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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

News 20/7 – Grad Outcomes, Sparrow Cull & Fire Dancing

In: Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Research| Students| Universities

20 Jul 2010

Graduate Outcomes Nandor Tanczos writes a blog on TV3’s website and his latest is on Joyce’s funding related to graduate outcomes idea (he doesn’t like it). I blogged yesterday on Unitec CE Rick Ede’s column and the TEU responded – check it out here.
Sparrow Cull The University of Auckland is culling sparrows in the cafeteria [...]

Assigned Reading: Rick Ede

In: Funding

19 Jul 2010

The best opinion piece of the day on tertiary education is by Rick Ede, Unitec CE – it supports a reasoned debate about outcomes in tertiary education. It has now gone up online at the NZ Herald. Go read the whole thing, but here are some excerpts. Great job, Rick!
The suggestion by Tertiary Education Minister [...]

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 16/7 – Joyce Day II, Wintec Carpark and TEU Corner

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| Research| Staff| Strategy & Policy| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities

16 Jul 2010

Joyce’s Ripples The ripples from Joyce’s speech continue to expand. Nelson teaching students, studying with the University of Canterbury, are happy with Joyce’s look at student services fees. They had already protested, and seemingly gained a reduction, in Canterbury’s fees, given that most of their time is spent in Nelson, where Canterbury has very few [...]

Student Services Fees – Rip-off or Beat-up?

In: Funding| ITPs| Students| Universities

15 Jul 2010

Since Steven Joyce had a major policy speech yesterday, I thought I’d cover his points of interest in posts over the next few days.
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce stated yesterday that he wanted to ”have a look at where institutions are heading with their compulsory non-academic levies on students”. He was concerned about recent high growth [...]

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 [...]


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