’s case for funding for deaf students. There is another piece on this from the National Foundation for the Deaf, about an Auckland service supporting students at public institutions there being closed.
- MIT and Whitireia Community Polytechnic have agreed to work together on issues relating to Pacific communities – it seems like a great idea
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1 Response to News 12/2 – KAREN, midwives and a fluoro vest
John MacCormick
February 15th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
I’m delighted to see the MIT tertiary high school taking off – Stuart has done a great job planning this. I was particularly impressed with MIT’s efforts to find a system to select suitable students, keep the schools engaged and wrap some decent evaluation around it.
The challenge is to find a funding and regulatory model that can enable this kind of thing to go to scale if it works, without unit costs well above those for secondary schooling. Could be hard to keep the contributing schools engaged without a fair amount of double funding for students.