Posts Tagged ‘Immigration

Pregnant Students Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman might drop a policy that means pregnant foreign students must go home (NZN). Canterbury Staffing Canterbury is calling for staff to seek… Read Full Story.

Andrew Laxon at The NZ Herald had a story today on problems at Ivy College. It’s a PTE that changed hands in Feb 2010 and has since expanded… Read Full Story.

Immigration changes were announced by Minister Jonathan Coleman on Wednesday (media release, speech, Immigration NZ details). Some of the changes, pasted below, seem likely to hit sub-degree courses… Read Full Story.

Research on Teenagers Four Chinese women studying at King’s Education and who died in the quake have been formally identified by the coroner – an inquest for 106… Read Full Story.

Dodgy ITOs? The Minister and TEC put out a release yesterday about recovery of $4.3m from 18/38 ITOs over 2009 enrolments that were not backed by the records… Read Full Story.

Canterbury Trades $$ Steven Joyce announced a package for trades training in Christchurch. This includes up to 3,000 more construction-related training at ITPs in Christchurch and around the… Read Full Story.

Dodgy Uni Immigration NZ is concerned about AUT’s action in enrolling an international student without a student visa, while still charging her international student fees, and now not… Read Full Story.

Bahrain Best wishes to those kiwis in Bahrain, especially at Bahrain Polytechnic! An interview with a kiwi (Gavin Cate?) from the Poly was run on RNZ 15 minutes… Read Full Story.

Uni Staff Shortages A TVNZ piece ran last night on the Universities NZ academic staff workforce report –Eric Crampton also wrote a blog post on it, with some… Read Full Story.

Well, it is that time of year when bouquets and brickbats are awarded by all those journos and bloggers who can’t be bothered generating new content, so I… Read Full Story.


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