Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Policy & Management MIT Review It is review season and MIT has the latest one. TEU has released details of 28 potential job losses in a rightsizing review…. Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Apprenticeships A Retail Meat ITO board member is on the soapbox for a Stuff election story on apprenticeships. Raukawa Te Mana Akonga president says that… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Unitec Trades Boost Unitec will add 34% (more than a thousand) places in 2012 over 2011 in construction, civil engineering, carpentry, electrical engineering, plumbing and… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management The VC’s Pay…is big news in Dunedin. Canty Bailout? John Key said he wouldn’t fund Canterbury’s latest bailout request, while Phil Goff said he couldn’t… Read Full Story.

My media monitoring supplier celebrated the first day of our new contract by cutting off my access, so today’s post may miss a few things as some new… Read Full Story.

There are new headings in today’s post, developed during consultation over the last couple of weeks. I won’t define or finalise the headings yet as each day will… Read Full Story.

I hope you’re all keeping warm if the northern North Island gas leak has shut off your institution’s gas heating! Otago EFTS Down Otago Uni’s EFTS will be… Read Full Story.

Thanks to all those who filled in the ED Blog survey – well over 100 of you. I’ll close it at 5pm today and provide feedback next week…. Read Full Story.

Demolition Demolition of two buildings will start next week at Canterbury. Unfair IRB? AUT’s Rawiri Taonui had a NZ Herald op-ed arguing that the IRB is biased against… Read Full Story.

The Rena Grounding shows again the great contribution that academics can make to both understanding and addressing problems, and the willingness of students to volunteer to help. Congrats… Read Full Story.


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  • Stephen Day: I've just met the folks from NZUSA this morning, and I'm pretty sure we were/are on the same page wi [...]
  • Richard Hamilton-Williams: Tinkering with funding on the basis of the age of students doesn’t have a very successful track re [...]
  • dean: I loved that you started to question my own motives. BTW. [...]
  • dean: Well, err, um i was actually trying to point out how potentially futile ascribing motive to somethin [...]