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News 17/6 – HSI Awards, Hospitality Training & Massey’s Dubious Mktg

In: Export Education| ITOs| Industry Input| Students| TEI Issues| Universities

17 Jun 2010

HSI Awards HSI’s annual awards were held on Monday night, NorthTec won Excellence in Training – Qualification Pathways for the third year running while one of their staff. Sue Bartlett, was named Workplace Assessor of the Year.
Hospitality Training There’s a great article here about the tradeoffs between different levels of hospitality training and the needs [...]

ITP Staff Member Gets on a Council

In: Staff| TEI Issues

31 May 2010

With the sweeping reforms to membership of ITP Councils, most of the staff, student and CEO representatives are no longer on Councils. NMIT has a student rep, while UCOL has the CE on Council, but I hadn’t seen any staff reps on Council around the country until now.
Well, NorthTec has appointed Gwen Edge to its [...]

News 28/4 – Councils, Buildings and Loans

In: Funding| Students| Tertiary Education

28 Apr 2010

Sponsorship The BNZ is sponsoring NMIT’s new Arts and Media Building. Meanwhile, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic is sponsoring the BOP secondary school rugby competition.
Student Loans Student newspaper Salient has some reaction to Steven Joyce’s proposed student loan changes.
TWOA The NZ Herald has a story on the 25th anniversary of a marae that helped to inspire [...]

News 23/4 – Foreign Students Up, NZUSA Losing a Member?

In: Export Education| Students| Universities

23 Apr 2010

Foreign Students Up Steven Joyce, Minister for Tertiary Education, released 2009 foreign student numbers (up 6%) and earnings (up 10% or $61m) yesterday. Education NZ welcomed it and added a multiplier to take it to $200m growth. At the same time as announcing the student figures, Steven Joyce said that universities should look to foreign [...]

News 22/4 – Last ITP Council Appointees and WITT is Free(ish)

In: Export Education| Funding| Industry| TEI Issues

22 Apr 2010

Minister Appoints Steven Joyce, Minister for Tertiary Education, appointed Suzanne Snively to the Councils of WelTec and Whitireia Community Polytechnic – the last two vacant Ministerial appointments after 78 positions were appointed last week. Suzanne is the current deputy chair at Whitireia, a PWC partner and a very capable person – I’m happy she’s been [...]

News 19/4 – Steven Joyce Drops Big Budget Hints

In: Funding| ITOs| Research| Staff| Students

19 Apr 2010

Over-Delivery Radio NZ ran a story on Friday about over-delivery by universities and ITPs last year. I received similar information last Thursday for a wider group of providers and will be running posts at 11am from Mon-Fri this week on them.
Steven Joyce 1 Steven Joyce was on TVNZ’s Q+A programme (transcript here) yesterday covering:

performance-funding (variable targets [...]

News 16/4 – 9 on ITP Councils, Plus Orangutans and Barbie

In: TEI Issues

16 Apr 2010

ITP Councils

Several polytechnics commented on their Council members yesterday, covering the Ministerial appointees and/or the local appointees – here are releases from UCOL, Wintec, WelTec and Unitec.
Labour’s Maryan Street has put out a well-argued release about the challenges the new Councils will face to represent their communities.
The Greens’ Gareth Hughes is concerned that there are [...]

News 15/4 – ITP Councils, Smoking and Uni Games

In: ITOs| Policy| Staff| Students| TEI Issues

15 Apr 2010

 

ITP Councils The ODT reports that 3/4 Ministerial appointees to the Otago Polytechnic Council have changed, with the current Chair and Deputy Chair gone. They also have comment about the the Telford Rural Polytechnic Council appointments.  Aoraki Polytechnic’s new Chair is ready to go. The TEU is concerned about the lack of staff appointees (although I’d be surprised [...]

New ITP Councils Announced (Not a Joke This Time!)

In: ITPs| TEI Issues

14 Apr 2010

Steven Joyce, Minister for Tertiary Education, announced his appointments to ITP Councils today.
Coincidentally, this morning we formally launched our paid ED Insider service – strategic information for tertiary education professionals. We have detailed analysis of the new ITP Council appointments over at ED Insider and 14 day free trials are available in April, so sign up now and [...]

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 [...]


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