Tom Ryan of the TEU will have a guest post at 11am today on university entry.

1. Terry Barnett Honoured A group of student mentors at NorthTec have honured former CEO Terry Barnett (pictured) by presenting him with a patu rakau to recognise his support for student learning.
2. Training Cleans Up The Dom Post has a good story on a major cleaning franchise company getting into training and the effect on franchisees (good). They’re working with an unnamed ITO, but I suppose it is the Building Services Contractors ITO.
3. Vet Simulation Otago may have the first simulated human patients (see yesterday’s news), but Unitec has the first simulated animal patients in a new simulated veterinary clinic. Students will be taught procedures around taking the animal’s blood pressure, administering a tube to an animal’s airways for anaesthetic procedures, preparing animals for surgery and x-rays, bandaging them, and finding a pulse, amongst others.
4. Vet ObituaryThe Southland Times has an obituary on Cliff Irvine, emeritus professor in veterinary science from Lincoln.
5. Aoraki InternationalAoraki Polytechnic is developing new international marketing strategies, while their head of hotel school led a team of NZ chefs to a victory over Australian chefs.
6. Aoraki Cuts? About 512 EFTS seem to be at risk at Aoraki Polytechnic due to low completion rates and/or the regulatory compliance/health and safety funding changes.
7. Maori Fashion An AUT graduate won a Maori fashion competitionon Saturday – the Miromoda Fashion Awards.
8. Improving Beef A Lincoln Uni masters students has identified ways to improve the beef herd, an area that receives less attention than sheep or dairy productivity apparently.
9. Off to Poland The One Beep student  team from the University of Auckland is off to Poland this week to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup.
10. Help the Refs and JPs Otago Poly has been training local rugby refs, while Open Polytechnic has been reviewing the course for justices of the peace (see end of speech).
11. Students at G20 Student unions around the world called for the G20 to work towards equal access to  free higher education.