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Joyce Superbly Shifts the Focus

In: Policy| Politics| Strategy & Policy

16 Jul 2010

Student services fees may have had the early running as an issue out of Steven Joyce’s tertiary education policy speech on Wednesday, but the graduate outcomes issue has surged into the lead.  In the process, Joyce is showing off his political skills.
You can pick up some of the coverage in this morning’s news post, but [...]

News 16/7 – Joyce Day II, Wintec Carpark and TEU Corner

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| Research| Staff| Strategy & Policy| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities

16 Jul 2010

Joyce’s Ripples The ripples from Joyce’s speech continue to expand. Nelson teaching students, studying with the University of Canterbury, are happy with Joyce’s look at student services fees. They had already protested, and seemingly gained a reduction, in Canterbury’s fees, given that most of their time is spent in Nelson, where Canterbury has very few [...]

News 15/7 – It’s Steven Joyce Day!

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| Research| Strategy & Policy| Universities

15 Jul 2010

Steven Joyce Day I’m naming today Steven Joyce day because all the big stories today stem from his speech yesterday at Victoria University on tertiary education policy.

The Dom Post focused on the review of universities’ big extra student support fees (UCOL too from memory) as did the NZ Herald (NZPA had a piece too). VUW, AUT and [...]

New Zealand offers two lessons and a query to an overseas observer

In: Strategy & Policy

14 Apr 2010

ED is sponsoring the Industry Training Federation’s Vocational Education and Training Research Forum today and tomorrow. The ITF has provided three research summaries that we are running as guest posts - this is the second one. Dr Gavin Moodie of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is presenting a paper today on New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Policy Compared.
New [...]

News 15 Mar – Briefings to New Minister, Budget Lobbying Starts

In: Funding| Government on Industry| Policy| Research| Staff| Strategy & Policy

15 Mar 2010

Joyce’s Briefings Steven Joyce released briefings given to him as the new Minister on Friday. There are nine papers for the curious. (I = ED Insider story)
Tertiary Education Reforms The Manawatu Standard has come out in support of performance-based funding for providers and for student loans. Martin Kay, political reporter, has written a lengthy piece [...]

Reshaping the Adult and Community Education (ACE) Market

In: Funding| Policy| Politics| Strategy & Policy

22 Feb 2010

National’s move to cut funding for adult and community education (ACE) will reshape, rather than destroy, the ACE market. This post looks at the backstory, the value of ACE and how the market might change. There is a sister post to this one by Matt Nolan at The Visible Hand in Economics blog, who reviews a report on [...]

News 17 Feb – economic crisis, Mallard the mediator and focaccia

In: ITPs| Strategy & Policy| Tertiary Education

17 Feb 2010

The OECD has released a paper on the impact of the economic crisis on education. It is based on a survey last June and is worth a quick skim for people interested in wider policy issues. I’ll be including more international content in the blog from now on, as many other people are dealing with [...]


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