ED Blog’s Focus

ED Blog is all about NZ tertiary education news and views, with a bias towards policy and management issues. Our weekday morning roundup of news on NZ tertiary education gives you a great overview of what’s going on. We also run posts on specific issues that interest Dave Guerin (the CEO/Education Strategist of ED) or valued guest authors. We seldom post at the weekend because 75% of our readers are doing other things.

Guest Posts

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. Writing your first post can be quite difficult, but it gets much easier the second time! We’re happy to offer advice and support.

Well-argued, constructive, original and proof-read writing relevant to tertiary education is welcome from all quarters, as long as it doesn’t get us into legal trouble. Posting is at our discretion but we’re very relaxed about posting controversial or opposing views.

News Tips and Suggestions

If you have a juicy news tip or a helpful suggestion, drop us a line via our contact form.

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 moderate anyone’s first comment, so please be patient about its appearance on the site – subsequent comments will be posted straight away (this policy is simply to stop spam).

Education Directions’ Interests

Education Directions Ltd  (ED) 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 lobby on behalf of anyone, so commercial interests are considerably less relevant than the personal interests of Dave Guerin.