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28 Mar 2012

I’m chairing day 2 of the Higher Education Summit tomorrow so tomorrow’s post may be a bit shorter than normal. I hope to see a few readers up there. Policy, Management & People Canterbury Closures? Canterbury plans to close the theatre and film studies, American studies and cultural studies programmes. They have 74.1 EFTS and 9 FTE staff,… Read Full Story.

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Tags: ATTTO, AUT, CPIT, Lincoln University, Maori, Massey University, NMIT, Otago Polytechnic, PBRF, TWOA, Unitec, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, WelTec

PBRF Scam? Probably Not.

27 Mar 2012

My friend David Farrar must have had something strange for breakfast yesterday, because he hyped up a post titled “The Great PBRF Scam“. After that, the TEU, Greens and Labour all climbed in and VUW responded, while NewstalkZB covered it . David also did a roundup post and corrected some errors in his first post. The underlying issue… Read Full Story.

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Tags: PBRF, TEC, Victoria University of Wellington

News 27/3 – Post VSM. Unitec Doco. Keg Party.

27 Mar 2012

An alleged PBRF scam came up yesterday. I think it was rather insubstantial, but needs to be addressed nonetheless and I’ll post about it shortly. Policy, Management & People Post VSM David Farrar wrote yesterday about a post-VSM experience of a law students’ club and argued that students’ associations should take a lesson from them. He makes some… Read Full Story.

News 2/3 – Massey Changes. Supreme Court. Happy 80th.

2 Mar 2012

Policy, Management & People Massey Changes Massey’s College of Education is being restructured and 25 job losses may be part of it as it aligns to a target staff:student ration (Stuff). Supreme Court Massey’s cleaners have been granted leave to take their dispute to the Supreme Court. Happy 80th Auckland’s Ranginui Walker celebrated his 80th on RadioLIVE. Canterbury… Read Full Story.

News 1/3 – Massey Staff Cuts. Lincoln Buildings. Mad Theories.

1 Mar 2012

Canterbury has revealed a 2011 $9.5m surplus before insurance payments (The Press), but the after insurance payments surplus of $30m is said to be misleading for various reasons, such as capital costs (which sound reasonable). Overall, they’re not in a great position, as we knew. Policy, Management & People Massey Staff Cuts 25 jobs are apparently on the… Read Full Story.

News 10/2 – CTV Building. Massey QS Rating. Raukawa & Sports/Tainui.

10 Feb 2012

The OECD has a global video competition for 18-25 year olds that closes on 31 March. Entrants must make a 3 minute (max) video on the big issues in education and skills. Your students might be up for it and if they win they get a free trip to Paris (to an OECD Forum, but I’m sure they’ll… Read Full Story.

News 3/2 – BIMs. Rod Carr’s Pay. HIV Data.

3 Feb 2012

Policy, Management & People BIMs Treasury’s BIM sparked media releases from NZUSA’s Pete Hodkinson (opposing interest on student loans) and the TEU’s Sandra Grey (opposing shifting funding to younger students and research money to help the private sector). It is not surprising that NZUSA wasn’t too worried about shifting funding towards younger students as most student reps are…younger… Read Full Story.

News 19/1 – PEI Post-Mortem. UC Enrolments. Yous.

19 Jan 2012

Policy, Management & People PEI Post-Mortem The Taranaki Daily News did an editorial and story on Practical Education Institute yesterday. They have finally found TEC course completion stats on TEC’s website and it’s interesting that it’s only now, exactly a month after they first broke the story, that they found those figures. It reinforces for me how poorly… Read Full Story.

News 17/1 – PEI to Close. Zero Fees. Wilding Pines.

17 Jan 2012

I forgot to welcome people back to work yesterday, as the tertiary education sector gradually starts filling up again. You’ll notice the site is looking a bit different and there will be a few new features over the next two weeks. Policy, Management & People PEI to Close Practical Education Institute in New Plymouth is going to close,… Read Full Story.

Thumbs-Up: Tertiary Education Honours

In: PTEs|Staff|Tertiary Education|Universities

10 Jan 2012

The New Year’s Honours List 2012 included many people from the tertiary education sector, so ED Blog would like to restart its Thumbs Up series by recognising the recipients. Congrats to all! CNZM Prof Margaret Brimble for services to science. She is from the University of Auckland. Prof Peter Hughes for services to the State. Former CE of… Read Full Story.

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