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News 10/9 – Response from Minister to Quake (Weak Effort, Too)
In: Facilities & Equipment| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Politics| Statistics & Analysis| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities
10 Sep 2010Education 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 [...]
News 9/9 – Sector Stats and Quake – What More News Do You Need?
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Politics| Staff| Statistics & Analysis| Students| TEI External Evaluation & Review| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities
9 Sep 2010Lots of news today, so a late delivery of this. Monday had our biggest site visits and page views ever, with the earthquake, but yesterday surpassed visits by 1 and page views by 39%, with quake and performance stats coverage.
Educational Performance Information
TEC released education performance information yesterday – there was also a TEC media release and [...]
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- Tags: Aoraki Polytechnic, AUT, Avonmore Tertiary Institute, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, BCITO, Careerforce, Completions, CPIT, Greens, Labour, Massey University, Minister - Tert. Ed, MIT, NMIT, NZITP, NZUSA, Open Polytechnic, Retail Institute, SIT, TEC, TEU, UCOL, Unitec, Universities NZ, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, Waiariki Institute of Technology, WelTec, Whitireia Community Polytechnic
News 3/9 – First Marketing on Completion Rates. New TEU Prez.
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3 Sep 2010First Marketing on Completion Rates Lifeway College is the first provider to use its students’ completions as a marketing tool. They’re promoting a 93% qualification achievement rate according to “the official statistics submitted to the Tertiary Education Commission”, so I assume they’re talking about the soon to be published stats. I’d expect a lot more [...]
Thoughts on WISA
2 Sep 2010It’s almost 3 weeks since the story about the fraud at Whitireia Independent Students’ Association. I wrote a long post on it on 14 August and covered various news stories on 16, 17, 18 and 24 August and 1 September. Given that time lag, I thought I’d put a few thoughts together.
Blog comments can be great. [...]
News 2/9 – Vic Debaters Win. Massey’s Cleaners and Entry Standards.
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Politics| Staff| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
2 Sep 2010Vic Debaters Dominant Victoria University debaters came out on top in the Joynt Scroll university debating competition, with their A and B teams contesting the final. It is the 46th time Vic has won the title in 109 years, which is pretty impressive (PS I went to Vic).
Massey Entry The Manawatu Standard has done a [...]
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- Tags: AUT, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, International Travel College, Labour, Massey University, Minister - Tert. Ed, North Shore International Academy, Student Loans and Allowances, Unitec, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington
News 31/8 – Blog Paper, SIT’s Lower $$ and Wgtn Buildings
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31 Aug 2010A Use for Yesterday’s Blogs A Massey grad has had his work selected for the Anti Design festival in London. He created Blog Roll by developing a software programme that takes the content of any blog and prints it through a fax machine into a 45-metre long roll of one-ply paper. Hmm, maybe there’s my [...]
News 30/8 – ITO Vision. Angry Council. Telford Expansion?
In: Export Education| Funding| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Industry| Industry Input| PTEs| Policy| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities
30 Aug 2010Forestry Vision ITOs are covered so rarely in the media, but the NZ Herald had a good story today on FITEC and its work with other ITOs to set up the Primary Industries Trade Academy, but the story also has a wider focus on how industry skills need will be met. In a similar vein, [...]
Here’s A Tertiary League Table, Discuss
In: ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Statistics & Analysis| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga
27 Aug 2010The TEC is going to release performance data in the next week or two about tertiary education providers. That will cover such items as retention and completion of courses, completion of qualifications and progression to further education. That has been going through a long process of checking with institutions, as well as a long debate [...]
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- Tags: Completions, MOE, Performance funding, TEC
News 27/8 – Student Entry, Performance and Loans
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27 Aug 2010Focus on the Numbers Te Wananga O Aotearoa is focusing more on the numbers, in preparation for performance funding, according to the TEU. I’m going to write more about this later today.
Otago Poly Entry Great story this morning in the ODT about Otago Poly’s new approach to entry – I will write more about that [...]
News 26/8 – Fake Websites Gone. WITT in the Black.
In: ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Staff| Students| TEO & ITO Annual Reports| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga
26 Aug 2010Fake Websites Gone The fake websites of 41 NZ tertiary providers that were put up in China have been taken down after complaints. I was chatting to a regular blog reader yesterday who had uncovered it, so it shows we’ve got a smart audience!
WITT Posts Surplus!!! WITT had a $1.2m surplus last year and even improve [...]
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- Mary: Actually the educationcounts data suggests (though it is not detailed enough to be definitive) that [...]
- Stephen Day: Yes, but we didn't say 'any' low performance is simply a matter of the students targeted. What we sa [...]
- Dave Guerin: Petrak, you need to back up that statement. The SDR Manual says that the Qualification Completion Fi [...]
- Dave Guerin: The TEU media release opens as follows: "Predictably, tertiary institutions with higher numbers o [...]
- Stephen Day: "The TEU takes the view that any low performance is simply a matter of the students targ [...]
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