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12 Mar 2010Student Giveaway Waiariki Institute of Technology has given away a car as part of a promotion to encourage students to pay their fees early. Roberto Mura won the prize and is pictured with Waiariki CEO Pim Borren (on the right). I think this may be the biggest prize ever given out as part of a [...]
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 [...]
In: Export Education| Policy| Research
25 Feb 2010Enrolments 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In: Export Education| Funding| Policy| Research
23 Feb 2010The 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 [...]
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 [...]
In: Export Education| Funding| Parliament| Policy| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education
18 Feb 2010The 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 [...]
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 [...]
In: Research
10 Feb 2010News 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 [...]
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