2011 March

Archive for March, 2011

31 Mar 2011

Levy Controls Steven Joyce has announced a new Bill to control what institutions charge for student services levies and require student input (NZPA, RNZ). NZUSA welcomed it and only included a very small dig about VSM, which shows how much they do like it. English Language Schools Hit RNZ’s John Gerritsen did a great piece on the impact… Read Full Story.

Education CEs Go in NZ and NSW

In: Policy

30 Mar 2011

Today Karen Sewell announced her resignation as CE/Secretary of the Ministry of Education from July this year and the Minister duly thanked her. Karen is retiring after 45 years of being a teacher, a school principal and CE of ERO, NZQA and the MOE. I’ve met Karen quite a few times over the years, in her roles as NZQA CE and then at the MOE,… Read Full Story.

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Tags: Australia, MOE, NZQA

News 30/3 – Dodgy Uni. Loan Repayments. Mild Massey Expansion.

30 Mar 2011

Dodgy Uni Immigration NZ is concerned about AUT’s action in enrolling an international student without a student visa, while still charging her international student fees, and now not giving her the degree she achieved because she didn’t have a visa! (They enrolled her, took her money, taught her and assessed her work, but now they won’t issue the… Read Full Story.

TEC Managers Announced

In: Funding|Policy

29 Mar 2011

The second tier managers for TEC have been announced. Grant Klinkum will be the General Manager for Tertiary Investment. David Nicholson will be the General Manager for Strategy, Planning and Investment. Sue Peacock will be the General Manager for Corporate Services. They’re all internal applications. David previously ran the ITO, ITP, wananga and university investment areas so is… Read Full Story.

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News 29/3 – Loan Repaying Heroes. Waikato EFTS Up. Cannabis & Boom.

In: ITPs|Students|Tertiary Education|Universities

29 Mar 2011

Loan Repaying Heroes Victoria’s Prof Sir Paul Callaghan is calling for overseas student loan debtors to be heroes and pay up early to help the Christchurch rebuild. He has launched the Heroic Educated Kiwi Expatriates (HEKE) project and even has his own website. TV3 and The Dominion Post have covered it and Nine to Noon on RNZ will… Read Full Story.

News 28/3 – Homemade CPIT Graduation, Darren Hughes, Export Ed & Quake

28 Mar 2011

Homemade CPIT Graduation A group of CPIT students have made their own graduation ceremony (and gowns). The students completed their degree in Japanese and wanted to mark the day when their graduation was to have occurred. Check out the video for the story – it’s well worth it. Darren Hughes I’ve decided not to write much more about… Read Full Story.

News 25/3 – Oxford Exchange for UC. Export Ed Outlook. Kevin Rudd’s BBQ.

25 Mar 2011

Oxford Exchange UC (I’m sick of typing their full name!) has announced a student exchange with the University of Oxford – 42 honours and postgrad students will spend an 8 week term there and UC is putting $2K towards airfares (fees are covered by Oxford). That’s pretty cool. Export Ed Outlook Education NZ has done a survey of… Read Full Story.

Marine Trades Challenge

In: Industry|Industry Input|ITOs|Tertiary Education

24 Mar 2011

I really like the annual Marine Trades Challenge run by NZ Marine ITO for their apprentices. They have to build part of the boat (the rest is supplied) and then race it around a short course. This year they were using catamarans and had to design the “bridgedeck” (ie the thing that holds it all together. It’s just… Read Full Story.

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News 24/3 – Bye to Darren Hughes. New Professors. UC Facilities.

24 Mar 2011

Bye to Darren Hughes The last 24 hours of political news have been dominated by an incident involving Darren Hughes and an 18 year old at Hughes’ home in the early hours of the morning – here’s a representative story. Exactly what happened will not emerge for some time, but I’m pretty confident that The Dim-Post (a popular… Read Full Story.

News 23/3 – Budget Cuts? Otago Uni’s Prison Labour (in 1869). Religion Dying.

23 Mar 2011

Budget Cuts? Journalists are taking the cheap and easy route of saying that the tight budget will lead to major cuts in student loans. TV3 suggested it while TVNZ put up a Fairfax story with a very misleading headline. RNZ actually asked Bill English and he said there will be no major change. Otago Uni’s Prison Labour Turns… Read Full Story.

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