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News 31/8 – Blog Paper, SIT’s Lower $$ and Wgtn Buildings
In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
31 Aug 2010A Use for Yesterday’s Blogs A Massey grad has had his work selected for the Anti Design festival in London. He created Blog Roll by developing a software programme that takes the content of any blog and prints it through a fax machine into a 45-metre long roll of one-ply paper. Hmm, maybe there’s my [...]
News 30/8 – ITO Vision. Angry Council. Telford Expansion?
In: Export Education| Funding| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Industry| Industry Input| PTEs| Policy| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities
30 Aug 2010Forestry Vision ITOs are covered so rarely in the media, but the NZ Herald had a good story today on FITEC and its work with other ITOs to set up the Primary Industries Trade Academy, but the story also has a wider focus on how industry skills need will be met. In a similar vein, [...]
News 27/8 – Student Entry, Performance and Loans
In: Funding| ITPs| Policy| Staff| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga
27 Aug 2010Focus on the Numbers Te Wananga O Aotearoa is focusing more on the numbers, in preparation for performance funding, according to the TEU. I’m going to write more about this later today.
Otago Poly Entry Great story this morning in the ODT about Otago Poly’s new approach to entry – I will write more about that [...]
News 25/8 – Lincoln-Telford Merger & Stolen Websites
In: Export Education| Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Policy| Staff| TEI Issues| Universities
25 Aug 2010Lincoln and Telford The merger proposal is moving on, with the Minister calling for submissions on a formal proposal and the institutions releasing details. Stories have been published by NZPA and the ODT.
TEU Won’t Sue NMIT…well, this time anyway
Free Flat “I am very proud to welcome these fine students to UC Accommodation Student Village”, said regular ED [...]
News 20/8 – Credit Card, Cheats and League Tables
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20 Aug 2010Pim’s Credit Card Waiariki has gone on the front foot over having its CE’s credit card bill listed as one of the biggest in the public sector. Pim Borren has pointed out that most of it related to international student marketing, with revenues from that area booming.
Cheating Students Lincoln Uni has proportionally the most cheats amongst NZ’s [...]
News 18/8 – Trades Academies, Whitireia and Problems for Refugees
In: ITPs| Policy| Students| Universities
18 Aug 2010Trades Academies There has been reaction to the announcement of the funded Trades Academies. They’re a bit sad in Gisborne, but 100 students will benefit in Wellington from WelTec’s academy. The Press has a story on Christchurch’s trade academy.
Whitireia Students’ Missing $$ The Young Nats have jumped on the Whitireia bandwagon while Kiwiblog continues to argue [...]
News 17/8 – Whitireia Again, Trades Academies & PM on NMIT
In: ITOs| ITPs| OTEPs| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
17 Aug 2010Whitireia $$ If you want to know more about the money missing from Whitireia Independent Stduents’ Assn, the Newswire site managed by the polytechnic’s journalism students is a good start. They had stories yesterday on police comment, aggrieved students, an exec member’s reaction, an interview with Poly CE Don Campbell, a summary of other associations’ [...]
News 16/8 – Whitireia’s Missing $$, MIT’s Baby Scholarship & Bacon
In: ITPs| Policy| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga
16 Aug 2010Sorry to those that got a post by email with no story at the weekend – I tried to change the font but mucked up the code. Hopefully it should be fixed now. If not, I’ll call in the experts.
MIT’s Great Scholarship Story A 19 year old-man turned up to MIT with a 19 year [...]
News 12/8 – Teacher Ed & Public Health Research/Advocacy
In: ITPs| Policy| Research| Universities
12 Aug 2010Quality Teacher Education Lynn Tozer, an Otago Uni teacher education academic, has writen an op-ed in the ODT about the impacts of squeezing practical elements out of the teacher education programmes in universities. Overall, I think she’s right and that the incorporation of colleges of education into universities had more to do with dreams of [...]
News 11/8 – Vic Gets MP, Loan Fee Cuts, Otago Uni Surplus High
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11 Aug 2010Vic Gets MP Victoria University announced yesterday that current Labour MP Winnie Laban had been appointed Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Pasifika). Improving Pasifika students’ completion rates will be her main focus.
More Places Labour’s Grant Robertson thinks that Steven Joyce needs to find some tertiary education places for those on the dole.
Loan Fee Cuts Student loan borrowers who [...]
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