Posts Tagged ‘Student Loans and Allowances

I had a lovely day yesterday facilitating a TROQ planning session in the sport, recreation and fitness area – was great to catch up with such a wide… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Loan Scheme Loses Money TV3 did a story at the weekend disclosing how the interest-free student loan scheme would fail if it was a business,… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management Uni Bailout? Canterbury is seeking another $150m from the government to deal with its quake woes. Kids Barred? Some kids may be pulled from school… Read Full Story.

There are new headings in today’s post, developed during consultation over the last couple of weeks. I won’t define or finalise the headings yet as each day will… Read Full Story.

ITPs to Manage Loans? RNZ covers an ITP proposal to manage student loans and allowances funds (and decide how they’re spent). Steven Joyce and the TEU thought it… Read Full Story.

High Fees Education at a Glance cherry-picking continues, with a series of stories in NZ having the 7th highest fees in the world (TV3, Yahoo, APNZ). Well, wouldn’t… Read Full Story.

King’s Education It’s a harrowing read, but the Coroner yesterday detailed the causes of death for 64 students, with 17 dying from the effect of fire (NZPA, RNZ)…. Read Full Story.

Performance Data TEC released data on tertiary education organisations educational performance yesterday, with Steven Joyce kicking it off. Various organisations put out releases to promote their version of… Read Full Story.

Explaining is Losing I love the PR/politics phrase that “explaining is losing” and it applies perfectly to this headline: “Varsities not rolling in cash – Maharey“. VSM In… Read Full Story.

Libya Good riddance to Gaddafi and let’s see how long it take to clean up the mess. I’d pick 5-10 years, but if you want to see what… 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 [...]