Posts Tagged ‘English Language Schools’
Jireh International Academy
11 Oct 2010This morning I wrote about the liquidation of Jireh International Academy, based on an NZ Herald story. As I was looking around, I found a few other things. Their main website is down, but there is a cached version on Google and also a similar site that seems to be hosted elsewhere. What struck me about the quote… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: English Language Schools, Maori, NZQA
News 1/10 – Inmate and Police Education. Alumni All Blacks.
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1 Oct 2010Housing Massey’s latest housing affordability survey is out (Herald story). Too Big for Their Boots? The University of Auckland has named an Alumni All Blacks team, which may just be a bit too much for me. VSM Massey Extramural students’ assn doesn’t like VSM, while Lincoln University and its students’ assn jointly condemned the VSM Bill yesterday Inmate… Read Full Story.
News 6/8 – Top Teachers, New NZVCC Name (and Quiz 4 U), Canty Excludes 350
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6 Aug 2010Tertiary Teaching Excellence Ako Aotearoa held their annual Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards on Wednesday night. Here are the releases by the winners’ institutions. There are no media stories yet. I think it’s a mistake by Ako Aotearoa to rely simply on the local releases to drive local stories about the winners – this is a big awards ceremony and… Read Full Story.
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- Tags: AUT, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Education NZ, English Language Schools, Maori, Massey University, NMIT, NZUSA, Otago Polytechnic, Training Opportunities, UCOL, Unitec, Universities NZ, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington
News 5/8 – English Language School Stats, Chamber Music & Policy Analysts
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5 Aug 2010Adventure Tourism High-profile adventure racer Nathan Fa’avae is urging NMIT not to cut an adventure tourism programme, but Tony Gray, the CE, points out that it has high costs and poor completion rates. It sounds like a good candidate for cutting to me. Too Many Policy Analysts? David Farrar over at Kiwiblog weighed in on the government’s new… Read Full Story.
International News 12/7
In: Policy
12 Jul 2010Every 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 the country,… Read Full Story.
News 28/6 – Big Waihi Language School and What You Can Buy for $1.8m
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28 Jun 2010If 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 Waihi Academy… Read Full Story.
News 31/5 – Massey Cuts Access Too, GEOS Loses in Court
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31 May 2010Massey 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 a story on… Read Full Story.
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 release could have… Read Full Story.
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