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Should There Be Other Tertiary Education Providers?

In: OTEPs

24 Jun 2010

Other 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 [...]

Who sets university entrance?

In: Quality Assurance| Universities

15 Jun 2010

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 [...]

TEC’s Annual Embarrassment

In: Funding| Statistics & Analysis

14 Jun 2010

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 [...]

News 2/6 – New Ministry Name Announced, TEC Chair Speaks Out

In: ITPs| Research| Students

2 Jun 2010

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 [...]

News 26/5 – Wira Gardiner Confirmed; Goff a Patron Saint?

In: Export Education| ITOs| ITPs| Research| Universities

26 May 2010

Wira 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 [...]

News 25/5 – New TEC Chair Leaked

In: ITPs| Universities

25 May 2010

New 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 [...]

News 6/4 – Tairawhiti merger, ITO Audits and Glenn Beck

In: Funding| ITOs| Industry Input| Quality Assurance| TEI Issues| TEO & ITO Annual Reports

6 Apr 2010

Tairawhiti 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 [...]

Fewer Staff at MOE, TEC, NZQA

In: Policy

17 Mar 2010

Tony 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 [...]

ITOs Hit Rough Patch

In: ITOs| Policy

1 Mar 2010

Industry training organisations (ITOs) and Modern Apprenticeships are getting some negative press, which is a byproduct of them moving from a sheltered policy environment to a more accountable one. ITOs do good things, but they have been helped and hampered by uncritical analysis of their performance, and by flattering comparison of them to the missteps [...]

News 18 Feb – NZQA and TEC go to Parliament

In: Export Education| Funding| ITPs| Parliament| Policy| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education| Universities

18 Feb 2010

The TEC doesn’t know how tertiary enrolments are looking, or so said Roy Sharp to the Education and Science Committee yesterday. Since TEC’s investment managers will have been contacting all of the bigger providers, I’m sure Roy does have some good indications of enrolments, but obviously he wasn’t asked the right questions (or they weren’t [...]


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