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14 Nov 2011Policy & Management Apprenticeships A Retail Meat ITO board member is on the soapbox for a Stuff election story on apprenticeships. Raukawa Te Mana Akonga president says that… Read Full Story.
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9 Sep 2011Blender Win The Smoobo blender, which we profiled a while back, has won third place for Massey student Roseanne de Bruin at the Electrolux Design Lab competition in… Read Full Story.
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18 Aug 2011AUT Fraud Plea Ex-AUT staffer Jonathan Kirkpatrick pleaded guilty to 7 fraud charges relating to $665,000 yesterday. He gave no reason for the theft but his lawyer said… Read Full Story.
A busy couple of days coming up. I’m at the ITF conference in Auckland today and tomorrow, and will squeeze in the opening of Unitec’s North Shore campus…. Read Full Story.
Pim to Brisbane Waiariki CE Pim Borren has been appointed CE of Brisbane’s Southbank Institute of Technology (link to Southbank). He’ll start in November. It’s a big appointment,… Read Full Story.
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29 Jun 2011Robot Forklifts In a great story of graduate success, unlimited covers a group of Auckland Uni engineering students who, after competing in an international robotics competition, visited a… Read Full Story.
It’s getting to the end of the year and a few people that I know in tertiary education are moving on or changing roles and I’d like to… Read Full Story.
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14 Nov 2010Andrew 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… Read Full Story.
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18 Oct 2010My 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… Read Full Story.
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2 Sep 2010Vic Debaters Dominant Victoria University debaters came out on top in the Joynt Scroll university debating competition, with their A and B teams contesting the final. It is… Read Full Story.