News 31/5 – Massey Cuts Access Too, GEOS Loses in Court

May 31st 2010 at 8:31am, By Dave Guerin

  1. Massey Cuts Access Massey University is closing second semester enrolments early, cutting back summer school offerings and introducing preferential entry based on NCEA results next year. The Manawatu Daily Standard has a good story with reactions. There’s also a long story about access restrictions in general at Vic student paper Salient. The Dominion Post has a story on the issue that tries to turn a minor comment by Steven Joyce into a story about international student numbers growing, but I think they stretched it too far.
  2. GEOS Boss Wins Case A former head of GEOS New Zealand, a Japanese-owned English language school, has won a $190,000 Employment Relations Authority decision over management and dismissal decisions. The parent company in Japan went bankrupt in April, owing $121m, while the NZ company is still trading under a new name (New Zealand Language Centres Ltd).
  3. Wgtn Music School The Dominion Post has come out in support of the Massey-Vic Music “national” music school proposal, saying how wonderful it would be as a national asset and how the government should fund it. I imagine The Press wrote something similar about the Chch “national” school. My view is that tagging national on the front of something doesn’t justify government funding and that institutions should fund capital from their own pockets, something Massey and Vic have been prominently unwilling to do in this case, while they have funded other larger developments over the last few years. If it doesn’t matter to them, why should it to us?
  4. Street View Labour MP Maryan Street has some views on tertiary education, and other Budget issues, in a column for the Nelson Mail.
  5. Milan Fashion Two Otago Polytechnic design graduates are participating in an Italian fashion competition, which has as a prize the chance to show at Milan fashion week.
  6. Journalism Success Six Massey University journalism students have won the first Bruce Jesson Emerging Journalism Award.
  7. Easi-Yo Research I mentioned Easi-Yo’s research plans on Friday, but they are doing another project too, with Massey University. They seem very keen to use any R&D credits on offer.
  8. Student Snaps The University of Canterbury Students’ Assn photo competition has a winner – check it out.
  9. Cheap Catfish You might have seen a new fish on sale – I wondered what Basa was when I saw it on sale for $8.99/kilo at the weekend. Well, this story involving NMIT staff and students gives you some background.
  10. Midwifery Postgrad Grants$1m of grants for postgrad midwifery study has bene made available by Health Workforce New Zealand.
  11. Otago Arts There’s an opinion piece here on Otago polytechnic and university arts education buildings - may only appeal to locals. There’s also a piece here on leasing flats to international students at the University of Otago.

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