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22 Dec 2010

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 looking good. They’ve shifted next door and they’re doing it up nicely. (BTW they’re in the city fringe not a flash high-rise.) University Entry A story in The Press today could bear a lot of analysis. It… Read Full Story.

News 17/12 – ITO Performance Data, Uni Places & Do You Agree with Paul?

17 Dec 2010

ITO Data Out TEC released the ITO performance data yesterday (also Steven Joyce media release). I might write a bit about it later. ATTTO welcomed them – they did well. Uni Places Grant Robertson put out a pointed media release asking Steven Joyce to explain why Otago Uni first year places were going down. It’s a good political angle, but the obvious reason is… Read Full Story.

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Tags: Anamata, ATTTO, EIT, Funding Caps, Labour, Massey University, Minister - Tert. Ed, TEC, UCOL, University of Auckland, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington

How Much is a TEI CE Worth?

21 Oct 2010

The post title might get a long answer from people, but the 2009 level at which the market balanced a CE’s desire to have the role and their Council’s desire to have them (ie their salaries) has been reported by the State Service Commission. The SSC 2009/10 annual report lists state sector salaries and I’ve pulled out the TEI details… Read Full Story.

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Tags: SSC

News 12/10 – ITO Measures, Dodgy Open Poly Figures and Loan Rules

12 Oct 2010

Shaky Start NZAPEP’s conference has been rescheduled, after being postponed when the Chch earthquake happened a few days before it was scheduled to run. Loan Rules Jacinda Ardern, Labour MP, had a piece in Craccum yesterday about new student loan access rules based on academic performance. ITO Measures ATTTO has put out a media release welcoming new ITO performance… Read Full Story.

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Tags: ATTTO, AUT, Labour, Massey University, NorthTec, NZAPEP, Open Polytechnic, Science, Student Loans and Allowances, UCOL, University of Canterbury, University of Otago

Performance Stats Leading to Student Cuts

In: Funding|Policy|PTEs|Statistics & Analysis|Tertiary Education

1 Oct 2010

PTEs that have poor performance statistics and are enrolling more unfunded students than allowed are apparently being pressured to cut student numbers back to the 103% level. One of my better anonymous sources contacted me this week to say that: “the rumour mill is that all PTEs below the median (not the average – those below the PTE… Read Full Story.

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News 29/9 – Great TEI Finances, Homeless at Unitec and Legal Outrage

29 Sep 2010

Great Finances Universities, wananga and ITPs have finances to die for, according to the Minister for Tertiary Education (NZPA story and Herald story with more detail). Universities NZ agree that universities are great financial managers, but argue that they just don’t have enough money(heard that before?). Funnily enough, it is of course the core negotiating period for 2011 funding, so… Read Full Story.

EPIs: Robustness and Meaning (Tony Smith)

In: Funding|ITPs|Policy|Statistics & Analysis|Tertiary Education

28 Sep 2010

This is a guest post by Tony Smith of Tontine Consultants – tontine@xtra.co.nz Based on the data released so far, I have major reservations over the validity of the qualification completion EPI. Like most others, I strongly support the release of the EPIs, and believe that there has been plenty of time for providers to get their data… Read Full Story.

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Tags: Completions, Guest Post, TEC

News 15/9 – Academic Freedom Abolished? Cordon Bleu. WISA.

15 Sep 2010

Academic Freedom Abolished? Well, not really, but Gerry Brownlee could well abolish academic freedom under the draconian legislation approved last night by all parties except the Greens (Correction: the Greens propsoed amendments but voted for it in the end). It seems that the Chch emergency response ran well everywhere except the legislation drafting area, where enormous powers have… Read Full Story.

EPI Criticism, Plus Errors in EPI

In: Policy|PTEs|Statistics & Analysis|Tertiary Education

14 Sep 2010

I’ve received some material from Richard Hamilton-Williams, an expert on educational statistics and a supplier of student management software, that challenges the TEC’s release of Educational Performance Information (EPI). Readers will be aware that I’m supportive of the EPI release, but I also like a good debate and Richard has done some work that deserves wider coverage. There… Read Full Story.

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Tags: Completions, Minister - Tert. Ed, TEC

News 10/9 – Response from Minister to Quake (Weak Effort, Too)

10 Sep 2010

Education Performance Stats The Manawatu Standard has written a story with the headline “Massey fights worst university ranking” and covers defences from the Uni, TEU and students. Of course, no-one is attacking them for that ranking… The TEU’s newsletter has a review of some of the responses to the data release. The Waikato Times puts a lot of… Read Full Story.

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