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News 12 Mar – Students Get a Car, a Mock Funeral and Criticism
In: Funding| ITOs| Industry Groups| Research| TEI Issues
12 Mar 2010Student Giveaway Waiariki Institute of Technology has given away a car as part of a promotion to encourage students to pay their fees early. Roberto Mura won the prize and is pictured with Waiariki CEO Pim Borren (on the right). I think this may be the biggest prize ever given out as part of a [...]
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- Tags: ITPs, NZUSA, Performance funding, Students, Universities, VSM
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!
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Since we started trialling the new ED Insider service on Friday, you may now see an “(I)” at the end of a new item. That signifies more detailed analysis being available to ED Insider subscribers. There is no change in our approach to news here; we’re just doing extra analysis over at the other site [...]
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- Tags: industry links, ITOs, Students, Universities
News 5 Mar – CRIs, VSM and ITO Governance
In: ITOs| Quality Assurance
5 Mar 2010Waynne Smith’s post on ITO issues yesterday raised some good issues and so have the comments – check it out if you haven’t already.
CRI Taskforce A big report was released yesterday reviewing Crown Research Institutes. Responses have come from the NZVCC and Science NZ. I was surprised to see the NZVCC so conciliatory, given that the report proposes [...]
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- Tags: CRIs, NZVCC, Open Entry, Students
Our feature post today is a response from an ITO CEO to my Monday post on industry training - check it out at 11am.
Enrolments Wairiki Institute of Technology is calling for caps to be lifted after high enrolments at the start of the year.
Orientation Otago has been quiet but Waikato students have been rowdy. Quoting from [...]
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- Tags: Ako Aotearoa, Students
News 2 Mar – Enrolments Up, Smoking Down
In: Policy
2 Mar 2010Enrolments Unitec’s student newspaper reports that enrolment applications are up 35% on last year. West Coast midwifery enrolments are only being held back by a lack of pregnant women volunteers.
IT CPIT has implemented a new IT system that integrates information from many different applications, allowing much richer information on courses to be accessed. I hope [...]
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- Tags: Students, Universities
News 1 Mar – No Change for TEC, says Sharp
1 Mar 2010I put up a post on Friday seeking feedback on how ED Blog could develop – check it out and offer your input.
ED Blog has a new links page - check out the Policy Progress site, started by my ED colleague David Choat. Policy Progress looks at long-term issues and challenges from a progressive perspective. David [...]
News 25 Feb – Ag ITO Keeps Numbers Up and VC Infallibility
In: Export Education| Policy| Research
25 Feb 2010Enrolments The Agriculture ITO managed to keep trainee numbers up during last year’s recession, with only a small dip – impressive given tight employment conditions. UCOL has had 500 (19%) more enrolment applications to date this year than last, with rejected students facing a long wait.
Orientation Review of SIT Orientation and regular annual Police checkpoint for old cars [...]
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- Tags: Students
News 24 Feb – Chch music school, science and ACE
24 Feb 2010Comment on news and other items of the day welcomed.
Critics of the new University of Canterbury national music school are speaking out at a resource consent hearing going on in Christchurch this week – see here and here (you could probably find 20 stories on The Press’ website). The proposed school will be based in the historic [...]
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- Tags: ACE, Innovation, Students
News 23 Feb – VSM, Cool Student Film and PPTA Attacks Tolley (again)
In: Export Education| Funding| Policy| Research
23 Feb 2010The English language school GEOS New Zealand has apparently been sold by its Japanese owners to one of its NZ managers. I’m working off rumour on this one, via the Let’s Japan blog (see the last comments). I referred to the closure of GEOS Australia closure in a post a few weeks back. Offshore agents have [...]
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- Tags: ACE, Students, VSM
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- News 12 Mar – Students Get a Car, a Mock Funeral and Criticism
- Bologna Process Stirs Blockades – Really
- All Must Be Above Average…
- News 11 Mar – Telford and Lincoln to Merge?
- Let’s cut law courses!
- News 10 Mar – Joyce’s big bang, great gardens and science prizes
- Joyce Makes Big Speech, Smaller Announcements
- News 9 Mar – University Entry, VSM & Biodiesel
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