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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 [...]
NZQA Chases PTEs and ITPQ
In: PTEs| Quality Assurance
19 Jul 2010NZQA is targeting 42 PTES that have not met a June 30 deadline for filing papers relating to their accounts and quality processes. This mirrors a process applied earlier to PTEs that missed a 31 March deadline, although it now seems to be being applied sooner after the deadline. If they don’t supply the data they [...]
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Assigned Reading: Rick Ede
In: Funding
19 Jul 2010The 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 [...]
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News 19/7 – Graduate Outcomes Debate Goes On: Someone Supports It!
In: Export Education| Funding| ITPs| Research| Students| Universities
19 Jul 2010Funding 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 [...]
How Not to Kill Possums
In: Research
18 Jul 2010An application has been made to replace 1080 with “ashes from hundreds of possum skins”. The “method requires an understanding of how energies from the universe affect life on Earth,” the funding application said. “The appropriate alignment of Earth, Moon, Venus and Scorpio at the time of burning is necessary if the method is to [...]
Joyce Superbly Shifts the Focus
In: Policy| Politics| Strategy & Policy
16 Jul 2010Student services fees may have had the early running as an issue out of Steven Joyce’s tertiary education policy speech on Wednesday, but the graduate outcomes issue has surged into the lead. In the process, Joyce is showing off his political skills.
You can pick up some of the coverage in this morning’s news post, but [...]
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 2010Joyce’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 2010Since 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 2010Steven 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 14/7 – Top Designers, Leeks and Penguins
In: Funding| ITPs| Research| Students| Universities
14 Jul 2010James Dyson Awards The three finalists in the NZ James Dyson Awards have been announced. You can view Tri-Cast, Wanderest and Lucid Wakeboard Binding here. The winner will be announced on 22 July and will go on to the international competition.
Elam’s 60th The University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts is celebrating the 60th anniversary [...]
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- Dean Carroll: I agree Darel; another positive externality. I also think that Dave overstates the barriers. Surely [...]
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- Dean Carroll: I too think that this is an excellent idea as it (a) focuses on the effective and efficiency of the [...]
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