Posts Tagged ‘Metros

Spotlight is a series of posts where ED Blog asks 5 questions of interesting people in tertiary education (see other posts). Today, we have Rick Ede, the CE… Read Full Story.

Welcome to some new tertiary education lobbyists (or sector leaders if you prefer). Unitec’s CE Rick Ede is the new Chair for the Metro Group of ITOs (whoops!… Read Full Story.

Drug 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… Read Full Story.

Gap Filling I’ve liked the idea of CPIT architecture filling in vacant site since I heard of it and they did it last week, with one group creating… Read Full Story.

Budget NZUSA sets out their hopes for the Budget. Stuff talked to a Victoria student about his financial situation, while the Bay of Plenty Times spoke to the… Read Full Story.

Student Loans Steven Joyce announced potential student loan changes on Q+A yesterday. They include stopping over 55s getting loans for living costs, stopping access to private pilot license… Read Full Story.

New TEC CE? Hmm, does the new TEC CE have a first name starting with B? No April Fool’s joke, this one, but a reasonably good rumour. Not… Read Full Story.

Well, it is that time of year when bouquets and brickbats are awarded by all those journos and bloggers who can’t be bothered generating new content, so I… Read Full Story.

NZ Herald Misses the Mark The NZ Herald continues their assault on dodgy education providers in an editorial but attacks English language schools, when every single problem it uncovered in Saturday’s stories was about… Read Full Story.

The Metros’ Group of ITPs has taken a major positive step with the launch of their Innovating New Zealand website (see Metros’ media release here), which “will connect companies… Read Full Story.


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  • dean: I loved that you started to question my own motives. BTW. [...]
  • dean: Well, err, um i was actually trying to point out how potentially futile ascribing motive to somethin [...]
  • Dave Guerin: Dean, an organisation can argue as it wishes. Given the collection of stories and releases today, NZ [...]
  • dean: Sigh, really ... You question (am I right in saying negatively?) an organisation's motives on som [...]