Posts Tagged ‘Funding Caps

Waikato Uni Shuts Door…to any more students in 2010, with 470 turned away for the second semester. 500, here, 1,000 there and pretty soon you have some big numbers that add up much like a hip replacement waiting list for a government. Maybe the government should have a strategy beyond shrugs.
Wintec Opens Door …to India, [...]

This guest post is by Tom Ryan, TEU President.
Recently New Zealand school principals announced that they were worried that pupils leaving their school would end up on the dole rather than in tertiary education study.  “How do you tell someone who has worked really hard to give themselves the chance of going to university that [...]

I recently saw an innovative approach to a tight funding cap. I won’t name the TEO in case they get investigated for some obscure procedural breach, but it seemed reasonable to me.
Since they’ve reached their funding cap, they are now going to enrol people in a similar, non-TEC-approved programme, with no access to funding, loans [...]

PEDA Affair Hits Tertiary You may have heard of the Pacific Economic Development Agency allocation in the Budget – $4.8m for a new body in a non-contestable allocation. It will cause National some problems for a while yet. Anyway, Auckland providers are starting to plan bids for the money, which will include “subcontracting with established [...]

This post follows up from posts on ITP, wananga, university and OTEP over-delivery in 2009 over the last four days – the university post explains the context. The short version is that providers are supposed to be in the 97-103% range, if 100% is their funding allocation. I’m thinking of doing some more analysis on these [...]

This post follows up from posts on wananga, university and OTEP over-delivery in 2009 over the last three days – the university post explains the context. The short version is that providers are supposed to be in the 97-103% range, if 100% is their funding allocation.
Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) mostly operated within the 97-103% range [...]

This post follows up from posts on wananga and university over-delivery in 2009 over the last two days – the university post explains the context. The short version is that providers are supposed to be in the 97-103% range, if 100% is their funding allocation
So, what’s an OTEP? Well, it’s an Other Tertiary Education Provider, which [...]

This post follows up from a post on university over-delivery in 2009 yesterday – that post explains the context. The short version is that providers are supposed to be in the 97-103% range, if 100% is their funding allocation.
The wananga sector performed pretty much spot-on, with their enrolments being worth 100.3% of their funding allocation. With [...]

NZ tertiary education providers face limits on their delivery under the Student Achievement Component – what we used to call EFTS funding. They are expected to enrol students within a 97-103% range of their expected funding (ie 100%). That is calculated by adding up the notional value of all of the enrolments (a medicine enrolment is [...]

One of the big issues in tertiary education last year was whether providers could enrol above their funding cap. Enrolment demand was high due to the recession, while there was slower growth in places than in previous years, so providers were open to getting more funded places (obviously) as well as enrolling unfunded students (mainly [...]


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