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News 9/9 – Sector Stats and Quake – What More News Do You Need?

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9 Sep 2010

Lots of news today, so a late delivery of this. Monday had our biggest site visits and page views ever, with the earthquake, but yesterday surpassed visits by 1 and page views by 39%, with quake and performance stats coverage.

Educational Performance Information

TEC released education performance information yesterday – there was also a TEC media release and [...]

News 4/8 – Cap Impact at Waikato, Performance Funding

In: Funding| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Quality Assurance| Universities

4 Aug 2010

Hamilton’s the Place to Summer The University of Waikato has not made any cuts to its summer school due to funding caps, but that mainly seems to be because the summer school starts in January 2011. Waikato Uni has, however, closed a personal financial planning course, which was eligible for financial adviser registration purposes, due [...]

News 14/5 – Reaction to VUW Caps plus Lincoln-Telford Merger

In: Funding| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Universities

14 May 2010

Our fifth sector group comments on the upcoming budget today at 9.30am - it’s NZUSA, covering the student viewpoint.

Vic’s Enrolment Shutdown Unsurprisingly, yesterday’s media was dominated by VUW’s decision to stop taking enrolments for the rest of 2010.

NZUSA said that the doors of opportunity had been slammed shut twice on students, at VUW and Otago (which [...]

News 6/5 – Study Hours, Loans and the Verlaines

In: Funding| ITPs| Students| Universities

6 May 2010

Our budget series started yesterday with Tom Ryan of the TEU contributing a guest post on union wishes for the Budget. Check it out.

Study Hours My Monday post on students’ study hours now and in 1966 made it onto Radio NZ’s Morning Report yesterday (3:41). The post originated from some US research and John Gerritsen got [...]

News 16/4 – 9 on ITP Councils, Plus Orangutans and Barbie

In: TEI Issues

16 Apr 2010

ITP Councils

Several polytechnics commented on their Council members yesterday, covering the Ministerial appointees and/or the local appointees – here are releases from UCOL, Wintec, WelTec and Unitec.
Labour’s Maryan Street has put out a well-argued release about the challenges the new Councils will face to represent their communities.
The Greens’ Gareth Hughes is concerned that there are [...]


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  • Stephen Day: Yes, but we didn't say 'any' low performance is simply a matter of the students targeted. What we sa [...]
  • Dave Guerin: Petrak, you need to back up that statement. The SDR Manual says that the Qualification Completion Fi [...]
  • Dave Guerin: The TEU media release opens as follows: "Predictably, tertiary institutions with higher numbers o [...]
  • Stephen Day: "The TEU takes the view that any low performance is simply a matter of the students targ [...]

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