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News 7/9 – Quake Photos and Info Plus Massey Website
In: Facilities & Equipment| Government on Industry| ICT| ITPs| Industry| Industry Input| Tertiary Education| Universities
7 Sep 2010Quake News (more details at this post from yesterday, but the following info is an update)
Lincoln University gave everyone a week’s extension on assignments. Their website is back up and running with comprehensive info and photos. Their Memorial Hall has major damage (see photo at left), but other buildings will be able to be fixed [...]
News 6/9 – Quake, Completions, Fees, Top Apprentices
In: Policy
6 Sep 2010Coverage of the Christchurch quake’s impact on the tertiary education sector is at this post, which has been updated over the weekend
Quake Study Scientists from GNS Science, Victoria University of Wellington and Stanford University in the US have joined colleagues from Canterbury University to deploy about 40 portable earthquake instruments to record aftershocks over the next few [...]
News 3/9 – First Marketing on Completion Rates. New TEU Prez.
In: Funding| ICT| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Staff| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities
3 Sep 2010First Marketing on Completion Rates Lifeway College is the first provider to use its students’ completions as a marketing tool. They’re promoting a 93% qualification achievement rate according to “the official statistics submitted to the Tertiary Education Commission”, so I assume they’re talking about the soon to be published stats. I’d expect a lot more [...]
News 2/9 – Vic Debaters Win. Massey’s Cleaners and Entry Standards.
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Politics| Staff| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
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 the 46th time Vic has won the title in 109 years, which is pretty impressive (PS I went to Vic).
Massey Entry The Manawatu Standard has done a [...]
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- Tags: AUT, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, International Travel College, Labour, Massey University, Minister - Tert. Ed, North Shore International Academy, Student Loans and Allowances, Unitec, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington
News 1/9 – Labour Defends ITPs. Drug Prices.
In: Export Education| Funding| Government on Industry| ITPs| Industry| Policy| Tertiary Education| Universities
1 Sep 2010Labour Defends ITPs Labour’s Grant Robertson is defending ITPs from funding cuts and roll caps. He noted that the ”Chief Executive of SIT has said the latest cut was ‘something of a surprise’”. Ha ha, if Penny Simmonds was ever surprised at TEC wanting to cut SIT’s funding, it would amaze me!! Grant is also in [...]
News 31/8 – Blog Paper, SIT’s Lower $$ and Wgtn Buildings
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
31 Aug 2010A Use for Yesterday’s Blogs A Massey grad has had his work selected for the Anti Design festival in London. He created Blog Roll by developing a software programme that takes the content of any blog and prints it through a fax machine into a 45-metre long roll of one-ply paper. Hmm, maybe there’s my [...]
News 30/8 – ITO Vision. Angry Council. Telford Expansion?
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30 Aug 2010Forestry Vision ITOs are covered so rarely in the media, but the NZ Herald had a good story today on FITEC and its work with other ITOs to set up the Primary Industries Trade Academy, but the story also has a wider focus on how industry skills need will be met. In a similar vein, [...]
News 27/8 – Student Entry, Performance and Loans
In: Funding| ITPs| Policy| Staff| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga
27 Aug 2010Focus on the Numbers Te Wananga O Aotearoa is focusing more on the numbers, in preparation for performance funding, according to the TEU. I’m going to write more about this later today.
Otago Poly Entry Great story this morning in the ODT about Otago Poly’s new approach to entry – I will write more about that [...]
News 25/8 – Lincoln-Telford Merger & Stolen Websites
In: Export Education| Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Policy| Staff| TEI Issues| Universities
25 Aug 2010Lincoln and Telford The merger proposal is moving on, with the Minister calling for submissions on a formal proposal and the institutions releasing details. Stories have been published by NZPA and the ODT.
TEU Won’t Sue NMIT…well, this time anyway
Free Flat “I am very proud to welcome these fine students to UC Accommodation Student Village”, said regular ED [...]
News 24/8 – $$ at ITPs (Win, Lose and Up In The Air)
In: Funding| ITPs| Policy| Research| Staff| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
24 Aug 2010Wintec Gains $$ Wintec has kept 200 extra places it received as a one-off for 2010 in its draft investment plan for 2011 on, leading CE Mark Flowers to spin that it was a good result for Wintec as the general trend was for institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) to have their funding reduced. [...]
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- News 7/9 – Quake Photos and Info Plus Massey Website
- Review of Chch Quake Impact on Tertiary
- Thoughts on Performance Statistics
- News 6/9 – Quake, Completions, Fees, Top Apprentices
- Tertiary Damage of Chch Quake (TWOA, WelTec Update)
- WITT’s Challenge – Ask for More Money or Find Savings?
- News 3/9 – First Marketing on Completion Rates. New TEU Prez.
- Thoughts on WISA
- News 2/9 – Vic Debaters Win. Massey’s Cleaners and Entry Standards.
- NZITP Gets Moving
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