Posts Tagged ‘CPIT’

Older Entries

News 7/9 – Quake Photos and Info Plus Massey Website

In: Facilities & Equipment| Government on Industry| ICT| ITPs| Industry| Industry Input| Tertiary Education| Universities

7 Sep 2010

Quake News (more details at this post from yesterday, but the following info is an update)

Lincoln University gave everyone a week’s extension on assignments. Their website is back up and running with comprehensive info and photos. Their Memorial Hall has major damage (see photo at left), but other buildings will be able to be fixed [...]

Tertiary Damage of Chch Quake (TWOA, WelTec Update)

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

4 Sep 2010

This post on damage in the tertiary education sector from the Christchurch earthquake will be updated as info becomes available. The timing of the quake and a lot of luck means that there are no deaths and few serious injuries so far, but the cleanup bill looks enormous. For general info, go to Stuff or [...]

News 27/8 – Student Entry, Performance and Loans

In: Funding| ITPs| Policy| Staff| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

27 Aug 2010

Focus on the Numbers Te Wananga O Aotearoa is focusing more on the numbers, in preparation for performance funding, according to the TEU. I’m going to write more about this later today.
Otago Poly Entry Great story this morning in the ODT about Otago Poly’s new approach to entry – I will write more about that [...]

News 26/8 – Fake Websites Gone. WITT in the Black.

In: ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Staff| Students| TEO & ITO Annual Reports| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

26 Aug 2010

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 blog reader yesterday who had uncovered it, so it shows we’ve got a smart audience!
WITT Posts Surplus!!! WITT had a $1.2m surplus last year and even improve [...]

News 25/8 – Lincoln-Telford Merger & Stolen Websites

In: Export Education| Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Policy| Staff| TEI Issues| Universities

25 Aug 2010

Lincoln and Telford The merger proposal is moving on, with the Minister calling for submissions on a  formal proposal and the institutions releasing details. Stories have been published by NZPA and the ODT.
TEU Won’t Sue NMIT…well, this time anyway
Free Flat “I am very proud to welcome these fine students to UC Accommodation Student Village”, said regular ED [...]

News 24/8 – $$ at ITPs (Win, Lose and Up In The Air)

In: Funding| ITPs| Policy| Research| Staff| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities

24 Aug 2010

Wintec Gains $$ Wintec has kept 200 extra places it received as a one-off for 2010 in its draft investment plan for 2011 on, leading CE Mark Flowers to spin that it was a good result for Wintec as the general trend was for institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) to have their funding reduced. [...]

News 17/8 – Whitireia Again, Trades Academies & PM on NMIT

In: ITOs| ITPs| OTEPs| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities

17 Aug 2010

Whitireia $$ If you want to know more about the money missing from Whitireia Independent Stduents’ Assn, the Newswire site managed by the polytechnic’s journalism students is a good start. They had stories yesterday on police comment, aggrieved students, an exec member’s reaction, an interview with Poly CE Don Campbell, a summary of other associations’ [...]

News 16/8 – Whitireia’s Missing $$, MIT’s Baby Scholarship & Bacon

In: ITPs| Policy| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

16 Aug 2010

Sorry to those that got a post by email with no story at the weekend – I tried to change the font but mucked up the code. Hopefully it should be fixed now. If not, I’ll call in the experts.

MIT’s Great Scholarship Story A 19 year old-man turned up to MIT with a 19 year [...]

News 10/8 – Nelson Issues and New CPIT CE

In: Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Students| Universities

10 Aug 2010

Nelson Issues The Nelson Mail’s editorial suggests that the government should be asked for more money to avoid cutting NMIT’s creative writing and adventure tourism programmes. Unfortunately, it does not come up with many strong arguments for keeping the adventure tourism programme (other than it is unique, which it’s not – Tai Poutini Polytechnic offers [...]

News 9/8 – Chch Music School, Credit Cards & Fat Bellbirds

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Policy| Students| Universities| Wananga

9 Aug 2010

Chch Music The University of Canterbury is being urged to move its music school into a building built for The Press, which is now moving next door. It seems the developer came up with the idea, and was backed by Bob Parker, but the other mayoral candidate, Jim Anderton, went one further by suggesting that CPIT [...]


Older Entries

Education Directions

Education Directions Ltd (ED) improves tertiary education's impact on lifting workforce productivity. We do that by linking the key players in tertiary education through information, strategy and policy.

ED Blog covers New Zealand tertiary education news and views. Comments and guest posts are welcome. If you have a news tip, please contact us.

ED Insider

ED Insider provides strategic information and analysis for tertiary education professionals - it's the big brother of ED Blog. Check it out now!

  • Brad Heap: Dave, When I was Albany Students' Association President and council rep it certainly wasn't the [...]
  • Dave Guerin: I dunno Brad - the EXMSS guy seemed to be suggesting that it would apply to applicants, but I don't [...]
  • Brad Heap: Dave, Enrolment fees are charged at enrolment, not application. Often you apply for many unis bu [...]
  • Dave Guerin: Cheers Darel - just created a new post with a shorter summary of everything. Great to hear that thin [...]
  • Darel: Just had time to take a breath. No Halls students injured and no material damage at Uni Hall, Ilam [...]

Categories

Archives

Copyright © 2010 - Education Directions Log in