ACT’s charter school policy has been debated widely in New Zealand since being released on Monday this week in the ACT-National coalition agreement. This post summarises ACT’s proposals… Read Full Story.
I’m starting a series of posts on charter schools in New Zealand, a policy announced yesterday in the ACT-National coalition agreement. My aim in the series will be… Read Full Story.
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22 Nov 2011Policy & Management National’s Policies National released their tertiary education and skills training policies yesterday (APNZ, NZN, Dom Post, ) and a schools policy too. TV1′s Breakfast show… Read Full Story.
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8 Nov 2011Policy & Management Bar Fight The fight over the student bar at Canterbury continues – the Uni is playing a very straight bat but you could hardly be… Read Full Story.
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2 Nov 2011My media monitoring supplier celebrated the first day of our new contract by cutting off my access, so today’s post may miss a few things as some new… Read Full Story.
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31 Oct 2011There are new headings in today’s post, developed during consultation over the last couple of weeks. I won’t define or finalise the headings yet as each day will… Read Full Story.
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26 Oct 2011I hope you’re all keeping warm if the northern North Island gas leak has shut off your institution’s gas heating! Otago EFTS Down Otago Uni’s EFTS will be… 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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23 Sep 2011Christchurch TEI $$ Canterbury Uni is calling for more money to support them in 2012, to cover tuition fee losses (they also won a resilience award yesterday). RNZ… Read Full Story.
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22 Aug 2011Rod Oram wrote an opinion piece on industry training yesterday that sets out some strong views on industry training but also has some enormous errors. I often disagree… Read Full Story.