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15 Sep 2011Students Protest! The students at Victoria had a noisy protest yesterday, although seemingly helped along a bit by Workers Party types. Seems about 300 turned up to hear… Read Full Story.
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13 Sep 2011Coffee Roasting Waikato PhD student Cameron Kelly is checking out how to automate coffee roasting, although his supervisor Prof Jonathan Scott hogged the story. e-Cigarettes Auckland’s Chris Bullen is… Read Full Story.
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12 Sep 2011King’s Education The Press had a great profile of several students and staff from Japan’s Toyama College of Foreign Languages who survived the collapse of King’s Education’s building…. Read Full Story.
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2 Sep 2011Sorry for the delay today – the car had a flat battery and the AA guy suggested I drive it for 45 minutes to recharge it, so the… Read Full Story.
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31 Aug 2011There have been stories and rumours since the February quake about potential budget cuts at the University of Canterbury, with related job cuts. This post reviews the facts… Read Full Story.
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31 Aug 2011King’s Education It’s a harrowing read, but the Coroner yesterday detailed the causes of death for 64 students, with 17 dying from the effect of fire (NZPA, RNZ)…. Read Full Story.
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30 Aug 2011This is the first in a series of posts on tertiary education in post-quake Christchurch (PQ Chch). I’m starting with a review of international student numbers, because those… Read Full Story.
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18 Aug 2011AUT Fraud Plea Ex-AUT staffer Jonathan Kirkpatrick pleaded guilty to 7 fraud charges relating to $665,000 yesterday. He gave no reason for the theft but his lawyer said… Read Full Story.
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15 Aug 2011Snow Closures Lincoln is closed today due to snow (see picture), as is Canterbury and CPIT. RIP Sir Paul Reeves AUT Chancellor Sir Paul Reeves died of cancer… Read Full Story.
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12 Aug 2011No NZQA-ERO Merger Various agencies were approved for merger yesterday by Cabinet, but NZQA and ERO were not included and the merger is now off the table. Good… Read Full Story.