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19 Dec 2011ED Blog will close up shop for the year on Friday and restart on 4 or 10 January (depends on how my break is going). Any coverage in… Read Full Story.
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25 Nov 2011I mused about the reason for the departure of the SMSS CE a few days ago but I found out she departed for completely personal reasons. I’ve deleted… Read Full Story.
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5 Sep 2011QS Rankings Otago Uni is up, the others are down and Auckland remains on top in the latest QS World University Rankings. Canterbury Skills The BCITO and Master… Read Full Story.
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22 Aug 2011Rod Oram wrote an opinion piece on industry training yesterday that sets out some strong views on industry training but also has some enormous errors. I often disagree… Read Full Story.
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19 Aug 2011$500K Course Grant Victoria has scored a $500K grant from MSI to help develop a new computer graphics option for its masters degree. The aim is to build… Read Full Story.
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11 Aug 2011UE Changes NZQA has changed University Entrance (UE) requirements, sparking comment from Business NZ, the Tourism Industry Assn (dislike) and Universities NZ (support) and stories from RNZ, Dom… Read Full Story.
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8 Aug 2011VSM Protest John Key opened the refurbished Bill Robertson Library at Otago Uni on Friday (which sounds like a great development). He was met by a protest against… Read Full Story.
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5 Aug 2011AUT Arrest The Police arrested AUT’s former employee Jonathan Kilpatrick and he appeared in the District Court on false accounting and related charges. It seems that he had… Read Full Story.
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2 Aug 2011CPIT Staff Do Strike The 220 TEU members at CPIT (or the ones who turned up to the stop-work meeting) decided to walk off the job straight after… Read Full Story.
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27 Jul 2011Labour’s Phil Goff and Clayton Cosgrove have criticised the Government over the plummeting number of building and construction trainees in Canterbury. Unfortunately their claims don’t stand up to basic analysis and were… Read Full Story.