Posts Tagged ‘Science

Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori – Maori Language Week Lots of students taking Maori courses at WITT. Massey has a new official waiata and is doing other… Read Full Story.

Seems that ED Blog is banned in China – I don’t think I’ve been rude about China, but who knows? Hope it’s not banned anywhere in NZ New… Read Full Story.

Happy St Patrick’s Day. Also, on an unrelated note, the term “boffin” will be used extensively for the rest of this week, as a reader was missing the… Read Full Story.

I’m up at the Higher Education Summit in Auckland today and tomorrow (I’m chairing tomorrow’s sessions), so since I’m on an early flight today, this news update will… Read Full Story.

“Question: How do you get the country’s eight universities to co-operate? Answer: Turn off the funding tap. That was the gist of a cheeky crack last week from… Read Full Story.

EIT-Tairawhiti Merger Steven Joyce officially called for comment on the proposed merger of Tairawhiti Polytechnic and EIT – I covered an EIT release about it last week. I… Read Full Story.

Given a backlog of stories, this is today’s second news post. There’s a story below on training DHB board members, which reminds me that ED consultant David Choat… Read Full Story.

Shaky Start NZAPEP’s conference has been rescheduled, after being postponed when the Chch earthquake happened a few days before it was scheduled to run. Loan Rules Jacinda Ardern,… Read Full Story.

Library Wars Canterbury Uni law students have written a strong submission in support of the retention of their law librarian, who is caught up in the major library… Read Full Story.

ITF on Quals The ITF has put out a release about the new quals framework and Jeremy Baker has laid down the challenge: “Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) are the… Read Full Story.


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  • Richard Hamilton-Williams: Tinkering with funding on the basis of the age of students doesn’t have a very successful track re [...]
  • dean: I loved that you started to question my own motives. BTW. [...]
  • dean: Well, err, um i was actually trying to point out how potentially futile ascribing motive to somethin [...]
  • Dave Guerin: Dean, an organisation can argue as it wishes. Given the collection of stories and releases today, NZ [...]
  • dean: Sigh, really ... You question (am I right in saying negatively?) an organisation's motives on som [...]