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News 9/9 – Sector Stats and Quake – What More News Do You Need?

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Politics| Staff| Statistics & Analysis| Students| TEI External Evaluation & Review| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities

9 Sep 2010

Lots 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 [...]

News 8/9 – Staff Working Bees to Clean Up After Quake

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Staff| Statistics & Analysis| Tertiary Education| Universities

8 Sep 2010

Education performance information will be released by TEC at 11am today. ED have some embargoed figures so we’ll publish a post at 11am.

Quake Update

Aftershocks are slowing down building checkups (and requiring new checks), which in turn are delaying the cleanup. However, Canterbury Uni is having a (voluntary) staff working bee starting at noon today – although [...]

Review of Chch Quake Impact on Tertiary

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

6 Sep 2010

This post summarises all the info on the Christchurch quake received so far – another post was produced on Saturday and updated until now. Please use the contact form (Contact Us on the top menu) if you have any info.

The University of Canterbury is closed until Monday 13 September, when they open for Term 4. [...]

News 6/9 – Quake, Completions, Fees, Top Apprentices

In: Policy

6 Sep 2010

Coverage of the Christchurch quake’s impact on the tertiary education sector is at this post, which has been updated over the weekend

Quake Study Scientists from GNS Science, Victoria University of Wellington and Stanford University in the US have joined colleagues from Canterbury University to deploy about 40 portable earthquake instruments to record aftershocks over the next few [...]

News 31/8 – Blog Paper, SIT’s Lower $$ and Wgtn Buildings

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities

31 Aug 2010

A 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 19/8 – Free Flat, Telford’s Boozers and Cuts Trimmed

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19 Aug 2010

Free Flat My mate Darel Hall is giving away rent on a 5-bedroom flat for a year, worth $40,000. He’s not made of money, especially when it’s his round at the pub (he’s not that bad really), but he heads up Campus Living Villages’ operation down at the University of Canterbury and it’s a good [...]

News 16/8 – Whitireia’s Missing $$, MIT’s Baby Scholarship & Bacon

In: ITPs| Policy| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

16 Aug 2010

Sorry 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 13/8 – SIT Sets Record Straight on Hostel

In: ITPs| Staff| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities

13 Aug 2010

SIT’s Grand Hostel SIT CE Penny Simmonds has an opinion piece in The Southland Times about the Grand Hall of Residence, subject of recent student complaints. It is a comprehensive review of the complaints and forceful defence of SIT’s actions. It appears that some of the complaints were non-existent or trivial, while others have been [...]

News 4/8 – Cap Impact at Waikato, Performance Funding

In: Funding| ITPs| PTEs| Policy| Quality Assurance| Universities

4 Aug 2010

Hamilton’s the Place to Summer The University of Waikato has not made any cuts to its summer school due to funding caps, but that mainly seems to be because the summer school starts in January 2011. Waikato Uni has, however, closed a personal financial planning course, which was eligible for financial adviser registration purposes, due [...]

I’m in Rugby Heaven, so Thanks to the TEIs

In: ITPs| Universities

3 Aug 2010

I loved Saturday with rugby from 2pm till midnight. The ITM Cup isn’t as high a quality as the Super 14 but you don’t have to get up in the middle of the night to watch the games either!
So, since I was in rugby heaven at the weekend, I thought I’d thank those tertiary education [...]


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