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Is NZQA Usurping Property Rights?

In: Quality Assurance

9 Jun 2010

NZQA could be usurping property rights or it could have made a typo, but the former option makes a better headline and seems much more likely as well. NZQA released an update on the NZ Qualifications Framework (NZQF) implementation last Tuesday and I’ve provided an excerpt from p.14 below. (NB This probably just refers to [...]

NZQA’s Blacklist Down to 7 PTEs

In: Quality Assurance

9 Jun 2010

NZQA’s hard line on PTEs is bearing fruit. It started off with 41 PTEs that it had threatened to deregister or place conditions, but the list was down to 7 yesterday, with only a day or two to go before the deadline. I made supportive comments about the approach last week.

News 4/6 – Storing Sauvignon, Staff Shakeups and Singing

In: Export Education| PTEs| Quality Assurance| Research| Staff| Universities

4 Jun 2010

Jiayi Li A third arrest has been made in connection with the murder of Chinese student Jiayi Li. Reports are also being sought by the MOE from the education institutions that she was enrolled with during her time in NZ, but that really does seem like butt-covering to me. Are we really going to find [...]

NZQA Gets Tough on PTEs

In: PTEs| Quality Assurance

2 Jun 2010

NZQA is taking a tough line on private training establishments (PTEs) that have failed to meet their reporting requirements. 41 PTEs were issued compliance notices on 25-26 May and were given 10 working days to comply with the notices – if they do not do so by 8-9 June (Monday 7 June is a holiday) [...]

News 13/4 – 3 stories on India plus 3 on industry training

In: Export Education| ITOs| Quality Assurance

13 Apr 2010

ITF Research Forum The ITF is promoting their 7th annual Vocational Education and Training Research Forum, which kicks off this week. ED is a sponsor!
Apprentice of the Year The building industry apprentice of the year competition is now getting underway.
Model Training Infratrain is highlighting Taylors Contracting as a model company for its involvement in training.
Cheap [...]

Bottom Feeders Caught in Auckland

In: Export Education| Quality Assurance

9 Apr 2010

I have no time for bottom feeders in education and the latest bunch were highlighted in a Sunday Star Times article at the weekend. API Institute of Education (also using the name Edinburgh Institute of Education) had their registration cancelled by NZQA in February after there were concerns about the quality of results being reported (presumably [...]

News 7/4 – ITO audits, health and safety training, and UCOL fees

In: Funding| ITOs| Quality Assurance

7 Apr 2010

ITO Audits Radio NZ ran a story (2:41) on proposed ITO audits on Checkpoint yesterday, with Erica Cumming (HITO CEO and ITF Board member) and Liz Valintine (ATTTO CEO) and Steven Joyce (Minister for Tertiary Education) all saying it needs to be kept in perspective.
Health and Safety Training Cuts Radio NZ reported yesterday on Morning Report Business NZ [...]

News 6/4 – Tairawhiti merger, ITO Audits and Glenn Beck

In: Funding| ITOs| Industry Input| Quality Assurance| TEI Issues| TEO & ITO Annual Reports

6 Apr 2010

Tairawhiti and EIT Merger Tairawhiti Polytechnic and Eastern Institute of Technology may merge, largely as a result of financial pressures on the former. This was on the cards a few years ago but extra funds were put into Tairawhiti to help them get back on their feet. Those funds end in December, but there has [...]

The Indigenous Qualifications Authority

In: Quality Assurance| Tertiary Education

19 Mar 2010

Today the media monitoring came up with a Whakatane Beacon story about a new Pouarahi (CE) for Te Korowai Aroha O Aotearoa, a national non-government Maori education and training authority. I’d never heard of them before, so I had a quick look into them and found some interesting things. Here’s a summary from their site.
Te Korowai [...]

Bologna Process Stirs Blockades – Really

In: Quality Assurance

11 Mar 2010

The Bologna Process is an EU initiative that is basically designed to align degree structures across the EU (and the wider world – NZ’s relationship is covered here). The EU is running a Ministerial Anniversary Conference in Vienna this week “to honour and to assess the achievements of common action and its contribution to enhancing [...]


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