Posts Tagged ‘NZQA’

ITOs Hit Rough Patch

In: ITOs| Policy

1 Mar 2010

Industry training organisations (ITOs) and Modern Apprenticeships are getting some negative press, which is a byproduct of them moving from a sheltered policy environment to a more accountable one. ITOs do good things, but they have been helped and hampered by uncritical analysis of their performance, and by flattering comparison of them to the missteps [...]

News 18 Feb – NZQA and TEC go to Parliament

In: Export Education| Funding| Parliament| Policy| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education

18 Feb 2010

The TEC doesn’t know how tertiary enrolments are looking, or so said Roy Sharp to the Education and Science Committee yesterday. Since TEC’s investment managers will have been contacting all of the bigger providers, I’m sure Roy does have some good indications of enrolments, but obviously he wasn’t asked the right questions (or they weren’t [...]

NZQA’s Good Job on Language Schools

In: Export Education| Policy

4 Feb 2010

I’ve criticised NZQA in the past about their work with English language schools (ELS) and not just when I represented the ELS sector. NZQA has been guilty of implementing some poorly designed systems over the years and following up very quickly. To be fair, the last Labour government shot from the hip on this issue [...]


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  • naked and off his trolley March 10, 2010
    Previous | Image 1 of 5 | Next Nadine Amsler (17) in trolley and Peter Ralph (19), both of Bay of Islands, cause a stir. Shedding clothes could not quite help University of Otago students Peter Ralph (19) and Nadine Amsler (17), both of the Bay of Islands, to the top spot in the K-Mart Trolley Race in... […]
  • Kiwis sticking with school for longer March 10, 2010
    New Zealanders spend an average of 19.7 years in education, two years more than in 1999, an Education Ministry report shows. However, another study says participation rates in tertiary education have slightly declined. […]
  • Lecturer 'at the wrong place at the wrong time' March 10, 2010
    A Lincoln University lecturer killed in a car crash at Belfast on Friday was at the wrong place at the wrong time, her family says. Lyn Boddington, 50, died on Friday afternoon in a crash at the intersection of Main North Rd and Dickies Rd. […]
  • SIT media student's new movie poised to win hearts and minds March 10, 2010
    Saturday night marked the debut of third-year SIT Digital Media student Matt Inns' second short feature Oku Tuakana, My Brothers at Centrestage in Invercargill. […]
  • NZUSA... Coming To A Town Near You March 10, 2010
    National student leaders will be helping students save their services as they visit campuses around the country this month. NZUSA is visiting member associations and their institutions from Auckland to Dunedin in a fortnight-long tour of universities, polytechnics, and institutes of technology. […]
  • Auckland University Should Look To Government March 10, 2010
    Auckland University Should Look To Government, Not Students, For Money Staff and students shouldn't be competing for the same money, says TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs. […]
  • Grind turns doodle to sculpture March 10, 2010
    Take one doodle, add copious amounts of blisters and sweat over almost three years, and you get Christian Hunt's new sculpture at Massey University. The Oamaru stone sculpture stands behind the new Te Waiora centre, a place for students to explore spirituality. […]
  • Overseas Universities Luring Kiwi Students March 10, 2010
    Overseas Universities Luring Kiwi Students “The low cost university system that our children access today risks becoming the poor quality system that our grandchildren desert tomorrow,” says the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Auckland, Professor Stuart McCutcheon. […]
  • Home at last March 10, 2010
    An Otago Peninsula yellow-eyed penguin attacked by a shark at the end of January is welcomed home to Dunedin by Department of Conservation biodiversity ranger Mel Young yesterday, while Willis Ratahi, of Air New Zealand, looks on. […]
  • Tertiary Education Reforms Long Overdue March 10, 2010
    Like thousands of other parents around the country I've delivered my university aged children to their respective universities in the past couple of weeks. […]
  • Leading Education Agents Visit NZ March 10, 2010
    Putting New Zealand in the Education Spotlight as 50 Leading Education Agents Visit NZ Click to enlarge “The best way to sell New Zealand as a study destination is to let people see it with their own eyes,” declares Robert Stevens, Chief Executive of Education New Zealand. […]
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