Posts Tagged ‘ITF’
Jeremy Baker on the Move
11 Jul 2011Jeremy Baker, Executive Director at the Industry Training Federation, is on the move after five years. He’s taking up the role as CE of Learning State, the ITO for the central (and recently local) government sectors. He starts at Learning State on 12 September. Now I’m not the most neutral person here, as Jeremy and I have been… Read Full Story.
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News 21/6 – Most Trusted? Maori Trade Training. Lobbying Questioned.
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21 Jun 2011Drug Bust An Otago Poly student was found with $15-20,000 of cannabis (NB Police estimate, probably inflated and based on street value) in Cromwell last October. He got off with six months community detention. Most Trusted? It may seem nice that 3 scientists, two affiliated with unis, topped the Readers’ Digest most trusted list, but one would hope… Read Full Story.
News 13/6 – Picking Winners. King’s Education Inquest. ITF Changes.
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13 Jun 2011White Terraces Found I was pretty happy about scientists finding the Pink Terraces in January but it turns out they also found the White Terraces (TVNZ), but only found out after going through all the data (and then waited until the 125th anniversary of their destruction to announce it). Waikato Uni was involved. Picking Winners KPMG has proposed… Read Full Story.
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News 18/5 – Dodgy ITOs? Loans and Human Rights. Quals Fraud?
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18 May 2011Dodgy 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 (Stuff). Personally, I suspect they were more disorganised and slack than dodgy (and the fact that almost half did it suggests a systemic weakness), but the Minister wasn’t very happy… Read Full Story.
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News 16/5 – Tighter Loans. Handley to Crete. ITP $$ + TEU-Wintec Stoush.
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16 May 2011Tighter Loans Steven Joyce has given more detail on student loan tightening, which will include stopping over 55s borrowing for living costs, and tightening borrowing for student pilots and those who borrowed previously. This should reduce the loans write-off from 47c to 43c in the dollar and save $60m pa. Handley to Crete WITT CE Richard Handley is… Read Full Story.
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News 7/4 – New Intl Ed Body. Congrats on 125 Years. Otago Poly Terms.
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7 Apr 2011Seems that ED Blog is banned in China – I don’t think I’ve been rude about China, but who knows? Hope it’s not banned anywhere in NZ New Intl Ed Body Steven Joyce announced yesterday that he would be creating a new Crown entity (NZPA) to take over most of the functions of Education New Zealand, and the… Read Full Story.
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News 21/3 – Skill Shortages, Baby Frogs, Sport Ice-Cream
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21 Mar 2011Skill Shortages Fairfax papers had a long piece on skill shortages at the weekend. It’s not that insightful, as it tends to jump between different issues, but it has the ITF’s Jeremy Baker pushing for broad sector skills forecasting/planning and some comments about Christchurch. The TEU was also talking about the need to have trades tutors to train… Read Full Story.
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News 11/2 – The Running VC, Otago Discipline and Creative Trades
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11 Feb 2011Don’t Drink …is the message of many stories today. First up, the alcohol ban around the University of Canterbury starts next Thursday. There is also a conference at Massey titled “Sport and Alcohol: Finding the Balance”, where Jim Anderton spoke yesterday on banning alcohol sponsorship (and here). The Running VC Canterbury Uni’s VC Rod Carr is using science… Read Full Story.
News 29/10 – Improving ITOs. Happy Teachers’ Day! High Pay.
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29 Oct 2010ITOs to Improve The ITF is seeking to move on from recent bad news stories by pointing out that ITOs are committed to improve, reflecting the government’s shift from participation to outcomes. Seems like a good move. Nice ITo Annual Reports I meant to mention this a couple of weeks back, but the Agriculture ITO, Competenz and the Building and Construction ITO are 3 of the 5 finalists in… Read Full Story.
News 15/10 – More for Unis? Sea Lions Attack! (Headlines Are Not Related)
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15 Oct 2010Spend more on Unis? Universities New Zealand has released a report by NZIER that apparently “that government investment in New Zealand’s universities provides a significant permanent increase to GDP”. I shall reserve judgment on the report until I read it. Literacy Up? Steven Joyce announced the release of a TEC report on literacy yesterday. The ITF thought the… Read Full Story.
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