Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’

News 28/7/10 – There was an Immigration Scandal (well, arrests anyway)

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Universities

28 Jul 2010

Forestry Awards The forestry ITO, FITEC, is getting ready for its national awards – they get top billing as the ITF conference starts in 5 minutes.
Student Debt John Key has criticised the nature of the student loan scheme – but no major details other than pointing out the 47% writeoff.
Immigration Arrests Yesterday I published an [...]

Immigration Scandal?

In: Export Education| PTEs| Quality Assurance

27 Jul 2010

I received an anonymous tipoff this morning that visa applications to a PTE had been suspended after a staff member had been arrested for “offences against the Immigration Act 1987 and the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007″. Since I can’t easily verify some aspects, I’ll leave out any details of the organisation named (and I’ll also carefully [...]

News 15/7 – It’s Steven Joyce Day!

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| Research| Strategy & Policy| Universities

15 Jul 2010

Steven Joyce Day I’m naming today Steven Joyce day because all the big stories today stem from his speech yesterday at Victoria University on tertiary education policy.

The Dom Post focused on the review of universities’ big extra student support fees (UCOL too from memory) as did the NZ Herald (NZPA had a piece too). VUW, AUT and [...]

News 1/7 – Allowances Boom, ITP MECA and Skill Shortages

In: Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Staff| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities

1 Jul 2010

Allowances Boom in 09 Steven Joyce was on Morning Report yesterday talking about student allowances increases in 2009, while NZUSA put out a release about it too. Allowances eligibility was loosened, while enrolments went up.
Tainui College The -Tainui College for Research and Development has its first academic director. The buildings were built ten years ago but [...]

Immigration Waiting Lists Grow

In: Export Education

28 Jun 2010

I forgot to include a story in the news roundup this morning about long immigration processing times. The Immigration Minister, Jonathan Coleman, is pretty grumpy that he only just found out from the export education sector (rather than his department) about the long processing times and has sent a “please explain” message to the Immigration NZ [...]

Bottom Feeders Caught in Auckland

In: Export Education| Quality Assurance

9 Apr 2010

I have no time for bottom feeders in education and the latest bunch were highlighted in a Sunday Star Times article at the weekend. API Institute of Education (also using the name Edinburgh Institute of Education) had their registration cancelled by NZQA in February after there were concerns about the quality of results being reported (presumably [...]

Australia – Skill Shortages and Export Education

In: Export Education

16 Feb 2010

Australia is facing turmoil in its export education industry due to immigration changes, which may create opportunities for NZ providers.
Many of the people who  study overseas want to stay after they finish study. It’s usually a good deal, as graduates enter the workforce with the host country not having paid for any of their childhood, [...]


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