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Posts Tagged ‘Open Entry’
News 23/7 – Massey Shuts Door! SIT Shuts Gate! Talkback Radio Gets New Topic!
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| Politics| Research| Universities
23 Jul 2010Massey Shuts Door Grant Robertson (Labour) wrote last night that Massey had closed the door on summer school enrolments, because they had reached their funding cap. The Big News blog pointed out that classes that are not full (and many won’t be, given the previous closing date was November) will not be run. Massey’s announcement is here. The Dom [...]
Allan Peachey Speaks Out on Uni Entry
In: Politics| Universities
29 Jun 2010Those of you familiar with Allan Peachey, ex Rangitoto College principal and current National MP, might not be surprised that he is speaking out, but he has been pretty quiet recently. He chairs the Education and Science Committee, which he does well from my experience, but otherwise has had a low profile. A blog post [...]
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- Tags: Allan Peachey, National, Open Entry, VSM
Guest Post: Missing Out on the Chance to Learn
In: Funding| Universities
29 Jun 2010This guest post is by Tom Ryan, TEU President.
Recently New Zealand school principals announced that they were worried that pupils leaving their school would end up on the dole rather than in tertiary education study. “How do you tell someone who has worked really hard to give themselves the chance of going to university that [...]
News 25/6 – PEDA, Low Pass Rates & Dirtiest Flat
In: Funding| ICT| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities
25 Jun 2010PEDA Affair Hits Tertiary You may have heard of the Pacific Economic Development Agency allocation in the Budget – $4.8m for a new body in a non-contestable allocation. It will cause National some problems for a while yet. Anyway, Auckland providers are starting to plan bids for the money, which will include “subcontracting with established [...]
News 22/6 – NZITP Op-Ed, Feelgood Story & Partying Students
In: Export Education| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Politics| Research| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities
22 Jun 2010NZITP Op-Ed James Buwalda of NZITP, a group representing 14 ITPs, had an opinion piece published yesterday on Stuff. One of the commenters on the story gave a harsh review of it, saying that it didn’t convey a clear opinion, but I assume it’s a soft piece designed to rehabilitate ITPs. BY itself, I don’t [...]
News 21/6 – University Access, All Blacks and Gondolas
In: ITOs| ITPs| OTEPs| Students| Universities
21 Jun 2010ODT Feature on University Access The ODT has a story and a long feature on university entrance issues quoting Steven Joyce, Pete Hodgson, a BNZ economist and me (rambling on a bit). The articles cover a lot of ground and show the increasing interest in access issues. One argument that I made didn’t seem to come [...]
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- Tags: Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, HSI, Labour, Lincoln University, Minister - Tert. Ed, NCEA, Open Entry, Student Loans and Allowances, Tai Poutini Polytechnic, Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Waikato
News 18/6 – Uni Access, New Bill, Maharey Challenged and 20 more Stories
In: Export Education| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| PTEs| Parliament| Quality Assurance| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Universities
18 Jun 2010Welcome to all the new readers this week – we’ve had a wee spike in traffic – and let me know if you’d like to see anything new or different. Today’s post is pretty enormous to end the week.
Uni Access There’s a really good NZ Herald story today about university entrance, covering a wide range [...]
News 9/6 – Otago Entry, Waikato Court Loss & Apple Cake
In: Facilities & Equipment| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Research| Universities
9 Jun 2010We have 7 universities covered today, but didn’t have a story for Lincoln – maybe next time we’ll get the clean sweep.
Otago Access Limits In major entry changes, the University of Otago will stop personal interest enrolments, give top students preferential access (with others going through a longer application process, which might involve non-academic criteria), [...]
News 3/6 – Lost Thumb, Whips, Cheese Rolls and Clean Streams
In: Export Education| ITOs| ITPs| Parliament| Research| Students| Universities
3 Jun 2010I’d like to start today by expressing my sorrow at the death of Jiayi Li, a Chinese student who came here to learn and grow, but lost her life.
Uni Not Only Option So says the Industry Training Federation, which points out that limited university entrance is not the end of the world.
Zero Fees in Queenstown [...]
News 31 Mar – Closed Entry, Marc Ellis and ITP Councils
In: Funding| ITPs| Students| TEI Issues| Tertiary Education| Universities
31 Mar 2010Rod’s Closing the Doors Rod Carr, University of Canterbury VC, is calling for tighter entry to university again, with former MP Liz Gordon taking the opposite view. David Choat wrote a post for ED Blog about Rod’s last foray here.
G-G Gets it Easy The Governor-General, Anand Satanyand, has had it easy with his visit to the University [...]
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- Tags: Equity Funding, Open Entry
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- Dean Carroll: I agree Darel; another positive externality. I also think that Dave overstates the barriers. Surely [...]
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