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In: Funding| ITOs| Industry Groups| Research| TEI Issues
12 Mar 2010Student Giveaway Waiariki Institute of Technology has given away a car as part of a promotion to encourage students to pay their fees early. Roberto Mura won the prize and is pictured with Waiariki CEO Pim Borren (on the right). I think this may be the biggest prize ever given out as part of a [...]
In: ITOs| Quality Assurance
5 Mar 2010Waynne 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 [...]
In: ITOs
4 Mar 2010Wayne 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 [...]
In: Export Education| ITOs| TEI Issues
3 Mar 2010Whitireia 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 [...]
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 [...]
In: Funding| ITOs| Policy| Tertiary Education
20 Feb 2010In 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 [...]
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 [...]
In: ITOs| Tertiary Education
11 Feb 2010The 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 [...]
In: ITOs| Industry Groups| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education
9 Feb 2010This 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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