Posts Tagged ‘English Language Schools

TEU News The TEU had a bit of news yesterday, with five ITPS appealing a ruling against a collective agreement (really, what employer appeals for a collective agreement?),… Read Full Story.

5,000 New Students? A new development at Whangarei will apparently lead to 5,000 new English language students from offshore – well, so goes the NewstalkZB story. It’s part… Read Full Story.

Levy Controls Steven Joyce has announced a new Bill to control what institutions charge for student services levies and require student input (NZPA, RNZ). NZUSA welcomed it and… Read Full Story.

CPIT’s Recovery CPIT is planning a staged return to their main campus, to give them time to check and clean it, but also to allow students and staff… Read Full Story.

I’m up at the Higher Education Summit in Auckland today and tomorrow (I’m chairing tomorrow’s sessions), so since I’m on an early flight today, this news update will… Read Full Story.

Quake Deaths The Press has a story on two homestay hosts (the parents of one of my wife’s friends) who discuss the loss of the Thai student, Haruthaya… Read Full Story.

Warm Moment A Japanese King’s Education student is visited by her rescuers. CTV Building There will be an inquiry into the CTV and PGC building collapses, but it… Read Full Story.

A US State Department cable on export education in NZ has been released via WikiLeaks, with a focus on the reasons for the decline in Chinese enrolments at that time…. Read Full Story.

I had a few offline comments last week about my post on Roy Sharp’s retirement. The tenor was that I had been too soft, that Roy hadn’t done… Read Full Story.

NZ Herald Misses the Mark The NZ Herald continues their assault on dodgy education providers in an editorial but attacks English language schools, when every single problem it uncovered in Saturday’s stories was about… Read Full Story.


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  • Richard Hamilton-Williams: Tinkering with funding on the basis of the age of students doesn’t have a very successful track re [...]
  • dean: I loved that you started to question my own motives. BTW. [...]
  • dean: Well, err, um i was actually trying to point out how potentially futile ascribing motive to somethin [...]
  • Dave Guerin: Dean, an organisation can argue as it wishes. Given the collection of stories and releases today, NZ [...]
  • dean: Sigh, really ... You question (am I right in saying negatively?) an organisation's motives on som [...]