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15 Dec 2011Policy & Management ITO Costs/Benefits The ITF has released research they commissioned from BERL on the costs and benefits of industry training (Dom Post, Stuff). Extras: Aoraki-Lincoln articulation;… Read Full Story.
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2 Nov 2011My media monitoring supplier celebrated the first day of our new contract by cutting off my access, so today’s post may miss a few things as some new… Read Full Story.
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21 Sep 2011By the way, I have a new contract that you should be aware of. I’m providing behind the scenes support to the Industry Training Federation for a day… Read Full Story.
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16 Sep 2011High Fees Education at a Glance cherry-picking continues, with a series of stories in NZ having the 7th highest fees in the world (TV3, Yahoo, APNZ). Well, wouldn’t… Read Full Story.
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9 Sep 2011Blender Win The Smoobo blender, which we profiled a while back, has won third place for Massey student Roseanne de Bruin at the Electrolux Design Lab competition in… Read Full Story.
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16 Aug 2011Canterbury is closed today, as is Lincoln, CPIT and other Christchurch providers. Aoraki is also closed. Snowy Days Two Nepalese students at WITT were interviewed about the snow…. Read Full Story.
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8 Aug 2011VSM Protest John Key opened the refurbished Bill Robertson Library at Otago Uni on Friday (which sounds like a great development). He was met by a protest against… Read Full Story.
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4 Aug 2011VSM in 2012 Yesterday I wrote to ED Insider clients that it was exceedingly unlikely that the VSM Bill would be debated that day. I’m happy to admit… Read Full Story.
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22 Jul 2011Canty Students Riot Well, Wednesday night started off well, with the Canterbury University Boardriders Assn riding a snow ramp in a uni carpark. But an unofficial after party… Read Full Story.
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21 Jul 2011Apprentice Boost? Labour’s Clare Curran has blogged about a new procurement policy that seems to include skills. If you read the policy, Labour proposes to “require companies providing… Read Full Story.