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5 Jul 2011Te 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.
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7 Apr 2011Seems 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.
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17 Mar 2011Happy 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.
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8 Mar 2011I’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.
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21 Feb 2011“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.
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20 Oct 2010EIT-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.
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19 Oct 2010Given 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.
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12 Oct 2010Shaky 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.