The New Year’s Honours List 2012 included many people from the tertiary education sector, so ED Blog would like to restart its Thumbs Up series by recognising the… Read Full Story.
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21 Dec 2011Policy & Management Whitireia Buildings Whitireia has pulled out of a $3m contribution to a performing arts development in Porirua, both because they’ve moved their course into Wellington… 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.
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20 Jul 2011New Secretary of Education Lesley Longstone is the new Secretary of Education and will replace Karen Sewell in November (Dom Post, RNZ, NZEI, PSA). Longstone is currently the… Read Full Story.
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28 Jun 2011NorthTec-TWOA Hook-up TWOA will be co-locating at NorthTec’s main Whangarei campus from August 1. MOE Review The MOE didn’t do so well in a formal review of the… Read Full Story.
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27 Jun 2011Lots of interesting stories today and very few tedious media releases! Bye Jonathan! Jonathan Walmisley is moving on from Telford, having served as CE and then as head… Read Full Story.
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7 Jun 2011ITO Review Steven Joyce has ordered a sweeping review of the ITO system, with the MOE to start it soon. He also referred to sale of quals and… Read Full Story.
The government has just released a series of state sector restructuring proposals, including that ERO and NZQA should merge. I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on it. The merger proposal does explain one odd inclusion in the Education Amendment Bill… Read Full Story.
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4 Apr 2011April Fool’s Day Friday’s April Fool’s Day spoof about Sir Harawira Gardiner being named TEC CE seemed to fool a few people, but I was happy that Wira… Read Full Story.
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31 Mar 2011Levy Controls Steven Joyce has announced a new Bill to control what institutions charge for student services levies and require student input (NZPA, RNZ). NZUSA welcomed it and… Read Full Story.