About ED Blog

Our Focus

ED Blog is for people working in and around NZ tertiary education who care about policy, strategy and results. The best blogs are part of a community and a gap exists for a tertiary education community in the demise of the weekly NZ Education Review paper in late 2009.  So we will be encouraging guest bloggers and occasional opinion pieces from across the tertiary education sector, ensuring that people can continue to discuss the sector’s issues. We will also be seeking views from sector groups on major issues and sharing them with readers. News tips are welcome – use our contact form.

We post a review of tertiary education news from NZ and around the world between 7am and 9am each weekday morning. Normally we post again between 11am and 3pm – these posts focus on one issue and either analyse current issues in more depth or are based on some of our own research. We don’t normally post at the weekend because most of our readers leave work and forget about tertiary education for a couple of days (and we should too!).

Our Bloggers

Dave Guerin is the main blogger while David Choat is a guest blogger who also works with ED – both are profiled here. Other regular guest bloggers will be profiled below as they are added.

  • Darel Hall has been a student representative, worked in Parliament, was Executive Director of the Industry Training Federation and a tertiary education contractor. He prefers being right and attempts to learn when he is wrong.  He is a life long student.

The door is open to contributors, so anyone wishing to submit a one-off opinion piece or become a regular guest blogger should contact Dave Guerin using our contact form. Well-argued, constructive, original and proof-read writing is welcome from all quarters. Posting is at our discretion but we aim to have a range of contributors.

Comments Policy

We encourage robust debate about the issues, which will be the lifeblood of the site, but making comments is a privilege that depends upon individuals’ behaviour. Ideal comments are constructive, witty, informative and/or analytical. Personal abuse, threats, excessive repetition or general rudeness will lead to comments being removed or commenters banned, entirely at our discretion. We will not do so lightly, but nor will we allow trolls to ruin others’ experience. We will moderate anyone’s first comment, so please be patient about its appearance on the site. Once we approve your first post , subsequent comments will be posted straight away – this policy is simply to stop spam.

Education Directions’ Interests

Education Directions Ltd runs this blog, so it will inevitably be influenced by our work. We work within the tertiary education sector and with industry groups, government agencies and other players. We will not always be able to name our clients, even though our reading and thinking might be influenced by that current work, so you’ll need to read this with a critical eye (as we’d expect!). That said, we don’t carry out advocacy and PR work, and most of our guest bloggers will have no commercial relationship with Education Directions Ltd, so it’s not a biggie.

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Education Directions Ltd (ED) improves tertiary education's impact on lifting workforce productivity. We do that by linking the key players in tertiary education through information, strategy and policy.

ED Blog is for people working in and around NZ tertiary education who care about policy, strategy and results. Comments and guest posts are welcome. If you have a news tip, please contact us.

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    Employment organisations say a change to funding tertiary insitutions party on student performace will result in a better qualified workforce. […]
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    Telford Rural Polytechnic is considering merging with Canterbury's Lincoln University, as the tertiary shake-up and funding cuts squeeze the Balclutha institution. […]
  • Joyce moves to soothe Maori Party March 14, 2010
    Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has headed off a row with the Maori Party over planned changes to higher education. Party co-leader Pita Sharples had said he feared wananga courses would be axed. […]
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    Source: Close Up Watch (1) Source: Close UpLabour Party's Education spokeswoman Maryan Street WATCH the video (7:08) Slacking students, nonsense courses and student loans are all in the government's sights as the new Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce makes his mark. […]
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    An international team of researchers, including University of Otago archaeologists Chris Jacomb and Richard Walter, has successfully isolated ancient Moa DNA. […]
  • Minister Will Pay For Roads But Not Education March 14, 2010
    Yesterday Steven Joyce, the minister of tertiary education said that he was "acutely aware of how important better educational outcomes for our young people are to strengthening our economy for the future" but then went on to say "it is highly unlikely that there will be any significant cash injections in... […]
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    A $25 million budget cut to the Ministry of Education will lead to redundancies and a greater need to focus on efficiency, Education Minister Anne Tolley announced today. […]
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    Why don’t Dunedin’s teen parents have your support Tariana? Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran today accused Associate Social Development Minister Tariana Turia of hypocrisy and a lack of consistency in supporting a North Island teen parenting programme, while not supporting the sole Dunedin programme... […]
  • No plans to cut courses - Joyce March 14, 2010
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