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News 14/7 – Top Designers, Leeks and Penguins

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14 Jul 2010

James Dyson Awards The three finalists in the NZ James Dyson Awards have been announced. You can view Tri-Cast, Wanderest and Lucid Wakeboard Binding here. The winner will be announced on 22 July and will go on to the international competition.
Elam’s 60th The University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts is celebrating the 60th anniversary [...]

News 13/7 – Robots in the Vines, Loan Problems and FRST $$

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13 Jul 2010

UCOL’s Nursing Mannequin UCOL has just bought Anne, a training mannequin that can even scream. Cool. Anne can also become Andy with some quick rearrangement.
Robotics The University of Canterbury is introducing robotics to horticulture to prune vines. It’s a cool idea, especially if it looks like the photo.
Loan Problems? It seems that some students might [...]

News 8/7 – Glass School Closure? Metros’ Big New Idea.

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ICT| ITPs| Industry Input| PTEs| Students| Universities

8 Jul 2010

Metros’ New Idea The Metro ITP are formally launching their Innovation New Zealand network – I’ll write a full post on it later this morning.
Food Miles University of Otago researchers have found that, while food miles are of concern to the UK public, the belief does not translate into action in the supermarket aisles.
Wanganui Glass [...]

Why Are Allowances Rising So Fast?

In: Funding

7 Jul 2010

Last week the Ministry of Education released a paper on student allowances in 2009, showing increases of 26% in recipients and 30% in payments over 2008. That resulted in an interview of Steven Joyce, Tertiary Education Minister, on Radio NZ – he was a bit surprised by the extent of increase in expenditure. NZUSA got in [...]

News 1/7 – Allowances Boom, ITP MECA and Skill Shortages

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1 Jul 2010

Allowances Boom in 09 Steven Joyce was on Morning Report yesterday talking about student allowances increases in 2009, while NZUSA put out a release about it too. Allowances eligibility was loosened, while enrolments went up.
Tainui College The -Tainui College for Research and Development has its first academic director. The buildings were built ten years ago but [...]

Guest Post: Tertiary funding policy at an impasse

In: Funding

30 Jun 2010

This guest post is by Roger Kerr, Executive Director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable. It originally ran in the ODT.
A fundamental law of economics is that you can control the price of something or the quantity supplied, but not both.
We saw that law in operation in the old Soviet system, with rationing and queues, and [...]

News 21/6 – University Access, All Blacks and Gondolas

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21 Jun 2010

ODT Feature on University Access The ODT has a story and a long feature on university entrance issues quoting Steven Joyce, Pete Hodgson, a BNZ economist and me (rambling on a bit). The articles cover a lot of ground and show the increasing interest in access issues. One argument that I made didn’t seem to come [...]

News 8/6 – MOE the Worst(?), Uni Access Chaos & Congrats to Stuart

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8 Jun 2010

MOE at Bottom Trans-Tasman, which usually produces a weekly politics and policy newsletter, has produced a ranking of all government departments and has ranked the Ministry of Education near the bottom.
Access Chaos Palmerston North schools are warning of chaos and confusion due to changes to entry rules for university. Meanwhile, the University of Otago will [...]

An idea for student loans

In: Funding

20 May 2010

Access to federal student loans by for-profit institutions is an ongoing issue of debate in the US. Their default rates tend to be higher because (a) fees, and therefore loans, are much higher without state/federal subsidies (b) the target market is older and has lower completion rates than your average high school graduate (c) some of [...]

News 14/5 – Reaction to VUW Caps plus Lincoln-Telford Merger

In: Funding| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Universities

14 May 2010

Our fifth sector group comments on the upcoming budget today at 9.30am - it’s NZUSA, covering the student viewpoint.

Vic’s Enrolment Shutdown Unsurprisingly, yesterday’s media was dominated by VUW’s decision to stop taking enrolments for the rest of 2010.

NZUSA said that the doors of opportunity had been slammed shut twice on students, at VUW and Otago (which [...]


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