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25 Oct 2011RIP Frank Holmes Emeritus Prof Sir Frank Holmes, a giant in NZ public policy and economics circles, died yesterday morning at the age of 87 (NewstalkZB, Business Day,… Read Full Story.
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21 Oct 2011Thanks to all those who filled in the ED Blog survey – well over 100 of you. I’ll close it at 5pm today and provide feedback next week…. Read Full Story.
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10 Oct 2011Labour Policy Labour released their tertiary education policy on Friday (media release). The ACE sector liked it. Ship Cleanup Massey’s Brett Gartrell and his team is looking to… Read Full Story.
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29 Sep 2011VSM Bill Passes ACT’s Heather Roy celebrated her VSM Bill passing, providing freedom of association for students, as did Act on Campus and the Young Nationals (NewstalkZB, RNZ,… Read Full Story.
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16 Sep 2011High Fees Education at a Glance cherry-picking continues, with a series of stories in NZ having the 7th highest fees in the world (TV3, Yahoo, APNZ). Well, wouldn’t… Read Full Story.
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8 Sep 2011VSM The VSM Bill passed its committee stage Earlier in the day students called for a compromise, but they had already lodged a request for an urgent Waitangi… Read Full Story.
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7 Sep 2011Student Chase A thief was unlucky when he stole from a Dunedin flat – the female Otago Uni student who confronted and then chased him was a NZ… Read Full Story.
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22 Aug 2011Psychopaths? In a study just crying out for journalistic, if not academic, review, Victoria’s psychologists release a survey showing commerce students are more likely to display psychopathic tendencies…. Read Full Story.
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17 Aug 2011UE The NZ Herald has written an editorial supporting the University Entrance changes. Youth Policy TV3′s Duncan Garner took an axe to the government about whether it was… Read Full Story.
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12 Aug 2011No NZQA-ERO Merger Various agencies were approved for merger yesterday by Cabinet, but NZQA and ERO were not included and the merger is now off the table. Good… Read Full Story.