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28 Feb 2012Waikato has saved 57 trees through emailing their accounts – how many trees have you saved? Policy, Management & People New Marae…opened at Wintec (Waikato Times). Top Chef? Aoraki’s Iain Bamber made the top 25 of MasterChef. Carpooling…at Canterbury. Extras: Pacific Trades Scholarships funding of $6m – how many times will this be announced? (RNZI); Waikato’s Prof Jacqueline… Read Full Story.
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27 Feb 2012Students are apparently fleeing NZ and while Auckland’s Stats Chat debunks the survey results a little, the overall figure align with recent MOE research I reviewed for ED Insider. We do, as we know, have a real problem of grads going, and staying, offshore. Policy, Management & People Student Fee Problem The NZ Herald had a story at… Read Full Story.
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21 Feb 2012Mayumi Asakawa will ring the Peace Bell at a Christchurch quake commemoration tomorrow. She is a former King’s Education student. Policy, Management & People Christchurch Mergers? Steven Joyce called for Christchurch TEIs to look at all possible options, including mergers, as they look to the next 20 years. The merger option is for the unis. Top $ A… Read Full Story.
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17 Feb 2012A former King’s Education student will come from Japan will play a part in a commemorative ceremony next week. Policy, Management & People Christchurch Trades A Christchurch trades academy based at CPIT can take on another 350 students, taking the roll to 500. Student Debt The Dom Post debunked student debt myths – good article. Equine-Ag Merger The… Read Full Story.
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16 Feb 2012The Crafar farms sale was blocked by the High Court yesterday. Readers may not be aware that the Overseas Investment Office rated the two jobs from the proposed dairy farm training facility as the most certain to eventuate from the sale (see first para, p.14 here) and the High Court rated the training facility as one of the… Read Full Story.
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9 Feb 2012I’m now starting news posts with a top story and today’s is the great op-ed in the ODT about student flats from OUSA president Logan Edgar. Comms people could learn a thing or two from this guy – so could I. Policy, Management & People Waiariki Art Waiariki launched a new art collection last night – I’ll write more later. Liquor Ban… Read Full Story.
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31 Jan 2012Today’s Spotlight is on Pat Walsh, the Chair of Universities New Zealand (and VC of Victoria University of Wellington). Spotlight is a series of posts where ED Blog asks 5 questions of interesting people in tertiary education (see other posts in the series). 1. What’s the biggest challenge for Universities New Zealand right now? Continuing to build on… Read Full Story.
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27 Jan 2012I had a lovely day yesterday facilitating a TROQ planning session in the sport, recreation and fitness area – was great to catch up with such a wide cross-section of people from the sector. Policy, Management & People Self-Indulgent Education? A Stuff blogger is going back to study (after having 2 degrees already) and invites her readers to… Read Full Story.
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19 Jan 2012Policy, Management & People PEI Post-Mortem The Taranaki Daily News did an editorial and story on Practical Education Institute yesterday. They have finally found TEC course completion stats on TEC’s website and it’s interesting that it’s only now, exactly a month after they first broke the story, that they found those figures. It reinforces for me how poorly… Read Full Story.
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18 Jan 2012Policy, Management & People PEI There are more stories on Practical Education Institute’s closure from RNZ (2,700 students and 700 EFTS, with 80% being on the course for which funding was cut), NewstalkZB and NZN. Whitireia Theatre The local community paper has a story on Whitireia’s pulling out of funding a local theatre and I do love the… Read Full Story.