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News 16/7 – Joyce Day II, Wintec Carpark and TEU Corner

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| Research| Staff| Strategy & Policy| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities

16 Jul 2010

Joyce’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!

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| Research| Strategy & Policy| Universities

15 Jul 2010

Steven 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 13/7 – Robots in the Vines, Loan Problems and FRST $$

In: Funding| ITPs| Research| Students| Universities

13 Jul 2010

UCOL’s Nursing Mannequin UCOL has just bought Anne, a training mannequin that can even scream. Cool. Anne can also become Andy with some quick rearrangement.
Robotics The University of Canterbury is introducing robotics to horticulture to prune vines. It’s a cool idea, especially if it looks like the photo.
Loan Problems? It seems that some students might [...]

News 9/7 – Is Massey Going to Get Dirty?

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Staff| Students| Universities

9 Jul 2010

Massey Dirty, For Sale? The Service and Food Workers’ Union is protesting a proposed major cut in cleaning at Massey University. Hours will be cut generally and there will be a term-time cleaning focus, with only 31 weeks of the year guaranteed for work (presumably some staff will clean year round). Massey is also selling [...]

News 6/7 – Staff Shortage? Bibles in Timaru. New Quals Framework.

In: ITPs| Research| Staff| Students| Universities

6 Jul 2010

Staff Shortage? Sharn Riggs of the TEU has posted over at very popular left-blog The Standard that we need staff to teach new students. It’s a well-researched post arguing that rising student numbers should be matched by rising staff numbers. I disagree that there should be an automatic link but it’s good to see issues [...]

Why Michael Cullen was wrong and Steven Joyce is right

In: Policy

1 Jul 2010

I’m the ‘junior member’ of the ED team, and most of my tertiary writing has been for the Insider and other projects rather than for ED Blog. But I said to Dave that I wanted to write something in response to the recent announcement of the tertiary funding rates for 2011.
These rates put the money [...]

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

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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 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 2010

Superb 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 21/6 – University Access, All Blacks and Gondolas

In: ITOs| ITPs| OTEPs| Students| Universities

21 Jun 2010

ODT 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 [...]

Who sets university entrance?

In: Quality Assurance| Universities

15 Jun 2010

This might kick off a series of posts on university entrance (although David Choat’s February post on open entry might be the first) as there are a lot of interesting aspects to it.
Many readers will think that NZQA sets university entrance standards (in consultation with universities of course) and they will be both right and [...]


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