Archive for the ‘TEO & ITO Annual Reports’ Category

If you have a minute, check out NZQA’s new website – it looks attractive and replaces the old, rather less attractive site. It has a more accessible navigation structure and the search function has useful subcategories all in one place.

$45m Waihi School A $45m development outside Waihi is starting to open its doors to foreign students. The [...]

The Industry Training Federation’s Budget wishlist will be published at 9.30am today, the second in our series. NZUSA’s view will probably be published on Monday.

Student Loan Fees David Do of NZUSA was on Breakfast yesterday to chat about proposed new student loan fees. The Manawatu Daily Standard has supported the change in its editorial.
SIT’s Big [...]

In our ongoing series on delivery in 2009, we’re covering other tertiary education providers at 11am this morning. They’re an interesting bunch with unique approaches. We covered universities on Monday and wananga on Tuesday

Unis Cause Inflation Statistics NZ’s latest inflation figures include university fees as one of the big upward movements (6.1%), caused mainly by new [...]

Tairawhiti and EIT Merger Tairawhiti Polytechnic and Eastern Institute of Technology may merge, largely as a result of financial pressures on the former. This was on the cards a few years ago but extra funds were put into Tairawhiti to help them get back on their feet. Those funds end in December, but there has [...]

 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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  • Dean Carroll: I agree Darel; another positive externality. I also think that Dave overstates the barriers. Surely [...]
  • Darel: I agree Dean. I wonder if one of the side benefits is to get people constructively focused on t [...]
  • Dean Carroll: I too think that this is an excellent idea as it (a) focuses on the effective and efficiency of the [...]
  • Big News: My follow up to the Massey enrolment cuts is <a href="http://big-news.blogspot.com/2010/07/b [...]
  • Sheldon Nesdale: All that news in just one day Dave? [...]