Posts Tagged ‘Open Polytechnic

Policy & 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 launched a few weeks out from the election, complained about “the last three years” and is now inviting Bennett to meet via media release, I suspect they may not be… Read Full Story.

Policy & 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 be able to keep all of its staff. 13 Top Professors Auckland has named 13 new Distinguished Professors – 5 existing ones were appointed in 2001. Does this start an… Read Full Story.

Policy & 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. CPIT Settlement CPIT has settled an agreement with TEU members. National’s Policy Me on TV about National’s policy yesterday morning. Artena Merger Artena put out a release about how well… Read Full Story.

Policy & 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. Labour Policy Labour released training policy. Whitireia Settlement Whitireia has reached a new employment agreement with TEU members. Commercialisation Auckland has an interesting new Masters in Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship. It… 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 their first conference, so I thought I’d write a follow-up. The organisers made some good choices about sessions and I really enjoyed some industry presentations by people from IPENZ (Andrew… Read Full Story.

Student 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 400m junior rep. New Trades Academies Anne Tolley announced ten new trades academies yesterday (NewstalkZB), involving UCOL, NMIT, Unitec, MIT, EIT, WITT, Tai Poutini Poly, Wintec, Open Poly and the… Read Full Story.

UE 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 Post, TV3, NewstalkZB and NZ Herald – the latter is the best one, with some good comments by NZUSA.. Student Games 12 Massey students are part of a 62-strong group… Read Full Story.

Yesterday was the first weekday news post missed since ED Blog started, other than the Xmas break and public holidays. Sorry for that, but my media monitoring site was so slow that connections were being lost and I couldn’t access the stories. I’ll have a back-up system running on Monday. Great White Sharks Auckland Uni (with NIWA and… Read Full Story.

Brigid Heywood You might not know that name, but she’s the new AVC (Research) at Massey and she seems opinionated and eloquent in this profile, so we may well hear a lot more from her. PM in India The PM’s trip to India included export education and research initiatives – Auckland Uni’s David Baker said the money wasn’t… Read Full Story.

Smashing Pokies Otago Poly occupational therapy students dropped a pokie machine from a crane to demonstrate the shattering impact of the machines. Top Vet Here’s a profile of Massey’s vet school head Frazer Allan – it’s well worth a read. UFB The EPMU has also weighed in on the labour supply for ultrafast broadband debate. Harawira by 10%?… Read Full Story.


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