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26 Jan 2012Policy, Management & People Flight School Buy Helipro has bought Bay Flight Aviation, a flight school that went into liquidation. Fake Quals Immigrants are being caught out by… Read Full Story.
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23 Dec 2011Merry Xmas and have a great holiday break to all of you. Update: posts will resume Monday 9 January. In the meantime, we are posting top stories of… Read Full Story.
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20 Dec 2011Policy & Management Agencies Differ Over Pilot School A Palmerston North flying school, Wings Flight Training Academy, seems at high risk of closure after the International Education Appeal… Read Full Story.
A report from the US last week provides a good example of how mystery shoppers can work as a quality assurance tool. The US Government Accountability Office has… Read Full Story.
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17 Oct 2011The Rena Grounding shows again the great contribution that academics can make to both understanding and addressing problems, and the willingness of students to volunteer to help. Congrats… Read Full Story.
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7 Oct 2011THE Rankings The NZ Herald has a story on the latest THE rankings – I wrote a post last night on them. AUT Fraud Jonathan Kirkpatrick has been… Read Full Story.
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14 Sep 2011Election Policies The Waikato Times has a good discussion of tertiary education needs and election policies. If I were you, I’d read it. Uni Impact Otago Uni has… Read Full Story.
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15 Aug 2011Snow Closures Lincoln is closed today due to snow (see picture), as is Canterbury and CPIT. RIP Sir Paul Reeves AUT Chancellor Sir Paul Reeves died of cancer… 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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11 Aug 2011UE Changes NZQA has changed University Entrance (UE) requirements, sparking comment from Business NZ, the Tourism Industry Assn (dislike) and Universities NZ (support) and stories from RNZ, Dom… Read Full Story.