Posts Tagged ‘Ako Aotearoa’
This is a guest post from Peter Coolbear, Director of Ako Aotearoa. Ako Aotearoa has just released its stock-take report on qualifications and support for tertiary teachers, which was undertaken for us by Projects International. We commissioned this work because a search of qualification databases indicated there were 106 different qualifications for tertiary teachers. This seemed a ridiculous… Read Full Story.
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News 13/8 – SIT Sets Record Straight on Hostel
13 Aug 2010SIT’s Grand Hostel SIT CE Penny Simmonds has an opinion piece in The Southland Times about the Grand Hall of Residence, subject of recent student complaints. It is a comprehensive review of the complaints and forceful defence of SIT’s actions. It appears that some of the complaints were non-existent or trivial, while others have been fixed. Penny has… Read Full Story.
Training Tertiary Teachers
21 Jul 2010Ako 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 point was… Read Full Story.
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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 the… Read Full Story.
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