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News 29/7 – Intl Students Up, Student Loans & Food Safety
In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| TEO Sector Groups| Universities| Wananga
29 Jul 2010International Students Up International students were up 7%in the first four months of 2010, following a 6% rise in FY 2009. PTEs were up 8%, ITPs up 15% and unis up 4%. SIT is showing good growth this year, going from 220 international EFTS in 2009 to 259 so far this year, and is on [...]
News 22/7 – WITT Fees Up
In: Export Education| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Students| Universities
22 Jul 2010WITT Fees up WITT has increased its fees by 4% across the board, but has not increased its $40 student services fee (or other fees). This is the first fees increase for next year that I’ve seen reported.
Capital Times A columnist in Wellington’s Capital Times likes Steven Joyce’s graduate outcomes idea, mainly for the focus [...]
News 21/7 – Education NZ Not Charitable
In: Export Education| ITPs| Industry Input| Students| Universities
21 Jul 2010Education 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 [...]
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Metros’ New Link with Business
8 Jul 2010The Metros’ Group of ITPs has taken a major positive step with the launch of their Innovating New Zealand website (see Metros’ media release here), which “will connect companies with a range of services, expert advice and staff training”. The site has been launched in cooperation with Business NZ and forms part of their new ManufacturingNZ [...]
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- Tags: Business NZ, Massey University, Metros, TEC
News 8/7 – Glass School Closure? Metros’ Big New Idea.
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ICT| ITPs| Industry Input| PTEs| Students| Universities
8 Jul 2010Metros’ New Idea The Metro ITP are formally launching their Innovation New Zealand network – I’ll write a full post on it later this morning.
Food Miles University of Otago researchers have found that, while food miles are of concern to the UK public, the belief does not translate into action in the supermarket aisles.
Wanganui Glass [...]
News 5/7 – SIT Hostel Scandal, Titanium Centre and Aoraki’s New Managers
In: Facilities & Equipment| Government on Industry| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Staff| Students| Universities
5 Jul 2010SIT Hostel Scandal The drama goes on, with conflicts of interest now alleged in the maintenance/quality problems at SIT’s associated Grand Hall of Residence. To be honest, the whole affair looks like a colossal muck-up by SIT, which has been slow to deal with this issue over the last few days. Last week SIT CE Penny Simmonds [...]
News 1/7 – Allowances Boom, ITP MECA and Skill Shortages
In: Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Staff| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities
1 Jul 2010Allowances Boom in 09 Steven Joyce was on Morning Report yesterday talking about student allowances increases in 2009, while NZUSA put out a release about it too. Allowances eligibility was loosened, while enrolments went up.
Tainui College The -Tainui College for Research and Development has its first academic director. The buildings were built ten years ago but [...]
News 29/6 – Terry Barnett, Cleaner Training and Cuts at Aoraki
In: Export Education| Funding| Government on Industry| ITOs| ITPs| Registration & Licensing| Research| Students| Universities
29 Jun 2010Tom Ryan of the TEU will have a guest post at 11am today on university entry.
Terry Barnett Honoured A group of student mentors at NorthTec have honured former CEO Terry Barnett (pictured) by presenting him with a patu rakau to recognise his support for student learning.
Training Cleans Up The Dom Post has a good story [...]
News 25/6 – PEDA, Low Pass Rates & Dirtiest Flat
In: Funding| ICT| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities
25 Jun 2010PEDA Affair Hits Tertiary You may have heard of the Pacific Economic Development Agency allocation in the Budget – $4.8m for a new body in a non-contestable allocation. It will cause National some problems for a while yet. Anyway, Auckland providers are starting to plan bids for the money, which will include “subcontracting with established [...]
News 18/6 – Uni Access, New Bill, Maharey Challenged and 20 more Stories
In: Export Education| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| PTEs| Parliament| Quality Assurance| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Universities
18 Jun 2010Welcome to all the new readers this week – we’ve had a wee spike in traffic – and let me know if you’d like to see anything new or different. Today’s post is pretty enormous to end the week.
Uni Access There’s a really good NZ Herald story today about university entrance, covering a wide range [...]
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- Dean Carroll: I agree Darel; another positive externality. I also think that Dave overstates the barriers. Surely [...]
- Darel: I agree Dean. I wonder if one of the side benefits is to get people constructively focused on t [...]
- Dean Carroll: I too think that this is an excellent idea as it (a) focuses on the effective and efficiency of the [...]
- Big News: My follow up to the Massey enrolment cuts is <a href="http://big-news.blogspot.com/2010/07/b [...]
- Sheldon Nesdale: All that news in just one day Dave? [...]
- ITF Proposes New School Quals
- Will NZQA Close Six PTEs?
- News 30/7 – Grumpy Students and Staff to End the Week (Plus Horses)
- News 29/7 – Intl Students Up, Student Loans & Food Safety
- News 28/7/10 – There was an Immigration Scandal (well, arrests anyway)
- Immigration Scandal?
- News 27/7 – Plane Crash & Unitec Sponsors Rugby
- Cool Student Video – Sub With a Twist
- News 26/7 – Massey and Otago Entry Issues
- Sex and the Homestay Host
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