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Nobel Inspiration

In: Facilities & Equipment

22 Jul 2010

Victoria University’s Alan MacDiarmid Building opened yesterday and the centrepiece is Alan MacDiarmid’s Nobel Medal for Chemistry. The Dom Post did a story on it and noted Pat Walsh, VC, saying that the medal would be “an inspiration to the staff and students that study here”.
Since I live next door to the University I popped [...]

News 22/7 – WITT Fees Up

In: Export Education| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Students| Universities

22 Jul 2010

WITT Fees up WITT has increased its fees by 4% across the board, but has not increased its $40 student services fee (or other fees). This is the first fees increase for next year that I’ve seen reported.
Capital Times A columnist in Wellington’s Capital Times likes Steven Joyce’s graduate outcomes idea, mainly for the focus [...]

Training Tertiary Teachers

In: Staff| Tertiary Education

21 Jul 2010

Ako Aotearoa has been working on “a stocktake of qualifications and formal and informal support available to new tertiary teachers in New Zealand”. The full report should be released soon, but Peter Coolbear put up a preview of the findings on the Ako website last month.
They found 81 relevant quals, 62 of which were active. One interesting [...]

News 21/7 – Education NZ Not Charitable

In: Export Education| ITPs| Industry Input| Students| Universities

21 Jul 2010

Education NZ Not Charitable That’s not my judgment, but the Charities Commission, which has not awarded them charitable status. It will make life a bit more inconvenient (and costly) for ENZ, but I’m happy that the new Charities Commission is being much tougher on who gets charitable status – ENZ is, after all, an export promotion [...]

PTE Funding – Why the 9.5% Discount?

In: Funding| PTEs

20 Jul 2010

This is the last post on elements of last week’s speech by Steven Joyce and covers the PTE funding discount of 9.5% (they get less than public providers) that the Minister wants to remove. I was doing lobbying work for a PTE group, NZAPEP, when this funding policy was introduced on Steve Maharey’s watch as [...]

News 20/7 – Grad Outcomes, Sparrow Cull & Fire Dancing

In: Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Research| Students| Universities

20 Jul 2010

Graduate Outcomes Nandor Tanczos writes a blog on TV3’s website and his latest is on Joyce’s funding related to graduate outcomes idea (he doesn’t like it). I blogged yesterday on Unitec CE Rick Ede’s column and the TEU responded – check it out here.
Sparrow Cull The University of Auckland is culling sparrows in the cafeteria [...]

NZQA Chases PTEs and ITPQ

In: PTEs| Quality Assurance

19 Jul 2010

NZQA is targeting 42 PTES that have not met a June 30 deadline for filing papers relating to their accounts and quality processes. This mirrors a process applied earlier to PTEs that missed a 31 March deadline, although it now seems to be being applied sooner after the deadline. If they don’t supply the data they [...]

News 19/7 – Graduate Outcomes Debate Goes On: Someone Supports It!

In: Export Education| Funding| ITPs| Research| Students| Universities

19 Jul 2010

Funding for Outcomes: Negative Reaction continues about Steven Joyce’s proposal to look at linking graduate outcomes to funding some time in the future. And it amazes me how simplistic so many of the arguments are.

In an article on Manawatu opinions, UCOL CE Paul McElroy argued that a TEO shouldn’t be ”held wholly responsible for these outcomes through [...]

Dirty Tricks in US For-Profit Education

In: Tertiary Education

16 Jul 2010

Some of my left of centre readers will assume that for-profit educators have been involved in the dirty tricks, but it’s a bit more complex. Sure, there are arguments going on about whether some US for-profit colleges are recruiting homeless people and luring people into large debts, and they’re legitimate issues to explore, but this story is [...]

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 [...]


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