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15 Nov 2010Export Ed Shake-up Radio NZ reports on the proposed formation of a new export education promotion entity to combine work by the MOE, NZTE and Education NZ. The NZ Herald has a longer piece. Which Books? An Otago Uni emeritus professor has written a book about which great books to read – maybe he should have turned it into a blog??? Exhibition Season Art in the garden up at NorthTec. AUT’s Rookie… Read Full Story.
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12 Nov 2010I’ll be announcing some news about Education NZ later this morning, now that I have more info – thanks to those who replied. Queen Bea for BEST BEST Pacific Institute of Education (BEST) has recruited Olympic sportswoman Beatrice Faumuinā as Chief Executive of a new leadership academy and charitable foundation dedicated to training Pasifika leaders. They’ve also got Lester Levy involved. Great work by… Read Full Story.
Nursing to Unis? The TEU republished, with my consent, an ED Insider post about proposals to shift nursing from ITPs to universities. Shooting Game A third-person shooting game made by a group of students from Auckland’s Media Design School has been chosen as one of five finalists in the student section of the 2nd Independent Games Festival Awards (IGF) China. That’s pretty impressive… Read Full Story.
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9 Sep 2010Lots of news today, so a late delivery of this. Monday had our biggest site visits and page views ever, with the earthquake, but yesterday surpassed visits by 1 and page views by 39%, with quake and performance stats coverage. Educational Performance Information TEC released education performance information yesterday – there was also a TEC media release and one… Read Full Story.
I forgot a new Industry Training Federation (ITF) media release this morning so I thought I’d tie it in with a post about a cool new game from the Retail Institute (an ITO). The ITF put out a media release on Friday stating that qualifications gained at ITOs cost a quarter of as much as those gained at tertiary… Read Full Story.