Archive for the ‘Quality Assurance’ Category
News 27/1 – Student $$, Student Entry (Old and Young) & Camping
In: Facilities & Equipment|Funding|ITPs|Policy|PTEs|Quality Assurance|Students|Teaching & Learning|TEO Sector Groups|Tertiary Education|Universities
27 Jan 2011My post acknowledging George Borthwick’s New Year Honour yesterday hit a chord with a few emails and a comment on the blog – nice to give a good guy some recognition….a minute before publishing this I just had an email from the man himself too! Student $$ NZUSA has released its latest student income and expenditure survey. I can’t see the report anywhere, so… Read Full Story.
NZ’s Tertiary Education Ups and Downs 2010
In: Export Education|Funding|ITPs|Policy|PTEs|Quality Assurance|Statistics & Analysis|Tertiary Education|Universities
23 Dec 2010Well, it is that time of year when bouquets and brickbats are awarded by all those journos and bloggers who can’t be bothered generating new content, so I thought I should do the same for tertiary education. My colleague Marina Matthews provided assistance, but I’ll take any criticism you may wish to offer. Best Policy The release of… Read Full Story.
End of Year Farewells/Congrats
14 Dec 2010It’s getting to the end of the year and a few people that I know in tertiary education are moving on or changing roles and I’d like to recognise their contribution. First up, Karen Houston of International Travel College has sold her College. I first heard Karen’s name when ED was advising the other side of a business… Read Full Story.
News 13/12 – Waikato On the Up, Pasifika Leadership & Food for Fines
In: Export Education|ICT|Industry|Industry Input|ITPs|Policy|PTEs|Quality Assurance|Students|TEO Sector Groups|Tertiary Education|Universities|Wananga
13 Dec 2010I had a few offline comments last week about my post on Roy Sharp’s retirement. The tenor was that I had been too soft, that Roy hadn’t done all those things and that TEC hadn’t been made effective enough. I had a look back at the post and realised I would have made a few minor changes here and there, largely because I wrote it in… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: AUT, BEST Pacific Institute of Education, Careerforce, Degree Entrance, EIT, English Language Schools, KAREN, Massey University, Media Design School, NZMA, SIT, TEC, TEU, Tourism, TWOA, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington, Wintec
News 6/12 – Job Cuts, Housing Network, Labour on ITPs
In: Facilities & Equipment|Funding|ITOs|ITPs|Policy|Politics|Quality Assurance|Staff|Tertiary Education|Universities|Wananga
6 Dec 2010Global Hair The Hairdressing ITO has awarded its first international certificates, after years of negotiation with overseas bodies. Job Cuts Otago Uni’s Foundation Studies Ltd might have lost more than six jobs this year as its EFTS are cut – this seems to be common and I don’t know whether TEC or unis are cutting the EFTS (or both). Seems silly in the absence of… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: AUT, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Construction, Hairdressing ITO, ITPQ, Labour, Massey University, Otago Polytechnic, Tairawhiti Polytechnic, Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, TEC, UCOL, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington
Steven Joyce has just announced that NZQA will be doing the quality assurance for ITPs from 1 January 2011 – ITP Quality has had a delegation from NZQA since 1993. Joyce’s key comments are below. The Minister for Tertiary Education, Steven Joyce, says the change has come about as a result of discussions with the ITP sector about… Read Full Story.
News 2/12 – Merger OK. Student Death. VSM. Pavlova
In: Facilities & Equipment|ICT|ITPs|Policy|Politics|PTEs|Quality Assurance|Students|TEI Issues|TEO Sector Groups|Universities
2 Dec 2010EIT and Tairawhiti To Merge Steven Joyce made the announcement yesterday (NZPA story). That isn’t surprising but it only happened with another $7.5m from the government. Mai Chen @ Auckland Mai Chen is the new Adjunct Professor in Commercial and Public Law at the University of Auckland – it’s a part-time role. Student Death An Auckland Youth Training student has died after leaping into a… Read Full Story.
News 22/11 – PTE Regulation, Sex and Intl Students. Pike River.
In: Export Education|Facilities & Equipment|ITOs|ITPs|Policy|Politics|PTEs|Quality Assurance|Students|Teaching & Learning|TEI Issues|TEO Sector Groups|Tertiary Education|Universities
22 Nov 2010PTE Regulation The NZ Herald reported yesterday on Grant Robertson’s (Labour) support for Steven Joyce’s PTE regulation changes – although Grant put in a few caveats, as one would expect (Grant’s media release). The NZ Herald has also followed up on last weekend’s stories on dodgy business schools by pointing out that the main ones blacklisted by Massey were the three closed down… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: AUT, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Degree Entrance, ETITO, Immigration, Labour, Lincoln University, Massey University, Media Design School, Minister - Tert. Ed, NCEA, NMIT, NZQA, Otago Polytechnic, Tai Poutini Polytechnic, Telford Rural Polytechnic, TEU, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, WelTec, Whitireia Community Polytechnic
News 27/10 – Akld Airport Closed, Massey Cluster#$@%, ITOs Under Fire.
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27 Oct 2010Akld Intl Airport Closed Down! Well, their PTE has been closed by NZQA for not filing returns. It may be sad news for AIA (but they may have wanted to close it anyhow) but it shows that NZQA is serious about its rules, which is good in a regulatory agency (whether the rules are good is a debate for… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: AUT, Christchurch Quake, CPIT, Design, ESITO, Labour, Massey University, Minister - Tert. Ed, NMIT, NZQA, Open Polytechnic, Otago Polytechnic, Tai Poutini Polytechnic, UCOL, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington
News 26/10 – Regent Blackmark, Top Salaries and VSM Impacts NZUSA
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26 Oct 2010Regent Blackmark Regent International Education Group, an Auckland PTE, has had a poor EER report from NZQA and an even more damaging report in the NZ Herald. Stuart Middleton Stuart Middleton has been a bit quite over the last few months but he published a post on Friday about how cooperation would work best in getting training done… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: English Language Partners, Lincoln University, Massey University, NMIT, NZQA, Otago Polytechnic, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, TEU, UCOL, Unitec, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington, VSM, Waiariki Institute of Technology, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, WITT
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