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News 24/6 – Falling Demand? Not Dr Fujimori. Homepathy Scandal.
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24 Jun 2010Superb Competition Victoria University has just finished a great project involving one of my old lecturers. Vic students led each of 68 teams made up of students from throughout the world who met online and developed business proposals. The winning team had a plan for Kenyan villages to create cosmetics out of a grain. It’s just [...]
News 18/6 – Uni Access, New Bill, Maharey Challenged and 20 more Stories
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18 Jun 2010Welcome to all the new readers this week – we’ve had a wee spike in traffic – and let me know if you’d like to see anything new or different. Today’s post is pretty enormous to end the week.
Uni Access There’s a really good NZ Herald story today about university entrance, covering a wide range [...]
News 3/6 – Lost Thumb, Whips, Cheese Rolls and Clean Streams
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3 Jun 2010I’d like to start today by expressing my sorrow at the death of Jiayi Li, a Chinese student who came here to learn and grow, but lost her life.
Uni Not Only Option So says the Industry Training Federation, which points out that limited university entrance is not the end of the world.
Zero Fees in Queenstown [...]
ACE Goes to Parliament
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24 Mar 2010I went to the Education and Science Committee today at Parliament to see presentation of petitions on adult and community education (ACE). It was, much as I expected, a waste of time. The petitions were signed and presented last year when the issue was still alive, but now the funding has been cut and there’s [...]
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News 18 Feb – NZQA and TEC go to Parliament
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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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- Dean Carroll: I agree Darel; another positive externality. I also think that Dave overstates the barriers. Surely [...]
- Darel: I agree Dean. I wonder if one of the side benefits is to get people constructively focused on t [...]
- Dean Carroll: I too think that this is an excellent idea as it (a) focuses on the effective and efficiency of the [...]
- Big News: My follow up to the Massey enrolment cuts is <a href="http://big-news.blogspot.com/2010/07/b [...]
- Sheldon Nesdale: All that news in just one day Dave? [...]
- ITF Proposes New School Quals
- Will NZQA Close Six PTEs?
- News 30/7 – Grumpy Students and Staff to End the Week (Plus Horses)
- News 29/7 – Intl Students Up, Student Loans & Food Safety
- News 28/7/10 – There was an Immigration Scandal (well, arrests anyway)
- Immigration Scandal?
- News 27/7 – Plane Crash & Unitec Sponsors Rugby
- Cool Student Video – Sub With a Twist
- News 26/7 – Massey and Otago Entry Issues
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