Posts Tagged ‘Ako Aotearoa

Ako Aotearoa has been working on “a stocktake of qualifications and formal and informal support available to new tertiary teachers in New Zealand”. The full report should be released soon, but Peter Coolbear put up a preview of the findings on the Ako website last month.
They found 81 relevant quals, 62 of which were active. One interesting [...]

Our feature post today is a response from an ITO CEO to my Monday post on industry training - check it out at 11am.

Enrolments Wairiki Institute of Technology is calling for caps to be lifted after high enrolments at the start of the year.
Orientation Otago has been quiet but Waikato students have been rowdy. Quoting from [...]


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