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News 4 Mar – Waiariki’s High Enrolments, Australian Performance Reporting

In: Funding| Research| Statistics & Analysis

4 Mar 2010

Our feature post today is a response from an ITO CEO to my Monday post on industry training - check it out at 11am.

Enrolments Wairiki Institute of Technology is calling for caps to be lifted after high enrolments at the start of the year.
Orientation Otago has been quiet but Waikato students have been rowdy. Quoting from [...]

News 25 Feb – Ag ITO Keeps Numbers Up and VC Infallibility

In: Export Education| Policy| Research

25 Feb 2010

Enrolments The Agriculture ITO managed to keep trainee  numbers up during last year’s recession, with only a small dip – impressive given tight employment conditions. UCOL has had 500 (19%) more enrolment applications  to date this year than last, with rejected students facing a long wait.
Orientation Review of SIT Orientation and regular annual Police checkpoint for old cars [...]

New MOE Research – Tuition Fees, Productivity and Training Opportunities

In: Funding| Research| Statistics & Analysis

24 Feb 2010

The Minister of Education has published three new research reports. I have a soft spot for the MOE’s Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis and Reporting team and I regret that there is not a bigger market for research-based evidence in tertiary education policymaking. To help make up for that, I’ll promote their work!

Comparing university tuition fees with [...]

News 24 Feb – Chch music school, science and ACE

In: Funding| Research

24 Feb 2010

Comment on news and other items of the day welcomed.

Critics of the new University of Canterbury national music school are speaking out at a resource consent hearing going on in Christchurch this week – see here and here (you could probably find 20 stories on The Press’ website). The proposed school will be based in the historic [...]

News 23 Feb – VSM, Cool Student Film and PPTA Attacks Tolley (again)

In: Export Education| Funding| Policy| Research

23 Feb 2010

The English language school GEOS New Zealand has apparently been sold by its Japanese owners to one of its NZ managers. I’m working off rumour on this one, via the Let’s Japan blog (see the last comments). I referred to the closure of GEOS Australia closure in a post a few weeks back. Offshore agents have [...]

News 22 Feb – Smart Drugs, Cadets and Academics with Guns

In: Quality Assurance| Research

22 Feb 2010

There were lots of news stories on Saturday, so check them out if you haven’t already. Comments on the stories below or any issues of the day are welcome.

Labour is continuing to argue with National over student loans. Grant Robertson’s post title on Red Alert over the weekend was that Steven Joyce was perpetuating myths on [...]

News 18 Feb – NZQA and TEC go to Parliament

In: Export Education| Funding| Parliament| Policy| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education

18 Feb 2010

The TEC doesn’t know how tertiary enrolments are looking, or so said Roy Sharp to the Education and Science Committee yesterday. Since TEC’s investment managers will have been contacting all of the bigger providers, I’m sure Roy does have some good indications of enrolments, but obviously he wasn’t asked the right questions (or they weren’t [...]

News 15 Feb – sun loungers, coastal science and spanking

In: Government on Industry| Policy| Research

15 Feb 2010

Photo by Miho Tsumakura

UCOL’s Andy Halewood has had his sun lounger accepted in a Waiheke Island-based design exhibition (picture below). I think it will get more media coverage than last year’s sideboard exhibition.

 
 
Following up on the beach theme, Environment Bay of Plenty is funding a professorial chair in coastal science at the University of Waikato. Waikato [...]

News Beat 10 Feb – pigs, drugs, the PM, fish oil, gardens and students gone bad

In: Research

10 Feb 2010

News of the day

I’ve always said that there aren’t enough pigs to go around and now a Lincoln student has not only agreed, but is trying to fix it, which is more than I’ve ever done.
Professor Stephen Duffull is the new Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Otago – his research focus is on individualising [...]

News Beat 9 Feb

In: ITOs| Industry Groups| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education

9 Feb 2010

This is the tertiary education news beat for today – upcoming posts today will cover booming enrolments and the new(ish) Tertiary Education Strategy.

Darel Hall’s first post for ED Blog yesterday went viral after it was picked up by Russell Brown at Public Address - welcome to the hundreds of new readers and congrats to Darel on a [...]


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  • naked and off his trolley March 10, 2010
    Previous | Image 1 of 5 | Next Nadine Amsler (17) in trolley and Peter Ralph (19), both of Bay of Islands, cause a stir. Shedding clothes could not quite help University of Otago students Peter Ralph (19) and Nadine Amsler (17), both of the Bay of Islands, to the top spot in the K-Mart Trolley Race in... […]
  • Kiwis sticking with school for longer March 10, 2010
    New Zealanders spend an average of 19.7 years in education, two years more than in 1999, an Education Ministry report shows. However, another study says participation rates in tertiary education have slightly declined. […]
  • Lecturer 'at the wrong place at the wrong time' March 10, 2010
    A Lincoln University lecturer killed in a car crash at Belfast on Friday was at the wrong place at the wrong time, her family says. Lyn Boddington, 50, died on Friday afternoon in a crash at the intersection of Main North Rd and Dickies Rd. […]
  • SIT media student's new movie poised to win hearts and minds March 10, 2010
    Saturday night marked the debut of third-year SIT Digital Media student Matt Inns' second short feature Oku Tuakana, My Brothers at Centrestage in Invercargill. […]
  • NZUSA... Coming To A Town Near You March 10, 2010
    National student leaders will be helping students save their services as they visit campuses around the country this month. NZUSA is visiting member associations and their institutions from Auckland to Dunedin in a fortnight-long tour of universities, polytechnics, and institutes of technology. […]
  • Auckland University Should Look To Government March 10, 2010
    Auckland University Should Look To Government, Not Students, For Money Staff and students shouldn't be competing for the same money, says TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs. […]
  • Grind turns doodle to sculpture March 10, 2010
    Take one doodle, add copious amounts of blisters and sweat over almost three years, and you get Christian Hunt's new sculpture at Massey University. The Oamaru stone sculpture stands behind the new Te Waiora centre, a place for students to explore spirituality. […]
  • Overseas Universities Luring Kiwi Students March 10, 2010
    Overseas Universities Luring Kiwi Students “The low cost university system that our children access today risks becoming the poor quality system that our grandchildren desert tomorrow,” says the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Auckland, Professor Stuart McCutcheon. […]
  • Home at last March 10, 2010
    An Otago Peninsula yellow-eyed penguin attacked by a shark at the end of January is welcomed home to Dunedin by Department of Conservation biodiversity ranger Mel Young yesterday, while Willis Ratahi, of Air New Zealand, looks on. […]
  • Tertiary Education Reforms Long Overdue March 10, 2010
    Like thousands of other parents around the country I've delivered my university aged children to their respective universities in the past couple of weeks. […]
  • Leading Education Agents Visit NZ March 10, 2010
    Putting New Zealand in the Education Spotlight as 50 Leading Education Agents Visit NZ Click to enlarge “The best way to sell New Zealand as a study destination is to let people see it with their own eyes,” declares Robert Stevens, Chief Executive of Education New Zealand. […]
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