Posts Tagged ‘Funding Caps

This week’s Thumbs-Up is to policy based on data, and more specifically Steven Joyce’s priming the public for 3 changes to student loan eligibility. I’m not giving the… Read Full Story.

A guest post by Tim Cullinane, Chairperson of Independent Tertiary Institutions (ITI) Even before the events of 22 February 2011, Finance Minister Bill English was signalling that it… Read Full Story.

Hair is Tops The Hairdressing ITO is celebrating its good results in the ITO performance data release. Coincidentally I popped down to their new offices yesterday and they’re… Read Full Story.

ITO Data Out TEC released the ITO performance data yesterday (also Steven Joyce media release). I might write a bit about it later. ATTTO welcomed them – they did well…. Read Full Story.

I have some great gossip today but I’ve pledged not to reveal it for the moment – hopefully later today! In other news, I’m running a Xmas party next Tuesday in Wellington… Read Full Story.

Last week, I mentioned in this post a story about investment plan discussions at WITT. WITT was facing a funding cut that was $0.55m higher than expected and the Council was… Read Full Story.

Labour Defends ITPs Labour’s Grant Robertson is defending ITPs from funding cuts and roll caps. He noted that the ”Chief Executive of SIT has said the latest cut was… Read Full Story.

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… Read Full Story.

School’s Out for Summer Well, it is for a quarter of courses at the University of Canterbury’s summer school, which have been cut. The VC is saying they’re mostly… Read Full Story.

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… Read Full Story.


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