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18 Nov 2011

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. Labour Policy Labour released training policy. Whitireia Settlement Whitireia has reached a new employment agreement with TEU members. Commercialisation Auckland has an interesting new Masters in Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship. It… Read Full Story.

News 14/11 – Aoraki IR/Review. Killer Plagues. Nurse Burnout.

14 Nov 2011

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 students are happy with Te Wananga O Raukawa. New Services Academies Anne Tolley has announced 8 new Services Academies in schools. Seismic Survey Otago Poly’s building should be OK in… Read Full Story.

News 9/11 – Unitec Trades Boost. Building Evacuated. CSI Otago.

9 Nov 2011

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 gasfitting and quantity surveying. They’re doing it to meet Christchurch needs amongst other things. RIP Phil Capper Phil Capper, educational thinking and long-time director of WEB Research dies last week. Stuart Middleton has a tribute to… Read Full Story.

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Tags: AUT, CPIT, EIT, ETITO, Massey University, NMIT, NZUSA, Otago Polytechnic, UCOL, Unitec, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington, WITT, Youth

News 4/11 – The VC’s Pay. IRL’s Future. Agriculture Footprint.

4 Nov 2011

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 guarantee anything. Unemployment NZUSA has joined a group to reject youth unemployment (group’s release, Stuff). Unitec’s Keith Rankin also wrote about unemployment. Otago Poly is part of a Dunedin consortium… Read Full Story.

News 2/11 – Xmas Completions. 4000 Year Donation.

2 Nov 2011

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 Google Alerts I set up last night start operating – should all be fine by tomorrow. Policy & Management Aoraki Changes The ODT has a story about how Aoraki should… Read Full Story.

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Tags: ACE, Aoraki Polytechnic, EIT, FITEC, Labour, Lincoln University, Massey University, National, Otago Polytechnic, Retail Institute, TEU, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, WITT

News 31/10 – Big ITO News. UCOL Design Review. The Hagfish.

31 Oct 2011

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 lead to refinements as the stories and headings are aligned. The headings should make the news posts work better for the wide range of people who read it J Policy &… Read Full Story.

News 26/10 – Otago EFTS Down. R J Scott Medal. Fulbright Scholars.

26 Oct 2011

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 down about 330 for 2011, but that’s mainly due to them limiting entrants after above plan growth in recent years. R J Scott Medal AUT’s Prof Stephen Henry has won… Read Full Story.

News 21/10 – Demolish, Build. Quake & Religion. WITT in the News.

21 Oct 2011

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. Demolish, Build Fresh from announcing the demolition of two buildings, Canterbury is building a new one, as long as the resource consents go through (Gerry Brownlee can sort that out… Read Full Story.

News 20/10 – Demolition. Big ABs. Start Digging.

20 Oct 2011

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 Pacific Islands teams. His arguments aren’t that great but the overall point has some strength, even if the issue is driven by other things (ie money). Big ABs Massey has… Read Full Story.

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Tags: AUT, EIT, ITF, Lincoln University, Massey University, NMIT, NZUSA, PPTA, UCOL, Unitec, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, WITT, Youth Guarantee

News 17/10 – Rena Grounding. Tourism Dropped. Compulsory English?

17 Oct 2011

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 to all those involved. Quake Skateboard A Canterbury engineering student has designed a skateboard to deal with quake-created terrain. Rena Grounding Over 1,000 birds have died and 130 have been… Read Full Story.

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