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1 Feb 2012Policy, Management & People A View on Everything This opinion piece covers almost every issue in current tertiary education in short bites. Since it is probably just written… Read Full Story.
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25 Jan 2012Policy, Management & People Diving Deaths There will be no charges for a training provider, subcontracted to Adventure Education, that had two students die as there was no… Read Full Story.
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23 Jan 2012Policy, Management & People New TV Ads I was going to write a post about new TV ads put out by ITPs, but StopPress wrote much the same… Read Full Story.
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16 Dec 2011Policy & Management Youth Unemployment The Reject Youth Unemployment coalition wants to meet Paula Bennett to discuss youth unemployment issues – given it is a leftwing coalition that… Read Full Story.
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14 Dec 2011Policy & Management Student Fees Otago Uni has boosted its 2012 student services fees by $92 above the uni and students’ assn charges this year, while OUSA will… Read Full Story.
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23 Nov 2011Policy & Management Whitireia-WelTec Merger Steven Joyce has approved the Whitireia-WelTec council merger. Fees There were fears that Otago Uni’s fees would rise by 4% and they did…. Read Full Story.
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18 Nov 2011Policy & Management MIT Review It is review season and MIT has the latest one. TEU has released details of 28 potential job losses in a rightsizing review…. Read Full Story.
I went to the NZITP conference last week, which was quite enjoyable – good people and some interesting sessions. Last year I wrote a long post about attending… Read Full Story.
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7 Sep 2011Student Chase A thief was unlucky when he stole from a Dunedin flat – the female Otago Uni student who confronted and then chased him was a NZ… 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.