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News 29/7 – Intl Students Up, Student Loans & Food Safety
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29 Jul 2010International Students Up International students were up 7%in the first four months of 2010, following a 6% rise in FY 2009. PTEs were up 8%, ITPs up 15% and unis up 4%. SIT is showing good growth this year, going from 220 international EFTS in 2009 to 259 so far this year, and is on [...]
News 23/7 – Massey Shuts Door! SIT Shuts Gate! Talkback Radio Gets New Topic!
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23 Jul 2010Massey Shuts Door Grant Robertson (Labour) wrote last night that Massey had closed the door on summer school enrolments, because they had reached their funding cap. The Big News blog pointed out that classes that are not full (and many won’t be, given the previous closing date was November) will not be run. Massey’s announcement is here. The Dom [...]
News 16/7 – Joyce Day II, Wintec Carpark and TEU Corner
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16 Jul 2010Joyce’s Ripples The ripples from Joyce’s speech continue to expand. Nelson teaching students, studying with the University of Canterbury, are happy with Joyce’s look at student services fees. They had already protested, and seemingly gained a reduction, in Canterbury’s fees, given that most of their time is spent in Nelson, where Canterbury has very few [...]
News 15/7 – It’s Steven Joyce Day!
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15 Jul 2010Steven 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 24/6 – Falling Demand? Not Dr Fujimori. Homepathy Scandal.
In: Funding| ITPs| Parliament| Politics| Quality Assurance| Research| Students| TEI External Evaluation & Review| Universities
24 Jun 2010Superb Competition Victoria University has just finished a great project involving one of my old lecturers. Vic students led each of 68 teams made up of students from throughout the world who met online and developed business proposals. The winning team had a plan for Kenyan villages to create cosmetics out of a grain. It’s just [...]
News 22/6 – NZITP Op-Ed, Feelgood Story & Partying Students
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22 Jun 2010NZITP Op-Ed James Buwalda of NZITP, a group representing 14 ITPs, had an opinion piece published yesterday on Stuff. One of the commenters on the story gave a harsh review of it, saying that it didn’t convey a clear opinion, but I assume it’s a soft piece designed to rehabilitate ITPs. BY itself, I don’t [...]
News 21/6 – University Access, All Blacks and Gondolas
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21 Jun 2010ODT Feature on University Access The ODT has a story and a long feature on university entrance issues quoting Steven Joyce, Pete Hodgson, a BNZ economist and me (rambling on a bit). The articles cover a lot of ground and show the increasing interest in access issues. One argument that I made didn’t seem to come [...]
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- Tags: Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, HSI, Labour, Lincoln University, Minister - Tert. Ed, NCEA, Open Entry, Student Loans and Allowances, Tai Poutini Polytechnic, Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato
News 16/6 – Grant Robertson, Rita Angus & SkyCity
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16 Jun 2010Labour Spokesperson It’s confirmed – Grant Robertson is the new Labour spokesperson on tertiary education. Most stories focus on other players, such as these from NZPA, NZPA (2), GayNZ.com, the ODT, Kiwiblog and many more that I haven’t listed. There’s some background on Grant in the Press. Best quote from Grant was “There are lots of issues [...]
News 15/6 – New Labour Tertiary Ed Spokesperson?
15 Jun 2010Labour Shuffle The shuffle of Labour responsibilities after the expenses scandal demotions will probably lead to Grant Robertson getting the tertiary education portfolio from Maryan Street (who will get foreign affairs), according to the Dominion Post and NZ Herald, although the Herald suggests that Grant still might get foreign affairs. I’ve known Grant since we [...]
Someone turned up the news heat today. There are some great wee stories below.
Residence for Study This is a chunky Dominion Post story. NZVCC Chair Derek McCormack is calling for foreign student graduates to automatically get residency. Steven Joyce said no, but then said that he wanted to review the allocation and coordination of international education promotion [...]
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- Dean Carroll: I agree Darel; another positive externality. I also think that Dave overstates the barriers. Surely [...]
- Darel: I agree Dean. I wonder if one of the side benefits is to get people constructively focused on t [...]
- Dean Carroll: I too think that this is an excellent idea as it (a) focuses on the effective and efficiency of the [...]
- Big News: My follow up to the Massey enrolment cuts is <a href="http://big-news.blogspot.com/2010/07/b [...]
- Sheldon Nesdale: All that news in just one day Dave? [...]
- ITF Proposes New School Quals
- Will NZQA Close Six PTEs?
- News 30/7 – Grumpy Students and Staff to End the Week (Plus Horses)
- News 29/7 – Intl Students Up, Student Loans & Food Safety
- News 28/7/10 – There was an Immigration Scandal (well, arrests anyway)
- Immigration Scandal?
- News 27/7 – Plane Crash & Unitec Sponsors Rugby
- Cool Student Video – Sub With a Twist
- News 26/7 – Massey and Otago Entry Issues
- Sex and the Homestay Host
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