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The Metros’ Group of ITPs has taken a major positive step with the launch of their Innovating New Zealand website (see Metros’ media release here), which “will connect companies with a range of services, expert advice and staff training”. The site has been launched in cooperation with Business NZ and forms part of their new ManufacturingNZ [...]
In: Funding| ICT| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities
25 Jun 2010PEDA Affair Hits Tertiary You may have heard of the Pacific Economic Development Agency allocation in the Budget – $4.8m for a new body in a non-contestable allocation. It will cause National some problems for a while yet. Anyway, Auckland providers are starting to plan bids for the money, which will include “subcontracting with established [...]
In: OTEPs
24 Jun 2010Other Tertiary Education Providers (OTEPs) are the miscellaneous category in tertiary education – and they’re going to disappear soon as the TEC tidies up the categories. From my understanding, they’ll mostly be treated as PTEs or community education providers from next year, although some of the statutory bodies (Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre and the Institute [...]
This might kick off a series of posts on university entrance (although David Choat’s February post on open entry might be the first) as there are a lot of interesting aspects to it.
Many readers will think that NZQA sets university entrance standards (in consultation with universities of course) and they will be both right and [...]
This guest post is by Richard Hamilton-Williams, a partner in Meta-Office, which provides the Take 2 student management system. Richard has been involved in education-related information systems since 1992.
Remember about this time last year when TEC trotted out a set of performance indicator information which nobody could understand, which ignored a Statistics New Zealand standard [...]
New Science Ministry MORST and FRST are being merged – the new name will be the Ministry of Science and Innovation. I think they should have called it a Centre and then they could have had a cool CSI acronym…
SIT in India The Southland Times has requested info on SIT’s John Wright marketing trip to [...]
In: Export Education| ITOs| ITPs| Research| Universities
26 May 2010Wira Confirmed Steven Joyce yesterday confirmed the appointment of Sir Wira Gardiner to the TEC Chair role, for a 3 year term. The ODT did a short story on it.
Off to Space Susan Krumdieck, from the University of Canterbury is joining a team to work on the next generation of hypersonic vehicle, able to travel [...]
In: ITPs| Universities
25 May 2010New TEC Chair Sir Wira Gardiner will be the new TEC Chair, with Cabinet approving him last week. Trans Tasman predicted he would get the role a few weeks ago, so kudos to them. I think he’ll go quite well, although the TEC Board tends to be a lot less influential than the Minister, regardless of [...]
In: Funding| ITOs| Industry Input| Quality Assurance| TEI Issues| TEO & ITO Annual Reports
6 Apr 2010Tairawhiti and EIT Merger Tairawhiti Polytechnic and Eastern Institute of Technology may merge, largely as a result of financial pressures on the former. This was on the cards a few years ago but extra funds were put into Tairawhiti to help them get back on their feet. Those funds end in December, but there has [...]
In: Policy
17 Mar 2010Tony Ryall, State Services Minister, has just released data on the effects of capping the public service. From the end of 2008 to the end of 2009 staff dropped at the MOE by 46 (1.6%), at the TEC by 66 (18%) and at NZQA by 19 (4.3%). Overall public sector staff numbers dropped by 940 or 1.8%. The [...]
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