Posts Tagged ‘Science’

News 27/7 – Plane Crash & Unitec Sponsors Rugby

In: ITPs| Research| Students| Universities

27 Jul 2010

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 restructuring down there.
Plane Crash An instructor and a student died in a plane collision near Feilding yesterday, while the student pilot of the other plane managed to [...]

News 7/7 – ITF on Quals, Talking Fish and a Tagging Chef

In: ITOs| ITPs| Quality Assurance| Students| Universities

7 Jul 2010

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 national standard setting bodies for New Zealand industries, and we look forward to that role being given full effect in the new system”. It will be both [...]

News 24/6 – Falling Demand? Not Dr Fujimori. Homepathy Scandal.

In: Funding| ITPs| Parliament| Politics| Quality Assurance| Research| Students| TEI External Evaluation & Review| Universities

24 Jun 2010

Superb Competition Victoria University has just finished a great project involving one of my old lecturers. Vic students led each of 68 teams made up of students from throughout the world who met online and developed business proposals. The winning team had a plan for Kenyan villages to create cosmetics out of a grain. It’s just [...]

News 18/5 – WelTec Swoops In, Teachers’ Council Revolts and KAREN Expands

In: Facilities & Equipment| ICT| ITPs| Registration & Licensing| Staff| Students| Universities

18 May 2010

I caught the first bug of winter today, so sorry about the delay in this news post.

Go to WelTec, Not VUW WelTec has swooped in to encourage students turned away from VUW because of closed enrolments to do an engineering degree with WelTec.
Teachers’ Council Revolts …against new teachers with poor literacy, although the Council’s Director [...]

News 13/5 – Vic Closes the Door on New Enrolments

In: Export Education| Funding| ITPs| Research| Students| Universities

13 May 2010

NZ ITP is the fourth of our pre-budget posts from sector groups – it’s up at 11am today. You might not have seen their website before, so have a look in the interim.

Vic’s Poor Management After an unscheduled Council meeting yesterday, Victoria University of Wellington has decided to stop taking any new domestic undergraduate enrolments [...]

News 12/5 – Science Funding and Student Caps

In: ITOs| Research| Students| Universities

12 May 2010

Budget Science Boost John Key announced $321m of science funding yesterday (more over at ED Insider for subscribers). The video is below and the media release is here. NBR has a review, as do Stuff and the NZ Herald. 
Enrolment Caps Student concern is rising about several universities bringing forward tighter admission restrictions, while the ODT [...]

News 22 Mar – Steven Joyce, Tim Shadbolt & Paul Wilson

In: ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Students| Tertiary Education

22 Mar 2010

Paul Wilson Honoured Paul Wilson, Tai Poutini Polytechnic CEO, has been awarded the prestigious Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand 2010 Fulton-Downer Gold Medal. He’s done a lot for engineering and he’s a good operator, so congrats Paul – that’s him at left.
Science Funding The ODT wrote an editorial about science issues on Saturday, arguing for [...]

News 11 Mar – Telford and Lincoln to Merge?

In: Funding| ITPs| Quality Assurance| TEI Issues| Universities

11 Mar 2010

Lincoln University and Telford Rural Polytechnic are considering merging in 2011, according to an ODT story today. Telford spokespeople have referred to cuts in funding for short courses as a driver, along with the potential for lower running costs. The two institutions both operate in the primary sector but run complementary courses.
Tertiary reforms

Steven Joyce and [...]

News 10 Mar – Joyce’s big bang, great gardens and science prizes

In: Export Education| Funding| Quality Assurance| Students

10 Mar 2010

Steven Joyce, Minister of Tertiary Education, made announcements yesterday that tertiary tuition funding will be linked to performance (5-10% will be at risk), confirmed decisions about the targeted review of qualifications and repeated recent musings about limiting student loan access. He also made his first major speech. I commented yesterday on announcements. Reaction to the Minister has been swift!

The [...]


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