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How Good is NZ Media Coverage of Education?
8 Mar 2010A Chronicle of Higher Education article on shrinking newsrooms made me think about media coverage of education in NZ. The quote below provides a sense of the article.
At a time when newspapers are slashing their staffs and squeezing out education coverage, it is more difficult for colleges to communicate their relevance and messages to the [...]
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Since we started trialling the new ED Insider service on Friday, you may now see an “(I)” at the end of a new item. That signifies more detailed analysis being available to ED Insider subscribers. There is no change in our approach to news here; we’re just doing extra analysis over at the other site [...]
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- Tags: industry links, ITOs, Students, Universities
ED Insider Service – Triallists Sought
In: Industry| Policy| Tertiary Education
5 Mar 2010Education Directions is launching a new service in late March. ED Insider is a Web-based service that gives tertiary education professionals the strategic policy, industry and tertiary education sector information they need about their environment. You can find out the full details here.
Our first ED Insider item is our monthly agenda of what’s going on in [...]
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Auckland tops university rankings…
2 Mar 2010…in NZ, that is, but they’re equal 61st in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. The what rankings, I can hear you say. Well, it seems that QS ran rankings with the Times Higher Education from 2004-09, but that relationship has broken up, so this is a new name on the block.
Rankings for the [...]
ITP MECA Negotiations – What Next?
In: Tertiary Staff
25 Feb 2010Six institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) have been renegotiating a multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) for academic staff with the Tertiary Education Union for almost a year now, but are stuck on some big issues. I thought it was time to have a look at why, so I’ll start off with the convoluted back story [...]
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- Tags: ITPs, SSC, TEU
News 20 Feb – Media Control, Maori Success and Software Faults
In: Funding| ITOs| Policy| Tertiary Education
20 Feb 2010In a media control move worthy of Tiger Woods, OUSA is seeking to control footage of Orientation events so that broadcasters can’t show “severe intoxication . . . including, but not limited to vomiting, concussion, fighting, individuals receiving medical attention, and sexually explicit material”. It probably sounded good when it was approved but (a) it [...]
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- Tags: ITOs, ITPs, Maori, Student Loans and Allowances, Students
Strikes at ITPs?
In: Tertiary Staff
18 Feb 2010The TEU made a major announcement today, announcing that they want facilitation under the Employment Relations Act for their negotiations with six ITPs over the only Multi-Employer Collective Agreemnt for tertiary education institutions. Negotiations have been going on for a year and gaps between the parties have narrowed considerably, but there are obviously sticking points.
I had been [...]
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News 18 Feb – NZQA and TEC go to Parliament
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 [...]
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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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New Minister for Tertiary Education Steven Joyce was on Morning Report today. He was preceded by a report on the government’s push for trade training.
The lead-in report covered Business NZ’s Phil O’Reilly (we need more choices), the ITF’s Jeremy Baker (vocational quals need to lead to a job – let’s ensure value for money), the PPTA’s [...]
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