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12 Aug 2011

No NZQA-ERO Merger Various agencies were approved for merger yesterday by Cabinet, but NZQA and ERO were not included and the merger is now off the table. Good – it was a bloody stupid idea. Policy work in the DOL will also no longer shift to the MOE, as had been proposed. (PSA, RNZ) ENZ Chair One of… Read Full Story.

Joyce on International Education’s Future

In: Export Education|Policy

11 Aug 2011

Steven Joyce, announced at the Education NZ conference in Auckland that he plans to launch the new Leadership Statement for International Education very shortly. Hopefully he doesn’t release it straight after his speech, as he did at the ITF conference with the industry training terms of reference! The new vision is for a doubling of revenue from international education to reach $0.5b by 2025, increased education partnerships,… Read Full Story.

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Tags: Education NZ, Minister - Tert. Ed

News 10/8 – Virtual Harvesting. Top Teacher’s Tomato. Creche Problems.

10 Aug 2011

A new guest author will join ED Blog today – Mike Woods has just set up a consultancy (check out his site) after finishing a period at the MOE, mainly in international education. He’s put together a post about interest on student loans, which is often popular amongst readers, and it will run at 11am. Virtual Harvesting Waiariki… Read Full Story.

Evaluating Budget 2011 – ITI

In: Funding|Policy|PTEs|Tertiary Education

25 May 2011

Guest post by Tim Cullinane, Chair of Independent Tertiary Institutions (ITI) In New Zealand, only Government Ministers and enthusiastic backbenchers ever really use the official title of the Budget which, for the record, was “Building Our Future” this year. For opposition politicians and media commentators, there is a desperate annual race to come up with an alternative and usually negative… Read Full Story.

News 9/5 – Humboldt Award. Circus in Town. Telford Drunk Drivers.

9 May 2011

I’m off to Auckland for an exciting session to plan a qualification review (really, I am excited), so this post was drafted a little early and may miss a few of this morning’s articles. Humboldt Award Massey’s Professor Peter Schwerdtfeger has won a Humboldt award. Apparently he focused on the chemistry and physics of gold, so hopefully he’ll… Read Full Story.

News 5/5 – CPIT Hit. Castration. Tornado Nurse.

5 May 2011

CPIT Hit CPIT could face up to a $10m loss in fees this year due to lower student numbers post-quake, but that’s a worst case scenario. They should still make a substantial surplus. Top Intl Students Education NZ has named the international students of the year. Also, Rotorua’s local paper celebrates international students at Waiariki. Budget $$ The… Read Full Story.

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Tags: ACT, AUT, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Budget, CPIT, Education NZ, Greens, Labour, Lincoln University, Massey University, NMIT, UCOL, Unitec, University of Auckland, University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington, VSM

News 4/5 – Beauty Queen. WISA Accounts. Shaky Auckland.

4 May 2011

Beauty Queen The Massey student who won Miss Universe NZ “is determined to show that brains can go with beauty”. WISA Accounts The Whitireia Independent Students’ Assn accounts still seem to be a mess, about nine months since major problems were identified. It seems the Polytechnic is still suspending access to funds and they are no closer to… Read Full Story.

News 3/5 – Osama’s Death. Quake Radio. PTE Deregistered.

3 May 2011

Osama’s Death Victoria’s Rod Alley says that there will be more terrorism in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area. Victoria’s Robert Ayson also talks about the Afghan situation and again. Quake Radio CPIT broadcasting school students have started a new radio station, C96, to help raise money for quake charities (NZPA). Alcohol Lobbyists The anti-alcohol lobbyists at Otago Uni don’t… Read Full Story.

News 28/4 – Bye Bye Artechmobile. Silly Research. Joint Indian Office.

28 Apr 2011

Media Eric Canterbury’s Eric Crampton has got in the media again, arguing that the RWC will not have great economic returns (he’s quite right, but economic returns are what we fool ourselves about when we really just want to have a party). Bye Bye Artechmobile Possibly the worst named mobile classroom I have seen (not that I’ve seen… Read Full Story.

News 14-4: New TEC CE? Museum Scandal. Steam School.

14 Apr 2011

New TEC CE? Hmm, does the new TEC CE have a first name starting with B? No April Fool’s joke, this one, but a reasonably good rumour. Not quite good enough to run the full name J Museum Scandal Otago Uni’s Mark Stocker has done some good detective work on a statue of Robert Godley gifted to a… Read Full Story.

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