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13 May 2011

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 country (reprioritisation of existing funding), $42m for additional places at ITPs, ITOs and PTEs if required, accelerated training, ITO skills brokers, Work and Income to subsidise 650 people by end… Read Full Story.

News 30/3 – Dodgy Uni. Loan Repayments. Mild Massey Expansion.

30 Mar 2011

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 giving her the degree she achieved because she didn’t have a visa! (They enrolled her, took her money, taught her and assessed her work, but now they won’t issue the… Read Full Story.

News 18/2 – Bahrain. Shaky Bonds? Higher RWC Prices?

18 Feb 2011

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 ago (about 1:30 into the file). Better Education Wanted TEU staff at the University of Auckland have turned down a 4% pay rise because they want “better education”. Drilling down,… Read Full Story.

News 8/2 – Open Poly-India, AUT Neutrality, Sports Turf Trip

8 Feb 2011

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 scepticism about the numbers. Greening the Rubble Lincoln students and staff (plus many others) will be showcasing their Greening the Rubble project today. Bahrain Polytechnic A THE story this week… Read Full Story.

NZ’s Tertiary Education Ups and Downs 2010

23 Dec 2010

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 thought I should do the same for tertiary education. My colleague Marina Matthews provided assistance, but I’ll take any criticism you may wish to offer. Best Policy The release of… Read Full Story.

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Tags: Immigration, Labour, Massey University, Metros, Minister - Tert. Ed, NZQA, Performance funding, Student Loans and Allowances, UCOL, Unitec

News 16/12 – New Visa/Loan Rules, First Year Cut

16 Dec 2010

First Year Cut Otago Uni has cut its first year intake by 224 as it seeks to manage its overall numbers. New Visa Rules New immigration rules will make it easier for international students (media release). New Loan Rules Students who default on student loan repayments may have their entire loan recalled by IRD. Cool Building Method A new hall of… Read Full Story.

News 22/11 – PTE Regulation, Sex and Intl Students. Pike River.

22 Nov 2010

PTE Regulation The NZ Herald reported yesterday on Grant Robertson’s (Labour) support for Steven Joyce’s PTE regulation changes – although Grant put in a few caveats, as one would expect (Grant’s media release). The NZ Herald has also followed up on last weekend’s stories on dodgy business schools by pointing out that the main ones blacklisted by Massey were the three closed down… Read Full Story.

Dodgy Diplomas, Slow Govt Response

In: Export Education|Policy|PTEs|Tertiary Education|Universities

14 Nov 2010

Andrew Laxon at the NZ Herald has apparently been ringing around a lot of people up in Auckland about dodgy providers and 3 stories were put up on Saturday. The main story is that Massey identified 50 students with (I assume) the NZ Diploma of Business who had very poor English and no hope of finishing a business degree. Massey then refused to take students from five “schools”… Read Full Story.

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Tags: AIS ST Helens, Immigration, International Travel College, Languages International, NZQA

News 18/10 – Kingsland to Close? Summer Jobs. School Leavers Chased.

18 Oct 2010

My media monitoring service upgraded its software over the weekend, which meant that it stopped working (not much of an upgrade really). To be fair, I did get some stories about yacht races, but they didn’t seem too useful to blog readers. So this news post will be a bit shorter than usual, but things should be back… Read Full Story.

News 11/8 – Vic Gets MP, Loan Fee Cuts, Otago Uni Surplus High

11 Aug 2010

Vic Gets MP Victoria University announced yesterday that current Labour MP Winnie Laban had been appointed Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Pasifika). Improving Pasifika students’ completion rates will be her main focus. More Places Labour’s Grant Robertson thinks that Steven Joyce needs to find some tertiary education places for those on the dole. Loan Fee Cuts Student loan borrowers who have… Read Full Story.

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