Archive for the ‘TEO & ITO Annual Reports’ Category

Libya Good riddance to Gaddafi and let’s see how long it take to clean up the mess. I’d pick 5-10 years, but if you want to see what… Read Full Story.

Tighter Loans Steven Joyce has given more detail on student loan tightening, which will include stopping over 55s borrowing for living costs, and tightening borrowing for student pilots… Read Full Story.

I’m off to Auckland for an exciting session to plan a qualification review (really, I am excited), so this post was drafted a little early and may miss… Read Full Story.

ITOs to Improve The ITF is seeking to move on from recent bad news stories by pointing out that ITOs are committed to improve, reflecting the government’s shift from participation to outcomes…. Read Full Story.

Great Finances Universities, wananga and ITPs have finances to die for, according to the Minister for Tertiary Education (NZPA story and Herald story with more detail). Universities NZ agree that… Read Full Story.

Fake 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… Read Full Story.

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… Read Full Story.

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… Read Full Story.

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… Read Full Story.

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… Read Full Story.


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  • Richard Hamilton-Williams: Tinkering with funding on the basis of the age of students doesn’t have a very successful track re [...]
  • dean: I loved that you started to question my own motives. BTW. [...]
  • dean: Well, err, um i was actually trying to point out how potentially futile ascribing motive to somethin [...]
  • Dave Guerin: Dean, an organisation can argue as it wishes. Given the collection of stories and releases today, NZ [...]
  • dean: Sigh, really ... You question (am I right in saying negatively?) an organisation's motives on som [...]