Posts Tagged ‘Agriculture ITO’
News 21/10 – Demolish, Build. Quake & Religion. WITT in the News.
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21 Oct 2011Thanks to all those who filled in the ED Blog survey – well over 100 of you. I’ll close it at 5pm today and provide feedback next week. Demolish, Build Fresh from announcing the demolition of two buildings, Canterbury is building a new one, as long as the resource consents go through (Gerry Brownlee can sort that out… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: Agriculture ITO, AUT, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Labour, Laidlaw College, Massey University, Minister - Tert. Ed, MIT, NMIT, NZ Childcare Assn, Otago Polytechnic, PEETO, TEU, Unitec, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington, WelTec, Wintec, WITT
News 21/9 – Export Ed to Double? Dodgy Surveillance Law. ITO Completions.
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21 Sep 2011By the way, I have a new contract that you should be aware of. I’m providing behind the scenes support to the Industry Training Federation for a day or two per week until they appoint a new Executive Director. I will not be lobbying for, or speaking on behalf of, the ITF, so don’t read anything into stuff… Read Full Story.
News 8/9 – VSM to Pass. Maori Research Institute. Brain Drain?
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8 Sep 2011VSM The VSM Bill passed its committee stage Earlier in the day students called for a compromise, but they had already lodged a request for an urgent Waitangi Tribunal claim over the Bill (RNZ, NewstalkZB). Later last night the Bill passed its committee stage and is likely to pass its third and final reading on Sep 28 and… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: Agriculture ITO, AUT, Bills & Acts, CPIT, FOMA, HSI, Maori, Massey University, MIT, NZUSA, Otago Polytechnic, Te Mana Akonga, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Trades Academies, UCOL, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington, VSM, WITT
News 8/8 – VSM Protest. Pigeons & Kaka. Pig Farming.
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8 Aug 2011VSM Protest John Key opened the refurbished Bill Robertson Library at Otago Uni on Friday (which sounds like a great development). He was met by a protest against VSM, totalling either 150 according to RNZ (I counted that many in the video here at Red Alert), 300 according to the ODT or 600 according to The Standard (apparently… Read Full Story.
News 5/8 – AUT Arrest. Teaching Excellence. VSM.
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5 Aug 2011AUT Arrest The Police arrested AUT’s former employee Jonathan Kilpatrick and he appeared in the District Court on false accounting and related charges. It seems that he had been putting false invoices in the system since 2002 and paying the proceeds to himself. The 82 invoices totalled $665, 985.25. Stories were up on TVNZ, TVNZ, TV3, RNZ, NZ… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: ACT, Agriculture ITO, Ako Aotearoa, Aoraki Polytechnic, ATTTO, AUT, Competenz, CPIT, EIT, Labour, Lincoln University, Massey University, MIT, NZ College of Chiropractic, NZITO, Otago Polytechnic, Student Job Search, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, TEU, TWOA, UCOL, Unitec, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington, VSM, Waiariki Institute of Technology, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Wintec
News 21/7 – Apprentice Boost? HRC $$. Finger-Knitting.
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21 Jul 2011Apprentice Boost? Labour’s Clare Curran has blogged about a new procurement policy that seems to include skills. If you read the policy, Labour proposes to “require companies providing goods and services to the government to have an apprenticeship/internship programme in place for NZ workers”. It’s an interesting idea that has been tried before in limited circumstances (like some… Read Full Story.
News 18/7 – Diving Tragedy. Climate Change Fuss. Quad Bike Training.
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18 Jul 2011Diving Tragedy Two diving students have died in Lake Pupuke in Auckland. A group of 5 students and 3 instructors from the Adventure Education-affiliated Helix Training were at the lake. The students were advanced in their training, near the end of 4 and 5 month courses, and the reasons for the tragedy are not immediately apparent. (by outlet,… Read Full Story.
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News 13/7 – Saving Birds. Presidential Prison. Nancy Wake.
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13 Jul 2011Saving Birds Massey has 120 birds shacked up at its vet hospital after the broad-billed prions got exhausted by the recent storms. I’d never heard of them before but apparently they were migrating from NZ’s southern islands and they usually are out at sea but got blown in. Massey’s put up a video and they’re quite cute in… Read Full Story.
News 7-8/7 – Great White Sharks. VSM. Capital Gains Tax.
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8 Jul 2011Yesterday was the first weekday news post missed since ED Blog started, other than the Xmas break and public holidays. Sorry for that, but my media monitoring site was so slow that connections were being lost and I couldn’t access the stories. I’ll have a back-up system running on Monday. Great White Sharks Auckland Uni (with NIWA and… Read Full Story.
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News 26/5 – Goff’s Clothing. Suicide. Nomadic Research.
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26 May 2011Trade Agreements MFAT has responded to some TEU questions on the impact of the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations on tertiary education. I might write more about the wider issues sometime. Spanish Revolt RadioLIVE talked to Auckland’s Prof Jose Colmeiro about the people’s revolt in Spain – I didn’t even know there was one! Te Tai Tokerau The Maori… Read Full Story.
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