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News 12 Mar – Students Get a Car, a Mock Funeral and Criticism

In: Funding| ITOs| Industry Groups| Research| TEI Issues

12 Mar 2010

Student 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 [...]

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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  • Industry groups support tertiary funding change March 14, 2010
    Employment organisations say a change to funding tertiary insitutions party on student performace will result in a better qualified workforce. […]
  • Tertiary cuts starting to bite March 14, 2010
    Telford Rural Polytechnic is considering merging with Canterbury's Lincoln University, as the tertiary shake-up and funding cuts squeeze the Balclutha institution. […]
  • Joyce moves to soothe Maori Party March 14, 2010
    Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has headed off a row with the Maori Party over planned changes to higher education. Party co-leader Pita Sharples had said he feared wananga courses would be axed. […]
  • Tertiary education set to receive shake up March 14, 2010
    Source: Close Up Watch (1) Source: Close UpLabour Party's Education spokeswoman Maryan Street WATCH the video (7:08) Slacking students, nonsense courses and student loans are all in the government's sights as the new Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce makes his mark. […]
  • Moa DNA successfully isolated March 14, 2010
    An international team of researchers, including University of Otago archaeologists Chris Jacomb and Richard Walter, has successfully isolated ancient Moa DNA. […]
  • Minister Will Pay For Roads But Not Education March 14, 2010
    Yesterday Steven Joyce, the minister of tertiary education said that he was "acutely aware of how important better educational outcomes for our young people are to strengthening our economy for the future" but then went on to say "it is highly unlikely that there will be any significant cash injections in... […]
  • Science New Zealand congratulates prizewinners March 14, 2010
    Science New Zealand congratulates winners of the inaugural Prime Minister’s Science Prizes Science New Zealand congratulates the winners of the first-ever Prime Minister’s Science Prizes – the Science Prize, Emerging Scientist’s Prize, Science Teacher’s Prize, the Science Media Communications Prize, and the.. […]
  • Education cuts will refocus on efficiency March 14, 2010
    A $25 million budget cut to the Ministry of Education will lead to redundancies and a greater need to focus on efficiency, Education Minister Anne Tolley announced today. […]
  • Top Award For NorthTec Design Student March 14, 2010
    NorthTec student is inaugural Ellerslie International Flower Show Student Designer of the Year NorthTec student Katie Hilford has been named Ellerslie International Flower Show Student Designer of the Year presented by Yates. […]
  • Dunedin teen parents don't have Turia's support March 14, 2010
    Why don’t Dunedin’s teen parents have your support Tariana? Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran today accused Associate Social Development Minister Tariana Turia of hypocrisy and a lack of consistency in supporting a North Island teen parenting programme, while not supporting the sole Dunedin programme... […]
  • No plans to cut courses - Joyce March 14, 2010
    A review of New Zealand's 6000 qualifications is likely to see courses change to fit a national qualification but there are no plans to slash the number on offer, Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says. […]
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