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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 [...]

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 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 [...]

News 19/7 – Graduate Outcomes Debate Goes On: Someone Supports It!

In: Export Education| Funding| ITPs| Research| Students| Universities

19 Jul 2010

Funding for Outcomes: Negative Reaction continues about Steven Joyce’s proposal to look at linking graduate outcomes to funding some time in the future. And it amazes me how simplistic so many of the arguments are.

In an article on Manawatu opinions, UCOL CE Paul McElroy argued that a TEO shouldn’t be ”held wholly responsible for these outcomes through [...]

News 15/7 – It’s Steven Joyce Day!

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| Research| Strategy & Policy| Universities

15 Jul 2010

Steven Joyce Day I’m naming today Steven Joyce day because all the big stories today stem from his speech yesterday at Victoria University on tertiary education policy.

The Dom Post focused on the review of universities’ big extra student support fees (UCOL too from memory) as did the NZ Herald (NZPA had a piece too). VUW, AUT and [...]

News 12/7 – Waikato Uni Shuts Door

In: Export Education| Funding| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Staff| Students| Universities| Wananga

12 Jul 2010

Waikato Uni Shuts Door…to any more students in 2010, with 470 turned away for the second semester. 500, here, 1,000 there and pretty soon you have some big numbers that add up much like a hip replacement waiting list for a government. Maybe the government should have a strategy beyond shrugs.
Wintec Opens Door …to India, [...]

News 30/6 – Boys in Tertiary, Student Housing & Lost Coat of Arms

In: Export Education| Facilities & Equipment| ITOs| ITPs| Research| Students| Universities

30 Jun 2010

Engineering Girls, What About Boys? In another round of school holiday activities, the University of Auckland has had high school girls in to try out engineering – maybe they should invite boys in to try out university….Seriously, though, I think the event is a good idea but it does amaze me that we continue to focus [...]


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