Our feature post today is a response from an ITO CEO to my Monday post on industry training - check it out at 11am.

1. Enrolments Wairiki Institute of Technology is calling for caps to be lifted after high enrolments at the start of the year.
2. Orientation Otago has been quiet but Waikato students have been rowdy. Quoting from the Waikato Times “An elderly Cook St resident told the Times she thought O Week was quieter this year. In the past drunken students had ruined her beautifully maintained garden, ripping out shrubs. They’d also destroyed her letterbox.” I live next to Victoria University and had my fifth side mirror ripped off my car last week in two and a half years – I don’t even bother replacing the passenger side mirror any more. I’ve also had wipers bent back 180 degrees (as have the other cars in the street). Grrr. Anyway, got that off my chest.
3. Research John Key opened the New Zealand Greenhouse Gas Research Centre at the AgResearch Grasslands campus by Palmerston North yesterday. It is a joint collaboration between AgResearch, DairyNZ, Landcare Research, Lincoln University, Massey University, Niwa, Plant & Food Research, the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium and Scion. TVNZ coverage is here.
4. ICT Otago Polytechnic has done a deal with a local ISP to provide wireless internet services to student flats.
5. Teaching Applications for Ako Aotearoa’s  Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards close on 31 March.
6. Results Julia Gillard, Australian Deputy PM and Minister of Education, announced a new My University website yesterday. It follows on from the My Schools website which has been very popular with parents in Australia. The site will cover the following items. (This and the Complete College America website mentioned yesterday have a lot of  relevance for proposed performance reporting in NZ.)
   • Student to staff ratios
   • results of student satisfaction surveys
   • measures of graduate skills
   • graduate outcomes
   • information about fees
   • information about access to student services, and most importantly
   • quality of teaching and learning outcomes