Posts Tagged ‘ACE’

Prioritising Resources in California

In: Policy

5 Jul 2010

I thought a recent blog post from the New America Foundation (seems centre-left but open-minded to other ideas from a quick look) had some familiar points to our ACE discussions and, less directly, the focus of ITPs.
Current (community college) students are scrambling to get the classes they need, often winding up on discouragingly long waiting lists, and many new [...]

News 20/4 – Loans and Fees the Key, Plus Grid Girls

In: Funding| Tertiary Education

20 Apr 2010

Student Loans and Fees There have been many stories following up on Steven Joyce’s announcements on TV on Sunday about student loans and fees (see yesterday’s news post for details)

John Key was on Breakfast (at 4:33 on) talking about student loans and the key points are in this story, including that students should respect the taxpayers’ contribution [...]

News 25 Mar – Unrest at MIT? OUSA for Sale?

In: Policy| Students

25 Mar 2010

OUSA for Sale Otago University Students Assn was upfor sale on TradeMe as an anti-VSM stunt, but TradeMe took the auction down after a few hours. OUSA was asking $30m, which might be a bit steep. NZUSA’s co-presidents were in Palmerston North campaigning this week. If you’re still reading, you could check out the video [...]

ACE Goes to Parliament

In: Parliament

24 Mar 2010

I went to the Education and Science Committee today at Parliament to see presentation of petitions on adult and community education (ACE). It was, much as I expected, a waste of time. The petitions were signed and presented last year when the issue was still alive, but now the funding has been cut and there’s [...]

News 24 Feb – Chch music school, science and ACE

In: Funding| Research| Students

24 Feb 2010

Comment on news and other items of the day welcomed.

Critics of the new University of Canterbury national music school are speaking out at a resource consent hearing going on in Christchurch this week – see here and here (you could probably find 20 stories on The Press’ website). The proposed school will be based in the historic [...]

News 23 Feb – VSM, Cool Student Film and PPTA Attacks Tolley (again)

In: Export Education| Funding| Policy| Research| Students

23 Feb 2010

The English language school GEOS New Zealand has apparently been sold by its Japanese owners to one of its NZ managers. I’m working off rumour on this one, via the Let’s Japan blog (see the last comments). I referred to the closure of GEOS Australia closure in a post a few weeks back. Offshore agents have [...]

Reshaping the Adult and Community Education (ACE) Market

In: Funding| Policy| Politics| Strategy & Policy

22 Feb 2010

National’s move to cut funding for adult and community education (ACE) will reshape, rather than destroy, the ACE market. This post looks at the backstory, the value of ACE and how the market might change. There is a sister post to this one by Matt Nolan at The Visible Hand in Economics blog, who reviews a report on [...]


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