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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 31/8 – Blog Paper, SIT’s Lower $$ and Wgtn Buildings
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
31 Aug 2010A Use for Yesterday’s Blogs A Massey grad has had his work selected for the Anti Design festival in London. He created Blog Roll by developing a software programme that takes the content of any blog and prints it through a fax machine into a 45-metre long roll of one-ply paper. Hmm, maybe there’s my [...]
News 20/8 – Credit Card, Cheats and League Tables
In: Export Education| Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ICT| ITPs| Students| Universities
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 19/8 – Free Flat, Telford’s Boozers and Cuts Trimmed
In: Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Staff| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga
19 Aug 2010Free Flat My mate Darel Hall is giving away rent on a 5-bedroom flat for a year, worth $40,000. He’s not made of money, especially when it’s his round at the pub (he’s not that bad really), but he heads up Campus Living Villages’ operation down at the University of Canterbury and it’s a good [...]
News 10/8 – Nelson Issues and New CPIT CE
In: Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Students| Universities
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 3/8 – Susan Cullen at NorthTec. Adventure Tourism Cut at NMIT?
In: Export Education| Funding| ITPs| TEI Issues| Universities| Wananga
3 Aug 2010NorthTec Council NorthTec have appointed Susan Cullen as their last Council appointee (I jumped the gun on that when the second to last appointment was made last week). Susan developed the Mahi Ora, Lifeworks and KiwiOra programmes for Te Wananga o Aotearoa and the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. Her business relationships with TWOA were criticised [...]
News 27/7 – Plane Crash & Unitec Sponsors Rugby
In: ITPs| Research| Students| Universities
27 Jul 2010Library Wars Canterbury Uni law students have written a strong submission in support of the retention of their law librarian, who is caught up in the major library restructuring down there.
Plane Crash An instructor and a student died in a plane collision near Feilding yesterday, while the student pilot of the other plane managed to [...]
News 22/7 – WITT Fees Up
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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 12/7 – Waikato Uni Shuts Door
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12 Jul 2010Waikato Uni Shuts Door…to any more students in 2010, with 470 turned away for the second semester. 500, here, 1,000 there and pretty soon you have some big numbers that add up much like a hip replacement waiting list for a government. Maybe the government should have a strategy beyond shrugs.
Wintec Opens Door …to India, [...]
News 8/7 – Glass School Closure? Metros’ Big New Idea.
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ICT| ITPs| Industry Input| PTEs| Students| Universities
8 Jul 2010Metros’ New Idea The Metro ITP are formally launching their Innovation New Zealand network – I’ll write a full post on it later this morning.
Food Miles University of Otago researchers have found that, while food miles are of concern to the UK public, the belief does not translate into action in the supermarket aisles.
Wanganui Glass [...]
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- Brad Heap: Dave, When I was Albany Students' Association President and council rep it certainly wasn't the [...]
- Dave Guerin: I dunno Brad - the EXMSS guy seemed to be suggesting that it would apply to applicants, but I don't [...]
- Brad Heap: Dave, Enrolment fees are charged at enrolment, not application. Often you apply for many unis bu [...]
- Dave Guerin: Cheers Darel - just created a new post with a shorter summary of everything. Great to hear that thin [...]
- Darel: Just had time to take a breath. No Halls students injured and no material damage at Uni Hall, Ilam [...]
- News 7/9 – Quake Photos and Info Plus Massey Website
- Review of Chch Quake Impact on Tertiary
- Thoughts on Performance Statistics
- News 6/9 – Quake, Completions, Fees, Top Apprentices
- Tertiary Damage of Chch Quake (TWOA, WelTec Update)
- WITT’s Challenge – Ask for More Money or Find Savings?
- News 3/9 – First Marketing on Completion Rates. New TEU Prez.
- Thoughts on WISA
- News 2/9 – Vic Debaters Win. Massey’s Cleaners and Entry Standards.
- NZITP Gets Moving
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