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2 Aug 2011

CPIT 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 their meeting yesterday (RNZ has the numbers at 130, but it’s a lot anyway). CPIT and the TEU have put out duelling media releases. And this morning The Press has… Read Full Story.

Labour’s Building Folly

27 Jul 2011

Labour’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 published a few days after the ITO announced that Canterbury construction trainees were shooting up! Labour has been a weak Opposition over tertiary education issues and it would be better for the country if they gave the… Read Full Story.

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Tags: BCITO, Construction, Labour, Minister - Tert. Ed, TEC

News 26/7 – Climate of Freedom. Snow Day. No Quake Escape.

26 Jul 2011

FYI I have a new role as a board member of Careerforce, an ITO that serves the health, disability and aged support sectors. I’m planning to pick up a few more directorships across the tertiary education sector , but will still stay out of any lobbying role. Since Careerforce doesn’t get in the news very often, I don’t think it will affect… Read Full Story.

News 25/7 – Does Crime Pay? Circus is Off. Is UCOL Crumbling?

25 Jul 2011

Does Crime Pay Not at Victoria, Uni, where the TEU is campaigning against the closure of Victoria’s Crime and Justice Research Centre as well as some other changes (see details here). I must take my hat off to the TEU for presenting their case so clearly at the second link. In most of these cases there’s just a… Read Full Story.

News 21/7 – Apprentice Boost? HRC $$. Finger-Knitting.

21 Jul 2011

Apprentice Boost? Labour’s Clare Curran has blogged about a new procurement policy that seems to include skills. If you read the policy, Labour proposes to “require companies providing goods and services to the government to have an apprenticeship/internship programme in place for NZ workers”. It’s an interesting idea that has been tried before in limited circumstances (like some… Read Full Story.

Will Pilot Training PTEs Split from ITPs?

18 Jul 2011

Pilot training PTEs may split from their relationships with ITPs due to a new TEC funding allocation process. The funding rules that have bound the PTEs tightly to ITPs have been removed so we will see whether a strong relationship has grown from the initial purely financial links. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, there was… Read Full Story.

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Tags: Ardmore Flying School, Aviation, EIT, Massey University, NMIT, SIT, TEC, Whitireia Community Polytechnic

News 21/6 – Most Trusted? Maori Trade Training. Lobbying Questioned.

21 Jun 2011

Drug Bust An Otago Poly student was found with $15-20,000 of cannabis (NB Police estimate, probably inflated and based on street value) in Cromwell last October. He got off with six months community detention. Most Trusted? It may seem nice that 3 scientists, two affiliated with unis, topped the Readers’ Digest most trusted list, but one would hope… Read Full Story.

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Tags: ACG, ACT, CPIT, ETITO, ITF, Labour, Massey University, Metros, NorthTec, Otago Polytechnic, SIT, University of Auckland, University of Otago, University of Waikato, VSM, Wintec

News 20/6 – CHCH101. Kronic 2 The Home. Lead Shot Ban?

20 Jun 2011

CHCH101 Canterbury’s paper on rebuilding Christchurch has stirred some comment about whether it is easy credits or a great way to integrate real life into academic study (RNZ) – quite a few reader comments too. Kronic 2 The Home A company is delivering Kronic to Dunedin student flats. On that note, an Otago Poly student who recently died… Read Full Story.

News 7/6 – ITO Review, QB Honours. VSM.

7 Jun 2011

ITO Review Steven Joyce has ordered a sweeping review of the ITO system, with the MOE to start it soon. He also referred to sale of quals and falsification of results as a new trend – hmm, maybe new to him, but I’ve heard about if for over a decade. Plumbing Stoush Garry Cruickshank, a former Unitec head… Read Full Story.

News 16/5 – Tighter Loans. Handley to Crete. ITP $$ + TEU-Wintec Stoush.

16 May 2011

Tighter Loans Steven Joyce has given more detail on student loan tightening, which will include stopping over 55s borrowing for living costs, and tightening borrowing for student pilots and those who borrowed previously. This should reduce the loans write-off from 47c to 43c in the dollar and save $60m pa. Handley to Crete WITT CE Richard Handley is… Read Full Story.

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