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News 5 Mar – CRIs, VSM and ITO Governance

In: ITOs| Quality Assurance

5 Mar 2010

Waynne Smith’s post on ITO issues yesterday raised some good issues and so have the comments – check it out if you haven’t already.

CRI Taskforce A big report was released yesterday reviewing Crown Research Institutes. Responses have come from the NZVCC and Science NZ. I was surprised to see the NZVCC so conciliatory, given that the report proposes [...]

ITO CEO Responds to Industry Training Post

In: ITOs

4 Mar 2010

Wayne Smith, CEO of Tranzqual, responds to Dave Guerin’s Monday post on industry training.
Dave Guerin’s recent blog on ITOs hitting a rough patch is largely fair comment.
We all know that well over a decade ago the then government embarked on a journey to “get more people into tertiary education.”  That strategy was all about quantity [...]

News 3 Mar – Whitireia Council, GEOS and completions

In: Export Education| ITOs| TEI Issues

3 Mar 2010

Whitireia Community Polytechnic is having open nominations for the four non-Ministerial Council places. The Council statute shows that none of the four places have been reserved for any group or role.
In other news from Whitireia, staff there have recently completed a report on an evaluation of programmes that support nurses in their first year of work. The media [...]

ITOs Hit Rough Patch

In: ITOs| Policy

1 Mar 2010

Industry training organisations (ITOs) and Modern Apprenticeships are getting some negative press, which is a byproduct of them moving from a sheltered policy environment to a more accountable one. ITOs do good things, but they have been helped and hampered by uncritical analysis of their performance, and by flattering comparison of them to the missteps [...]

News 20 Feb – Media Control, Maori Success and Software Faults

In: Funding| ITOs| Policy| Tertiary Education

20 Feb 2010

In a media control move worthy of Tiger Woods, OUSA is seeking to control footage of Orientation events so that broadcasters can’t show “severe intoxication . . . including, but not limited to vomiting, concussion, fighting, individuals receiving medical attention, and sexually explicit material”. It probably sounded good when it was approved but (a) it [...]

News 16 Feb – vet bonding, prefects and boats

In: Funding| ITOs

16 Feb 2010

Radio NZ reports on a veterinarian bonding scheme that has been expanded to include any practice treating production animals, rather than just six specific rural areas. While this may not be good for cats and parrots, it’s interesting to see such a clear split between support for business versus personal needs in an industry, especially [...]

News Beat 11 Feb – Maori King at Bay of Plenty Poly

In: ITOs| Tertiary Education

11 Feb 2010

The Maori King will today open a new building at Bay Of Plenty Polytechnics’s Windermere campus, to house the University of Waikato’s staff in Tauranga. The building is named after Maharaia Winiata, and the link provides detail about his achievements.
Following up on the note on the University of Otago’s disciplinary record yesterday, two Virginia students [...]

News Beat 9 Feb

In: ITOs| Industry Groups| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education

9 Feb 2010

This is the tertiary education news beat for today – upcoming posts today will cover booming enrolments and the new(ish) Tertiary Education Strategy.

Darel Hall’s first post for ED Blog yesterday went viral after it was picked up by Russell Brown at Public Address - welcome to the hundreds of new readers and congrats to Darel on a [...]


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  • naked and off his trolley March 10, 2010
    Previous | Image 1 of 5 | Next Nadine Amsler (17) in trolley and Peter Ralph (19), both of Bay of Islands, cause a stir. Shedding clothes could not quite help University of Otago students Peter Ralph (19) and Nadine Amsler (17), both of the Bay of Islands, to the top spot in the K-Mart Trolley Race in... […]
  • Kiwis sticking with school for longer March 10, 2010
    New Zealanders spend an average of 19.7 years in education, two years more than in 1999, an Education Ministry report shows. However, another study says participation rates in tertiary education have slightly declined. […]
  • Lecturer 'at the wrong place at the wrong time' March 10, 2010
    A Lincoln University lecturer killed in a car crash at Belfast on Friday was at the wrong place at the wrong time, her family says. Lyn Boddington, 50, died on Friday afternoon in a crash at the intersection of Main North Rd and Dickies Rd. […]
  • SIT media student's new movie poised to win hearts and minds March 10, 2010
    Saturday night marked the debut of third-year SIT Digital Media student Matt Inns' second short feature Oku Tuakana, My Brothers at Centrestage in Invercargill. […]
  • NZUSA... Coming To A Town Near You March 10, 2010
    National student leaders will be helping students save their services as they visit campuses around the country this month. NZUSA is visiting member associations and their institutions from Auckland to Dunedin in a fortnight-long tour of universities, polytechnics, and institutes of technology. […]
  • Auckland University Should Look To Government March 10, 2010
    Auckland University Should Look To Government, Not Students, For Money Staff and students shouldn't be competing for the same money, says TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs. […]
  • Grind turns doodle to sculpture March 10, 2010
    Take one doodle, add copious amounts of blisters and sweat over almost three years, and you get Christian Hunt's new sculpture at Massey University. The Oamaru stone sculpture stands behind the new Te Waiora centre, a place for students to explore spirituality. […]
  • Overseas Universities Luring Kiwi Students March 10, 2010
    Overseas Universities Luring Kiwi Students “The low cost university system that our children access today risks becoming the poor quality system that our grandchildren desert tomorrow,” says the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Auckland, Professor Stuart McCutcheon. […]
  • Home at last March 10, 2010
    An Otago Peninsula yellow-eyed penguin attacked by a shark at the end of January is welcomed home to Dunedin by Department of Conservation biodiversity ranger Mel Young yesterday, while Willis Ratahi, of Air New Zealand, looks on. […]
  • Tertiary Education Reforms Long Overdue March 10, 2010
    Like thousands of other parents around the country I've delivered my university aged children to their respective universities in the past couple of weeks. […]
  • Leading Education Agents Visit NZ March 10, 2010
    Putting New Zealand in the Education Spotlight as 50 Leading Education Agents Visit NZ Click to enlarge “The best way to sell New Zealand as a study destination is to let people see it with their own eyes,” declares Robert Stevens, Chief Executive of Education New Zealand. […]
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