Posts Tagged ‘Media Design School

Spotlight is a new series of posts where ED Blog asks 5 questions of interesting people in tertiary education. First up, we have Frances Valintine, the Chief Executive of Media Design School. She’s a bit shy this week, so is hiding behind a book   1. What’s the biggest challenge on your desk right now? One of the… Read Full Story.

ED Blog will close up shop for the year on Friday and restart on 4 or 10 January (depends on how my break is going). Any coverage in between will be done for major stories on ED’s Facebook or Twitter. If you get emails, I can pause your subscription for you – just let me know the dates…. Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Joyce’s Roles The NZ Herald reckons that Steven Joyce can “expect to leap to a front-bench position and the economic development and science and innovation portfolios as well as hanging on to tertiary education”. That’s been my pick for some time too. Ad Complaint Unitec had a complaint made to the Advertising Standards Authority about… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Lincoln Buildings TV3 had a piece last night on Lincoln’s closed-off buildings. Bond Problems Canterbury could be facing problems with its NZDX bonds (NZ Herald). EER Excitement An Auckland Maori PTE got a good EER report but not a great one but still got a gushing story on RNZ and an even more gushing media… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Canterbury Woes Canterbury will have an $11.4m budgeted loss next year, based on their media release – different figures were reported in media yesterday (TV3, BusinessDesk, NBR, RNZ, TEU). 24 staff have been given voluntary redundancy at Canterbury (39 applied). New HSI CE The new HSI CE is Ken Harris – you can find out… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Senior School The Timaru Herald has a great interview with the Roncalli College principal about university/non-university pathways that is well worth a read. Canterbury Cuts Staff cuts at Canterbury made The Press but there was no new info. AUT Learning Precinct…is a year away from completion and AUT provides an update. Aoraki Changes The Timaru… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Money Laundering Tow foreign students had their identities used by a fraudster to launder money. CPIT Pay A CPIT pay offer is going to staff for a vote. Looks like it might pass. Aoraki Cuts The TEU says staff are gutted about course cuts at Aoraki. There’s also a story on the Ashburton situation and… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Bar Fight The fight over the student bar at Canterbury continues – the Uni is playing a very straight bat but you could hardly be aggressive over putting a bar next to a primary school… New Film School Head Sashi Meanger will be the new head of the NZ Film and Television School in Wellington…. Read Full Story.

Rena Waikato’s’ Chris Battershill spoke to the Science Media Centre, RNZ and the Bay of Plenty Times about the impacts of the oil spill, and to the NZ Herald about sand extraction. You can check out a video of the Massey-organised team cleaning a penguin (and it then swimming in the rehab pool) and an overview of the… Read Full Story.

Dodgy Surveillance Law The Government is introducing retrospective law to validate illegal police surveillance. Auckland’s Bill Hodge thinks it’s OK, but Victoria’s Dean Knight concludes a long blog post with “We, as a country, should be embarrassed by this”. I’m with Dean. Fee Rises Bay of Plenty Polytechnic put up fees by 2.5% and Waikato Uni by 4%… Read Full Story.


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