Posts Tagged ‘English Language Schools’

International News 12/7

In: Policy

12 Jul 2010

Every once in a while I have too many interesting stories from overseas sitting in my bookmarks, so it’s time to share.

English UK, a body representing English language schools, have won a High Court battle over entry restrictions. The previous Labour government required people to have a higher level of English before they came into [...]

News 28/6 – Big Waihi Language School and What You Can Buy for $1.8m

In: Export Education| ITPs| Research| TEO & ITO Annual Reports| Universities

28 Jun 2010

If you have a minute, check out NZQA’s new website – it looks attractive and replaces the old, rather less attractive site. It has a more accessible navigation structure and the search function has useful subcategories all in one place.

$45m Waihi School A $45m development outside Waihi is starting to open its doors to foreign students. The [...]

News 31/5 – Massey Cuts Access Too, GEOS Loses in Court

In: Export Education| Funding| Government on Industry| ITPs| PTEs| Research| Universities

31 May 2010

Massey Cuts Access Massey University is closing second semester enrolments early, cutting back summer school offerings and introducing preferential entry based on NCEA results next year. The Manawatu Daily Standard has a good story with reactions. There’s also a long story about access restrictions in general at Vic student paper Salient. The Dominion Post has [...]

News 3 Mar – Whitireia Council, GEOS and completions

In: Export Education| ITOs| TEI Issues

3 Mar 2010

Whitireia Community Polytechnic is having open nominations for the four non-Ministerial Council places. The Council statute shows that none of the four places have been reserved for any group or role.
In other news from Whitireia, staff there have recently completed a report on an evaluation of programmes that support nurses in their first year of work. The media [...]


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