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News 23/7 – Massey Shuts Door! SIT Shuts Gate! Talkback Radio Gets New Topic!
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| Politics| Research| Universities
23 Jul 2010Massey 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 [...]
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 [...]
Allan Peachey Speaks Out on Uni Entry
In: Politics| Universities
29 Jun 2010Those of you familiar with Allan Peachey, ex Rangitoto College principal and current National MP, might not be surprised that he is speaking out, but he has been pretty quiet recently. He chairs the Education and Science Committee, which he does well from my experience, but otherwise has had a low profile. A blog post [...]
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- Tags: Allan Peachey, National, Open Entry, VSM
News 24/6 – Falling Demand? Not Dr Fujimori. Homepathy Scandal.
In: Funding| ITPs| Parliament| Politics| Quality Assurance| Research| Students| TEI External Evaluation & Review| Universities
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 22/6 – NZITP Op-Ed, Feelgood Story & Partying Students
In: Export Education| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Politics| Research| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities
22 Jun 2010NZITP Op-Ed James Buwalda of NZITP, a group representing 14 ITPs, had an opinion piece published yesterday on Stuff. One of the commenters on the story gave a harsh review of it, saying that it didn’t convey a clear opinion, but I assume it’s a soft piece designed to rehabilitate ITPs. BY itself, I don’t [...]
News 16/6 – Grant Robertson, Rita Angus & SkyCity
In: Export Education| ITPs| Industry Input| Politics| Research| Students| Universities
16 Jun 2010Labour Spokesperson It’s confirmed – Grant Robertson is the new Labour spokesperson on tertiary education. Most stories focus on other players, such as these from NZPA, NZPA (2), GayNZ.com, the ODT, Kiwiblog and many more that I haven’t listed. There’s some background on Grant in the Press. Best quote from Grant was “There are lots of issues [...]
News 15/6 – New Labour Tertiary Ed Spokesperson?
15 Jun 2010Labour Shuffle The shuffle of Labour responsibilities after the expenses scandal demotions will probably lead to Grant Robertson getting the tertiary education portfolio from Maryan Street (who will get foreign affairs), according to the Dominion Post and NZ Herald, although the Herald suggests that Grant still might get foreign affairs. I’ve known Grant since we [...]
New PPTA Video Hilariously Unfunny
In: Politics
8 Jun 2010The PPTA released a video over the weekend apparently criticising Bill English, Anne Tolley and Steven Joyce but it really does have some dire dialogue. The 50 second video revolves around some PPTA protestors holding up signs like “Education for All” which are finally ignored by the Ministers turning out the lights. I challenge any [...]
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Reshaping the Adult and Community Education (ACE) Market
In: Funding| Policy| Politics| Strategy & Policy
22 Feb 2010National’s move to cut funding for adult and community education (ACE) will reshape, rather than destroy, the ACE market. This post looks at the backstory, the value of ACE and how the market might change. There is a sister post to this one by Matt Nolan at The Visible Hand in Economics blog, who reviews a report on [...]
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- Tags: ACE
New Minister for Tertiary Education Steven Joyce was on Morning Report today. He was preceded by a report on the government’s push for trade training.
The lead-in report covered Business NZ’s Phil O’Reilly (we need more choices), the ITF’s Jeremy Baker (vocational quals need to lead to a job – let’s ensure value for money), the PPTA’s [...]
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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
- Sex and the Homestay Host
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