Archive for the ‘Statistics & Analysis’ Category

Te Wananga o Raukawa had some very low course completions results in 2009 and 2010 (42% and 43% respectively). That was below the threshold of 55% where private… Read Full Story.

THE Rankings The NZ Herald has a story on the latest THE rankings – I wrote a post last night on them. AUT Fraud Jonathan Kirkpatrick has been… Read Full Story.

Vocational Pathways If I was to pick a current policy direction that would have a major impact in 5-10 years, vocational pathways in schools would be in my… Read Full Story.

Performance Data TEC released data on tertiary education organisations educational performance yesterday, with Steven Joyce kicking it off. Various organisations put out releases to promote their version of… Read Full Story.

  I wonder whether Te Wananga O Raukawa (Raukawa) should be funded in 2012. You see, they had the worst course completions of any tertiary education institution (public… Read Full Story.

Rod Oram wrote an opinion piece on industry training yesterday that sets out some strong views on industry training but also has some enormous errors. I often disagree… Read Full Story.

I mentioned yesterday that some news might come out about ITOs, with them being the victims – well, victims of ongoing bad publicity, but the root cause lies… Read Full Story.

Bahrain Best wishes to those kiwis in Bahrain, especially at Bahrain Polytechnic! An interview with a kiwi (Gavin Cate?) from the Poly was run on RNZ 15 minutes… Read Full Story.

Well, 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… Read Full Story.

Hair is Tops The Hairdressing ITO is celebrating its good results in the ITO performance data release. Coincidentally I popped down to their new offices yesterday and they’re… Read Full Story.


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  • dean: I loved that you started to question my own motives. BTW. [...]
  • dean: Well, err, um i was actually trying to point out how potentially futile ascribing motive to somethin [...]
  • Dave Guerin: Dean, an organisation can argue as it wishes. Given the collection of stories and releases today, NZ [...]
  • dean: Sigh, really ... You question (am I right in saying negatively?) an organisation's motives on som [...]