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News 10 Mar – Joyce’s big bang, great gardens and science prizes

In: Export Education| Funding| Quality Assurance

10 Mar 2010

Steven Joyce, Minister of Tertiary Education, made announcements yesterday that tertiary tuition funding will be linked to performance (5-10% will be at risk), confirmed decisions about the targeted review of qualifications and repeated recent musings about limiting student loan access. He also made his first major speech. I commented yesterday on announcements. Reaction to the Minister has been swift!

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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 [...]

News 25 Feb – Ag ITO Keeps Numbers Up and VC Infallibility

In: Export Education| Policy| Research

25 Feb 2010

Enrolments The Agriculture ITO managed to keep trainee  numbers up during last year’s recession, with only a small dip – impressive given tight employment conditions. UCOL has had 500 (19%) more enrolment applications  to date this year than last, with rejected students facing a long wait.
Orientation Review of SIT Orientation and regular annual Police checkpoint for old cars [...]

News 23 Feb – VSM, Cool Student Film and PPTA Attacks Tolley (again)

In: Export Education| Funding| Policy| Research

23 Feb 2010

The English language school GEOS New Zealand has apparently been sold by its Japanese owners to one of its NZ managers. I’m working off rumour on this one, via the Let’s Japan blog (see the last comments). I referred to the closure of GEOS Australia closure in a post a few weeks back. Offshore agents have [...]

News 18 Feb – NZQA and TEC go to Parliament

In: Export Education| Funding| Parliament| Policy| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education

18 Feb 2010

The TEC doesn’t know how tertiary enrolments are looking, or so said Roy Sharp to the Education and Science Committee yesterday. Since TEC’s investment managers will have been contacting all of the bigger providers, I’m sure Roy does have some good indications of enrolments, but obviously he wasn’t asked the right questions (or they weren’t [...]

Australia – Skill Shortages and Export Education

In: Export Education

16 Feb 2010

Australia is facing turmoil in its export education industry due to immigration changes, which may create opportunities for NZ providers.
Many of the people who  study overseas want to stay after they finish study. It’s usually a good deal, as graduates enter the workforce with the host country not having paid for any of their childhood, [...]

NZQA’s Good Job on Language Schools

In: Export Education| Policy

4 Feb 2010

I’ve criticised NZQA in the past about their work with English language schools (ELS) and not just when I represented the ELS sector. NZQA has been guilty of implementing some poorly designed systems over the years and following up very quickly. To be fair, the last Labour government shot from the hip on this issue [...]

Quebec Fast-tracks Grads’ Citizenship

In: Export Education

3 Feb 2010

Quebec is offering degree graduates from its universities a fast-track to citizenship. As long as grads pass federal health and security checks, they will get citizenship. Immigration policy is a key element of export education marketing and Quebec’s premier promoted this policy in Mumbai on Monday, obviously targeting Indian students disenchanted with Australia. The story [...]


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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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