News 3/9 – First Marketing on Completion Rates. New TEU Prez.

September 3rd 2010 at 9:25am, By Dave Guerin

  1. First Marketing on Completion Rates Lifeway College is the first provider to use its students’ completions as a marketing tool. They’re promoting a 93% qualification achievement rate according to “the official statistics submitted to the Tertiary Education Commission”, so I assume they’re talking about the soon to be published stats. I’d expect a lot more of this next week, but of more interest will be how the figures are used on an ongoing basis.
  2. Taratahi-WITT Deal There’s a great photo of the launch in a cow shed of the WITT-Taratahi partnership.
  3. Food Tech Here’s a good story about a food technology lecturer at Massey. He bemoans the number of students, but he should promote the beer-making that is featured in the story more!
  4. Nice Things An AUT design lecturer comments on his 10 favourite things.
  5. Trades Academy Problem Eastern BOP schools are complaining about a new trades academy based at Waiariki because they will lose some operations grant funding when they’re not teaching the students (related story here). Not salaries funding, just operations grant. Hmm, wouldn’t you expect to lose some funding if you’re not teaching someone?
  6. Science Academy Creation Talented senior science students from New Zealand’s provincial or rural, small and low decile schools will have the opportunity to reach their full potential as part of a new academy being launched by the University of Otago.
  7. Snow Games An Otago Uni student is attending her seventh games (she’s now doing a PhD, rather than being a perpetual undergrad), and there were sweet grabs in the half pipe. 
  8. Top Teacher’s Art UCOL’s Marty Vreede, winner of the PM’s Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence has an art exhibition opening at Wellington’s Solander Gallery next Wednesday.
  9. New TEU Prez Sandra Grey is the incoming TEU President, replacing Tom Ryan next year. She’s a senior lecturer at Victoria University’s School of Social and Cultural Studies. Tom is heading back to academia.
  10. Bits and Pieces A Lincoln scientist is part of a team that has used a tree stump to measure the Alpine fault’s rate of movement. Auckland Uni researchers are looking for dads of 2-9 year olds to participate in a parenting survey. A Canterbury Uni student is in the running to get the Kiwi Battler award from the Morgan Foundation. Memory loss is the subject of a public lecture at Massey Wellington. Miss Manawatu, from Massey, is doing good works for charity. David Tripe of Massey commented again on SCF issues.
  11. Lesbian & Gay History Victoria Uni’s Alison Laurie has been granted an award to record ten oral histories about Australian influences on the development of lesbian and gay communities, networks, organisations and individual identities in New Zealand.
  12. Scanning Accounts The University of Otago is now scanning all its invoices, rather than manually entering them, but I thought that big organisations were already doing this as a matter of course.

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