News 21/7 – Education NZ Not Charitable

July 21st 2010 at 8:54am, By Dave Guerin

Education NZ Not Charitable That’s not my judgment, but the Charities Commission, which has not awarded them charitable status. It will make life a bit more inconvenient (and costly) for ENZ, but I’m happy that the new Charities Commission is being much tougher on who gets charitable status – ENZ is, after all, an export promotion body. ENZ had gone to the High Court to challenge the decision and is considering going to the Court of Appeal. There are some other educational bodies that got charitable status that surprised me, but I won’t name them – I’m not on a witch hunt!
Top Piggery The herd manager at Christchurch Men’s Prison has been named herd manager of the year by the pork industry, a week after winning the Corrections Inmate Employment Innovation Awards for running a training programme within the piggery.
Otago Corner Two Otago Uni students are off to an Aspiring Leaders Forum in Wellington. Like hazelnuts and are overweight? You could be part of a study on hazelnuts’ effect on heart disease. Otago Uni has 1,064 credit cards, which is quite high, but everyone manages their finances differently.
1080 Prof Charles Eason, Lincoln University, is working on alternatives to 1080 in possum control. TV3 did a story last night too and The Press this morning.
Youth Success We heard a lot about youth failures and unemployment these days, so here’s a piece about a teenage dad succeeding in MIT’s (oops, it was Unitec’s) Youth Guarantee scheme. Sure it’s probably a PR piece from MITUnitec, but it reads well.