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27 Jan 2012I 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.
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24 Jan 2012Policy, Management & People Timetabling Staff are upset at Canterbury’s new timetable but apparently it’s set to meet student needs. There are some interesting issues raised in the… Read Full Story.
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10 Nov 2011Te Wananga o Raukawa had some very low course completions results in 2009 and 2010 (42% and 43% respectively). That was below the threshold of 55% where private… Read Full Story.
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8 Sep 2011VSM The VSM Bill passed its committee stage Earlier in the day students called for a compromise, but they had already lodged a request for an urgent Waitangi… Read Full Story.
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30 Aug 2011King’s Education The sister of Gillian Sayers, a King’s Education teacher who died in the quake, had a statement read out to the inquest yesterday. She questioned what… Read Full Story.
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5 Aug 2011AUT Arrest The Police arrested AUT’s former employee Jonathan Kilpatrick and he appeared in the District Court on false accounting and related charges. It seems that he had… Read Full Story.
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21 Jul 2011Apprentice Boost? Labour’s Clare Curran has blogged about a new procurement policy that seems to include skills. If you read the policy, Labour proposes to “require companies providing… Read Full Story.
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30 May 2011Gap Filling I’ve liked the idea of CPIT architecture filling in vacant site since I heard of it and they did it last week, with one group creating… Read Full Story.
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18 Mar 2011Awanuiarangi Protests Wow – Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi’s $16m redevelopment has sparked a protest march. The Wananga has big plans for a small town and the neighbours… Read Full Story.