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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 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 [...]
News 25 Feb – Ag ITO Keeps Numbers Up and VC Infallibility
In: Export Education| Policy| Research
25 Feb 2010Enrolments 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 [...]
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News 23 Feb – VSM, Cool Student Film and PPTA Attacks Tolley (again)
In: Export Education| Funding| Policy| Research
23 Feb 2010The 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 [...]
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- Tags: ACE, Students, VSM
News 18 Feb – NZQA and TEC go to Parliament
In: Export Education| Funding| Parliament| Policy| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education
18 Feb 2010The 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 [...]
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- Tags: ITPs, NZQA, TEC, Universities
Australia – Skill Shortages and Export Education
In: Export Education
16 Feb 2010Australia 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, [...]
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- Tags: Australia, Immigration
NZQA’s Good Job on Language Schools
In: Export Education| Policy
4 Feb 2010I’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 [...]
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- Tags: NZQA, PTEs
Quebec Fast-tracks Grads’ Citizenship
In: Export Education
3 Feb 2010Quebec 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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