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10 Dec 2010

Tai Wananga Education Minister Anne Tolley and Associate Education Minister Dr Pita Sharples have announced the establishment of a new secondary school over two sites in Hamilton and Palmerston North. Tai Wānanga, a Year 9 to 13 secondary school developed in conjunction with Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, will deliver a tikanga-based education programme taught in English, but within… Read Full Story.

News 9/12 – Critic and Conscience, HRC $$, Police Patron

9 Dec 2010

Critic and Conscience Victoria is hosting a conference about the role of those who act as the critics and conscience of society. Merger Tairawhiti Polytechnic CE Judy Campbell is happy to have done herself out of a job by promoting a merger with EIT – six senior manager roles will go. Health $$ The Health Research Council has awarded $7.29m in funding, most… Read Full Story.

News 6/12 – Job Cuts, Housing Network, Labour on ITPs

6 Dec 2010

Global Hair The Hairdressing ITO has awarded its first international certificates, after years of negotiation with overseas bodies. Job Cuts Otago Uni’s Foundation Studies Ltd might have lost more than six jobs this year as its EFTS are cut – this seems to be common and I don’t know whether TEC or unis are cutting the EFTS (or both). Seems silly in the absence of… Read Full Story.

News 2/12 – Merger OK. Student Death. VSM. Pavlova

2 Dec 2010

EIT and Tairawhiti To Merge Steven Joyce made the announcement yesterday (NZPA story). That isn’t surprising but it only happened with another $7.5m from the government. Mai Chen @ Auckland Mai Chen is the new Adjunct Professor in Commercial and Public Law at the University of Auckland – it’s a part-time role. Student Death An Auckland Youth Training student has died after leaping into a… Read Full Story.

News 29/11 – PM’s Science Award. AgExcel. Removalist Quals.

29 Nov 2010

PM’s Science Award I’ll lead with a slew of stories about the PM’s Science Award winners (also NZPA). the top one of $500K went to a team at Victoria Uni led by Prof Sir Paul Callaghan (who has a few more years on the clock after successful cancer treatment), which is working on using magnetic resonance for innovation. A Bluff school… Read Full Story.

News 20/10 – EIT-Tairawhiti Merger, Japanese Grad Honoured, Lecturers Sent Home

20 Oct 2010

EIT-Tairawhiti Merger Steven Joyce officially called for comment on the proposed merger of Tairawhiti Polytechnic and EIT – I covered an EIT release about it last week. I think it’s a reasonable proposal, but not necessarily the best use of public money. Putting aside that, I’d like to congratulate Judy Campbell, Tairawhiti CE, for her work to cement… Read Full Story.

News 14/10 – Painting a Quad, EIT-Tairawhiti Merger

14 Oct 2010

Quad Art Victoria University students have been splashing the Quad at the main Kelburn campus with paint as a release from last week of lectures stress and because the Quad will be demolished in November. A new Campus Hub will be built and the existing Quad will be dug down two levels to enable a larger platform for… Read Full Story.

News 1/10 – Inmate and Police Education. Alumni All Blacks.

1 Oct 2010

Housing Massey’s latest housing affordability survey is out (Herald story). Too Big for Their Boots? The University of Auckland has named an Alumni All Blacks team, which may just be a bit too much for me. VSM Massey Extramural students’ assn doesn’t like VSM, while Lincoln University and its students’ assn jointly condemned the VSM Bill yesterday Inmate… Read Full Story.

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Tags: AUT, Bills & Acts, EIT, English Language Schools, Lincoln University, Massey University, NorthTec, SIT, Tairawhiti Polytechnic, TEU, UCOL, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, VSM

Course Completions – TEI Ratings (Waiariki, Raukawa and 16 PTEs at Rock Bottom)

8 Sep 2010

TEC is releasing education performance data today and I’ve put together a table below of course completions for TEIs. The measurement is: all EFTS completed a course/all EFTS enrolled in a course, but only covering courses expected to end in the relevant year. The universities fill the top 7 places in the table, with Massey in 10th (probably… Read Full Story.

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

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 corporate gift this… Read Full Story.

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