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News 9/9 – Sector Stats and Quake – What More News Do You Need?
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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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- Tags: Aoraki Polytechnic, AUT, Avonmore Tertiary Institute, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, BCITO, Careerforce, Completions, CPIT, Greens, Labour, Massey University, Minister - Tert. Ed, MIT, NMIT, NZITP, NZUSA, Open Polytechnic, Retail Institute, SIT, TEC, TEU, UCOL, Unitec, Universities NZ, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, Waiariki Institute of Technology, WelTec, Whitireia Community Polytechnic
News 7/9 – Quake Photos and Info Plus Massey Website
In: Facilities & Equipment| Government on Industry| ICT| ITPs| Industry| Industry Input| Tertiary Education| Universities
7 Sep 2010Quake News (more details at this post from yesterday, but the following info is an update)
Lincoln University gave everyone a week’s extension on assignments. Their website is back up and running with comprehensive info and photos. Their Memorial Hall has major damage (see photo at left), but other buildings will be able to be fixed [...]
News 30/8 – ITO Vision. Angry Council. Telford Expansion?
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30 Aug 2010Forestry Vision ITOs are covered so rarely in the media, but the NZ Herald had a good story today on FITEC and its work with other ITOs to set up the Primary Industries Trade Academy, but the story also has a wider focus on how industry skills need will be met. In a similar vein, [...]
News 25/8 – Lincoln-Telford Merger & Stolen Websites
In: Export Education| Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Policy| Staff| TEI Issues| Universities
25 Aug 2010Lincoln and Telford The merger proposal is moving on, with the Minister calling for submissions on a formal proposal and the institutions releasing details. Stories have been published by NZPA and the ODT.
TEU Won’t Sue NMIT…well, this time anyway
Free Flat “I am very proud to welcome these fine students to UC Accommodation Student Village”, said regular ED [...]
News 20/8 – Credit Card, Cheats and League Tables
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20 Aug 2010Pim’s Credit Card Waiariki has gone on the front foot over having its CE’s credit card bill listed as one of the biggest in the public sector. Pim Borren has pointed out that most of it related to international student marketing, with revenues from that area booming.
Cheating Students Lincoln Uni has proportionally the most cheats amongst NZ’s [...]
News 17/8 – Whitireia Again, Trades Academies & PM on NMIT
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17 Aug 2010Whitireia $$ If you want to know more about the money missing from Whitireia Independent Stduents’ Assn, the Newswire site managed by the polytechnic’s journalism students is a good start. They had stories yesterday on police comment, aggrieved students, an exec member’s reaction, an interview with Poly CE Don Campbell, a summary of other associations’ [...]
News 16/8 – Whitireia’s Missing $$, MIT’s Baby Scholarship & Bacon
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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 10/8 – Nelson Issues and New CPIT CE
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10 Aug 2010Nelson Issues The Nelson Mail’s editorial suggests that the government should be asked for more money to avoid cutting NMIT’s creative writing and adventure tourism programmes. Unfortunately, it does not come up with many strong arguments for keeping the adventure tourism programme (other than it is unique, which it’s not – Tai Poutini Polytechnic offers [...]
News 6/8 – Top Teachers, New NZVCC Name (and Quiz 4 U), Canty Excludes 350
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6 Aug 2010Tertiary Teaching Excellence Ako Aotearoa held their annual Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards on Wednesday night. Here are the releases by the winners’ institutions. There are no media stories yet. I think it’s a mistake by Ako Aotearoa to rely simply on the local releases to drive local stories about the winners – this is a big [...]
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- Tags: AUT, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Education NZ, English Language Schools, Maori, Massey University, NMIT, NZUSA, Otago Polytechnic, Training Opportunities, UCOL, Unitec, Universities NZ, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington
News 5/8 – English Language School Stats, Chamber Music & Policy Analysts
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5 Aug 2010Adventure Tourism High-profile adventure racer Nathan Fa’avae is urging NMIT not to cut an adventure tourism programme, but Tony Gray, the CE, points out that it has high costs and poor completion rates. It sounds like a good candidate for cutting to me.
Too Many Policy Analysts? David Farrar over at Kiwiblog weighed in on the [...]
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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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