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News 24/8 – $$ at ITPs (Win, Lose and Up In The Air)
In: Funding| ITPs| Policy| Research| Staff| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
24 Aug 2010Wintec Gains $$ Wintec has kept 200 extra places it received as a one-off for 2010 in its draft investment plan for 2011 on, leading CE Mark Flowers to spin that it was a good result for Wintec as the general trend was for institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) to have their funding reduced. [...]
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 28/7/10 – There was an Immigration Scandal (well, arrests anyway)
In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Universities
28 Jul 2010Forestry Awards The forestry ITO, FITEC, is getting ready for its national awards – they get top billing as the ITF conference starts in 5 minutes.
Student Debt John Key has criticised the nature of the student loan scheme – but no major details other than pointing out the 47% writeoff.
Immigration Arrests Yesterday I published an [...]
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- Tags: CPIT, FITEC, Immigration, Massey University, NMIT, NZQA, Open Polytechnic, Red Cross
News 29/6 – Terry Barnett, Cleaner Training and Cuts at Aoraki
In: Export Education| Funding| Government on Industry| ITOs| ITPs| Registration & Licensing| Research| Students| Universities
29 Jun 2010Tom Ryan of the TEU will have a guest post at 11am today on university entry.
Terry Barnett Honoured A group of student mentors at NorthTec have honured former CEO Terry Barnett (pictured) by presenting him with a patu rakau to recognise his support for student learning.
Training Cleans Up The Dom Post has a good story [...]
News 28/6 – Big Waihi Language School and What You Can Buy for $1.8m
In: Export Education| ITPs| Research| TEO & ITO Annual Reports| Universities
28 Jun 2010If you have a minute, check out NZQA’s new website – it looks attractive and replaces the old, rather less attractive site. It has a more accessible navigation structure and the search function has useful subcategories all in one place.
$45m Waihi School A $45m development outside Waihi is starting to open its doors to foreign students. The [...]
Best Tertiary Websites – ITPs 1
16 Jun 2010Back in mid-March I wrote that I was going to put up some options for the best websites in the tertiary education sector. And then I forgot about it. Well, now I’m going to get started.
This won’t be an official competition with prizes or entries, and I won’t be grading everyone on a fixed scale. [...]
News 25/5 – New TEC Chair Leaked
In: ITPs| Universities
25 May 2010New TEC Chair Sir Wira Gardiner will be the new TEC Chair, with Cabinet approving him last week. Trans Tasman predicted he would get the role a few weeks ago, so kudos to them. I think he’ll go quite well, although the TEC Board tends to be a lot less influential than the Minister, regardless of [...]
Minister Appoints Steven Joyce, Minister for Tertiary Education, appointed Suzanne Snively to the Councils of WelTec and Whitireia Community Polytechnic – the last two vacant Ministerial appointments after 78 positions were appointed last week. Suzanne is the current deputy chair at Whitireia, a PWC partner and a very capable person – I’m happy she’s been [...]
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- Review of Chch Quake Impact on Tertiary
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