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21 Jul 2011

Apprentice 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 goods and services to the government to have an apprenticeship/internship programme in place for NZ workers”. It’s an interesting idea that has been tried before in limited circumstances (like some… Read Full Story.

News 19/7 – SJS Goes Online. Caged President. Aoraki Outdoor Ed.

19 Jul 2011

SJS Goes Online Student Job Search is planning to shut its six face to face offices around the country and shift to fully online services for students. A national call centre will be retained, and salespeople will be based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. It seems eminently sensible and should have been done years ago, as I’m sure… Read Full Story.

News 14/6 – Chch Quake. WITT Wins. Wellington Combination.

14 Jun 2011

Chch Quake Yesterday’s quakes prompted Lincoln, CPIT and Canterbury to close for the day and today to check out their campuses – here’s some reaction from Canterbury students. The inquest into the CTV building deaths was put off after the quakes – before that, some families had asked for a delay (AFP) until the royal commission had checked… Read Full Story.

News 20/4 – RIP Kenneth Cumberland. Parking U-Turn. Shellfish Teeth.

20 Apr 2011

Kenneth Cumberland Dies Auckland Uni’s Prof Keith Cumberland, a very prominent geographer, has died. I remember well his documentaries and books from my geography study. He was 97. Robot Champs A Massey team has won a world robotics competition. Parking U-Turn Otago City Council denied tertiary staff their carparks and has had to back down after drunken riots… Read Full Story.

News 21/3 – Skill Shortages, Baby Frogs, Sport Ice-Cream

21 Mar 2011

Skill Shortages Fairfax papers had a long piece on skill shortages at the weekend. It’s not that insightful, as it tends to jump between different issues, but it has the ITF’s Jeremy Baker pushing for broad sector skills forecasting/planning and some comments about Christchurch. The TEU was also talking about the need to have trades tutors to train… Read Full Story.

News 16/9 – Quake. EPI. Sea Slugs.

16 Sep 2010

Quake The PM and the Mayor went to UC to thank a student who set up a volunteer scheme to help with the cleanup. There has been a good uptake for a project deploying miniature earthquake recorders in Chch (VUW is involved). An Auckland Uni academic says the tourism industry will bounce back. A Vic architect says Chch could be… Read Full Story.

New 13/9 – Quake, a Sunbathing CE and a Brozilian

13 Sep 2010

Quake Update Things are heading back to normal – CPIT has even put up some photos showing everything is normal. Staff are back at most big places today (UC on Wed) and many students are back too. Since things are getting back to normal, I will stop doing the roundup of news at each institution now and stick to… Read Full Story.

News 30/8 – ITO Vision. Angry Council. Telford Expansion?

30 Aug 2010

Forestry Vision ITOs are covered so rarely in the media, but the NZ Herald had a good story today on FITEC and its work with other ITOs to set up the Primary Industries Trade Academy, but the story also has a wider focus on how industry skills need will be met. In a similar vein, there’s a very… Read Full Story.

Cool Furniture

In: ITOs|Students

5 Aug 2010

FITEC has announced the finalists in its Trainee of the Year competition and I’m happy to profile the furniture trainee finalists and their work. This is the sort of work that you’d normally see coming out of an institution-based design programme, so it’s great to see what can be done via a work-based pathway. Jonathon Shaw of Ken… Read Full Story.

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Tags: Design, FITEC

News 5/8 – English Language School Stats, Chamber Music & Policy Analysts

5 Aug 2010

Adventure 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.

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Tags: English Language Schools, FITEC, National, NMIT, NZUSA, Stats NZ, TEC, UCOL, University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington, Wintec

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