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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 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 14/6 – New CPIT CEO & Honey Dispute
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| Government on Industry| ITPs| PTEs| Research| Students| Universities
14 Jun 2010New CPIT CEO SkillsTech Australia director Kay Giles (pictured at left) will be the new CEO of CPIT, starting on August 9. She has headed the 10-campus Brisbane TAFE since Oct 2007, according to The Press, but the SkillsTech website puts it at 8 sites and Oct 08. SkillsTech is apparently the largest provider of trade [...]
News 10/6 – VC Leaving, Health Research $$ Coming and VSM
In: Funding| Government on Industry| ICT| Research| Staff| Universities
10 Jun 2010VC Steps Down Prof Sir David Skegg of the University of Otago will step down by July next year, a few years short of the end of this term (he will have done seven years). While the formal replacement search will start soon, you can sign up on Facebook for New Zealand’s Next Top Vice-Chancellor (HT [...]
News 31/5 – Massey Cuts Access Too, GEOS Loses in Court
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31 May 2010Massey Cuts Access Massey University is closing second semester enrolments early, cutting back summer school offerings and introducing preferential entry based on NCEA results next year. The Manawatu Daily Standard has a good story with reactions. There’s also a long story about access restrictions in general at Vic student paper Salient. The Dominion Post has [...]
News 15 Mar – Briefings to New Minister, Budget Lobbying Starts
In: Funding| Government on Industry| Policy| Research| Staff| Strategy & Policy
15 Mar 2010Joyce’s Briefings Steven Joyce released briefings given to him as the new Minister on Friday. There are nine papers for the curious. (I = ED Insider story)
Tertiary Education Reforms The Manawatu Standard has come out in support of performance-based funding for providers and for student loans. Martin Kay, political reporter, has written a lengthy piece [...]
News 15 Feb – sun loungers, coastal science and spanking
In: Government on Industry| ITPs| Policy| Research| Students| Universities
15 Feb 2010Photo by Miho Tsumakura
UCOL’s Andy Halewood has had his sun lounger accepted in a Waiheke Island-based design exhibition (picture below). I think it will get more media coverage than last year’s sideboard exhibition.
Following up on the beach theme, Environment Bay of Plenty is funding a professorial chair in coastal science at the University of Waikato. Waikato [...]
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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
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