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News 9/9 – Sector Stats and Quake – What More News Do You Need?
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Politics| Staff| Statistics & Analysis| Students| TEI External Evaluation & Review| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities
9 Sep 2010Lots of news today, so a late delivery of this. Monday had our biggest site visits and page views ever, with the earthquake, but yesterday surpassed visits by 1 and page views by 39%, with quake and performance stats coverage.
Educational Performance Information
TEC released education performance information yesterday – there was also a TEC media release and [...]
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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 16/8 – Whitireia’s Missing $$, MIT’s Baby Scholarship & Bacon
In: ITPs| Policy| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga
16 Aug 2010Sorry to those that got a post by email with no story at the weekend – I tried to change the font but mucked up the code. Hopefully it should be fixed now. If not, I’ll call in the experts.
MIT’s Great Scholarship Story A 19 year old-man turned up to MIT with a 19 year [...]
News 30/7 – Grumpy Students and Staff to End the Week (Plus Horses)
In: Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Staff| Students| Universities
30 Jul 2010Otago Entry Reqs Otago school principals and guidance councillors seem happy with the higher entry standards for the University of Otago next year, even though they refused to be named for the story.
Mongol Derby A Massey academic is chief vet for the Mongol Derby, a 1,000km horse relay race in, well, Mongolia. He colleagues have [...]
News 29/7 – Intl Students Up, Student Loans & Food Safety
In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| TEO Sector Groups| Universities| Wananga
29 Jul 2010International Students Up International students were up 7%in the first four months of 2010, following a 6% rise in FY 2009. PTEs were up 8%, ITPs up 15% and unis up 4%. SIT is showing good growth this year, going from 220 international EFTS in 2009 to 259 so far this year, and is on [...]
News 22/7 – WITT Fees Up
In: Export Education| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Students| Universities
22 Jul 2010WITT Fees up WITT has increased its fees by 4% across the board, but has not increased its $40 student services fee (or other fees). This is the first fees increase for next year that I’ve seen reported.
Capital Times A columnist in Wellington’s Capital Times likes Steven Joyce’s graduate outcomes idea, mainly for the focus [...]
News 19/7 – Graduate Outcomes Debate Goes On: Someone Supports It!
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19 Jul 2010Funding for Outcomes: Negative Reaction continues about Steven Joyce’s proposal to look at linking graduate outcomes to funding some time in the future. And it amazes me how simplistic so many of the arguments are.
In an article on Manawatu opinions, UCOL CE Paul McElroy argued that a TEO shouldn’t be ”held wholly responsible for these outcomes through [...]
News 16/7 – Joyce Day II, Wintec Carpark and TEU Corner
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16 Jul 2010Joyce’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 24/6 – Falling Demand? Not Dr Fujimori. Homepathy Scandal.
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24 Jun 2010Superb 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 [...]
Best Tertiary Websites – ITPs 2
18 Jun 2010This is my second post on the best websites in the tertiary education sector – full details are here. I’ll assume that all websites provide an electronic brochure to what courses are on offer, so I’ll be looking for:
effective use of Facebook, Twitter or other social media (and if I can’t find links to them on a [...]
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- Mary: Actually the educationcounts data suggests (though it is not detailed enough to be definitive) that [...]
- Stephen Day: Yes, but we didn't say 'any' low performance is simply a matter of the students targeted. What we sa [...]
- Dave Guerin: Petrak, you need to back up that statement. The SDR Manual says that the Qualification Completion Fi [...]
- Dave Guerin: The TEU media release opens as follows: "Predictably, tertiary institutions with higher numbers o [...]
- Stephen Day: "The TEU takes the view that any low performance is simply a matter of the students targ [...]
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