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Will NZQA Close Six PTEs?

In: PTEs| Quality Assurance

30 Jul 2010

It seems like six PTEs are at risk of being closed for not keeping their paperwork up to date with NZQA. Last time NZQA went through this deadline process, it gave the last few stragglers more time to sort out their issues, but it might be firmer this time. A couple of weeks back, 42 PTEs [...]

News 29/7 – Intl Students Up, Student Loans & Food Safety

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| TEO Sector Groups| Universities| Wananga

29 Jul 2010

International Students Up International students were up 7%in the first four months of 2010, following a 6% rise in FY 2009. PTEs were up 8%, ITPs up 15% and unis up 4%. SIT is showing good growth this year, going from 220 international EFTS in 2009 to 259 so far this year, and is on [...]

News 28/7/10 – There was an Immigration Scandal (well, arrests anyway)

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Universities

28 Jul 2010

Forestry Awards The forestry ITO, FITEC, is getting ready for its national awards – they get top billing as the ITF conference starts in 5 minutes.
Student Debt John Key has criticised the nature of the student loan scheme – but no major details other than pointing out the 47% writeoff.
Immigration Arrests Yesterday I published an [...]

Immigration Scandal?

In: Export Education| PTEs| Quality Assurance

27 Jul 2010

I received an anonymous tipoff this morning that visa applications to a PTE had been suspended after a staff member had been arrested for “offences against the Immigration Act 1987 and the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007″. Since I can’t easily verify some aspects, I’ll leave out any details of the organisation named (and I’ll also carefully [...]

News 27/7 – Plane Crash & Unitec Sponsors Rugby

In: ITPs| Research| Students| Universities

27 Jul 2010

Library Wars Canterbury Uni law students have written a strong submission in support of the retention of their law librarian, who is caught up in the major library restructuring down there.
Plane Crash An instructor and a student died in a plane collision near Feilding yesterday, while the student pilot of the other plane managed to [...]

Sex and the Homestay Host

In: Export Education

23 Jul 2010

An Auckland man was naturally distraught to find his 45 year-old wife having sex with the 19 year-old South American international student that they were hosting (well, let’s be honest, charging rent and board). I’ll let the NZ Herald take it from here.
The North Shore man – who did not want to be named – [...]

News 23/7 – Massey Shuts Door! SIT Shuts Gate! Talkback Radio Gets New Topic!

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| Politics| Research| Universities

23 Jul 2010

Massey Shuts Door Grant Robertson (Labour) wrote last night that Massey had closed the door on summer school enrolments, because they had reached their funding cap. The Big News blog pointed out that classes that are not full (and many won’t be, given the previous closing date was November) will not be run. Massey’s announcement is here. The Dom [...]

News 22/7 – WITT Fees Up

In: Export Education| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Students| Universities

22 Jul 2010

WITT Fees up WITT has increased its fees by 4% across the board, but has not increased its $40 student services fee (or other fees). This is the first fees increase for next year that I’ve seen reported.
Capital Times A columnist in Wellington’s Capital Times likes Steven Joyce’s graduate outcomes idea, mainly for the focus [...]

News 21/7 – Education NZ Not Charitable

In: Export Education| ITPs| Industry Input| Students| Universities

21 Jul 2010

Education NZ Not Charitable That’s not my judgment, but the Charities Commission, which has not awarded them charitable status. It will make life a bit more inconvenient (and costly) for ENZ, but I’m happy that the new Charities Commission is being much tougher on who gets charitable status – ENZ is, after all, an export promotion [...]

PTE Funding – Why the 9.5% Discount?

In: Funding| PTEs

20 Jul 2010

This is the last post on elements of last week’s speech by Steven Joyce and covers the PTE funding discount of 9.5% (they get less than public providers) that the Minister wants to remove. I was doing lobbying work for a PTE group, NZAPEP, when this funding policy was introduced on Steve Maharey’s watch as [...]


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