Posts Tagged ‘Maori’

News 1/7 – Allowances Boom, ITP MECA and Skill Shortages

In: Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Staff| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities

1 Jul 2010

Allowances Boom in 09 Steven Joyce was on Morning Report yesterday talking about student allowances increases in 2009, while NZUSA put out a release about it too. Allowances eligibility was loosened, while enrolments went up.
Tainui College The -Tainui College for Research and Development has its first academic director. The buildings were built ten years ago but [...]

News 2/6 – New Ministry Name Announced, TEC Chair Speaks Out

In: ITPs| Research| Students

2 Jun 2010

New Science Ministry MORST and FRST are being merged – the new name will be the Ministry of Science and Innovation. I think they should have called it a Centre and then they could have had a cool CSI acronym…
SIT in India The Southland Times  has requested info on SIT’s John Wright marketing trip to [...]

News 10/5 – Canty Music, Nude Vets & VSM

In: ITOs| PTEs| Staff| Students| Universities

10 May 2010

This is a bumper news edition, plus check out recent comments (see sidebar at right) on the TEU and ITF Budget posts last week – very shortly we should have NZUSA and ITI.

Learning State Learning State, the public sector ITO, is to be established as a separate company – it is currently part of the [...]

News 30/4 – Careerforce Criticised, Auckland gets Creative

In: ITOs| Research| TEI Issues

30 Apr 2010

ITP Councils Whitireia Community Polytechnic has rounded out its Council by appointing four members of its community to hold office from 1 May, 3 of whom are on the current Council – the new member, Kabini Sanga, is an interacting character – read this story about his main area of work with Pasifika people. Bay of [...]

News 24/3 – Joyce’s Academic Record, SIT Freebies and Joint PhD

In: Export Education| ITOs| Research| Staff

24 Mar 2010

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Joyce’s Academic Career Maryan Street (Labour) posed a question to Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce in Parliament yesterday about performance-related funding (video). Maryan [...]

The Indigenous Qualifications Authority

In: Quality Assurance| Tertiary Education

19 Mar 2010

Today the media monitoring came up with a Whakatane Beacon story about a new Pouarahi (CE) for Te Korowai Aroha O Aotearoa, a national non-government Maori education and training authority. I’d never heard of them before, so I had a quick look into them and found some interesting things. Here’s a summary from their site.
Te Korowai [...]

ITP Musical Chairs 5 – External Roles

In: ITPs| TEI Issues

23 Feb 2010

Employer and union reps are currently guaranteed positions on institute of technology and polytechnic (ITP) Councils until April 30, but should they keep that privilege? I say no. (This is the fifth post in a series on ITP Council changes.)
I’m very supportive of employer and union involvement on ITP councils (and I mean both groups, because there [...]

News 20 Feb – Media Control, Maori Success and Software Faults

In: Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Policy| Students| Tertiary Education

20 Feb 2010

In a media control move worthy of Tiger Woods, OUSA is seeking to control footage of Orientation events so that broadcasters can’t show “severe intoxication . . . including, but not limited to vomiting, concussion, fighting, individuals receiving medical attention, and sexually explicit material”. It probably sounded good when it was approved but (a) it [...]


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