In: Policy
24 Feb 2012I love Heston Blumenthal’s cooking and after Bay of Plenty Poly tutor Lee Pearce spent 4 weeks at Heston’s Fat Duck restaurant, the top BOPP student this year will get a work placement there. I wonder if anyone can top that placement. Policy, Management & People Loan Payback A student loan repayment incentive has resulted in $300m being… Read Full Story.
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23 Feb 2012Nice to see some Q&A with Prof Sir Paul Callaghan, but sad to see the answers are written from his hospital bed. Policy, Management & People $57m at Massey $57m will be spent on facilities at Massey as they bring their Hokowhitu students and staff (teacher ed) onto the main Palmie campus. They will then sell the other… Read Full Story.
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21 Feb 2012Mayumi Asakawa will ring the Peace Bell at a Christchurch quake commemoration tomorrow. She is a former King’s Education student. Policy, Management & People Christchurch Mergers? Steven Joyce called for Christchurch TEIs to look at all possible options, including mergers, as they look to the next 20 years. The merger option is for the unis. Top $ A… Read Full Story.
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17 Feb 2012A former King’s Education student will come from Japan will play a part in a commemorative ceremony next week. Policy, Management & People Christchurch Trades A Christchurch trades academy based at CPIT can take on another 350 students, taking the roll to 500. Student Debt The Dom Post debunked student debt myths – good article. Equine-Ag Merger The… Read Full Story.
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16 Feb 2012The Crafar farms sale was blocked by the High Court yesterday. Readers may not be aware that the Overseas Investment Office rated the two jobs from the proposed dairy farm training facility as the most certain to eventuate from the sale (see first para, p.14 here) and the High Court rated the training facility as one of the… Read Full Story.
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14 Feb 2012An Auckland student proposed to his fellow student by billboard this morning. Policy, Management & People Planning Issues UCOL has some problems with the District Plan in Palmie as it seeks to have an education precinct established. Boosterism The Manawatu Standard turns Massey QS 4 Star rating into a defence against Massey’s lower TEC ratings, even though they… Read Full Story.
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7 Feb 2012Policy, Management & People Wings Clipped The flight training school that was the focus of a bad IEAA report has closed down. The Wings Flight Training Academy owner said the students were out to get him: “RP Singh is like an innocent-looking rabbit in the forest when you’ve got 10 greyhounds trying to kill him”. I challenge people… Read Full Story.
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3 Feb 2012Policy, Management & People BIMs Treasury’s BIM sparked media releases from NZUSA’s Pete Hodkinson (opposing interest on student loans) and the TEU’s Sandra Grey (opposing shifting funding to younger students and research money to help the private sector). It is not surprising that NZUSA wasn’t too worried about shifting funding towards younger students as most student reps are…younger… Read Full Story.
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1 Feb 2012Policy, Management & People A View on Everything This opinion piece covers almost every issue in current tertiary education in short bites. Since it is probably just written to provoke, I think I will refrain from comment. WITT Rockets WITT’s enrolments are up by 50% on last year, down to PEI’s demise, WITT’s own marketing and the general… Read Full Story.
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26 Jan 2012Policy, Management & People Flight School Buy Helipro has bought Bay Flight Aviation, a flight school that went into liquidation. Fake Quals Immigrants are being caught out by NZQA for fake (overseas) quals. Extras: Massey and Hawke’s Bay Region Council signed an MOU; chat with Otago Uni Burns Fellow Fiona Farrell. Research & Innovation Extras: two Otago Uni… Read Full Story.