Posts Tagged ‘TEU

There’s a typeface design exhibition at Massey (Fairfax) and there’s a really cute typeface done by an 8 year old (photos at both links); Policy, Management & People Saving Paper BOPP is saving paper, with Dean Ellery overseeing the process. New Dean Here’s a profile of new medical/health dean at Auckland, Prof John Fraser. Extras: Waikato is involved… Read Full Story.

Policy, Management & People Massey Changes Massey’s College of Education is being restructured and 25 job losses may be part of it as it aligns to a target staff:student ration (Stuff). Supreme Court Massey’s cleaners have been granted leave to take their dispute to the Supreme Court. Happy 80th Auckland’s Ranginui Walker celebrated his 80th on RadioLIVE. Canterbury… Read Full Story.

Aoraki’s Iain Bamber made a speedy exit from MasterChef last night (about 15:30 at that link) – good on him for giving it a go. Policy, Management & People Christchurch Money David Robinson, a guest of the TEU, called for more money for Christchurch tertiary education providers. Hypocrite? Social Development Minister was accused of being a hypocrite for… Read Full Story.

I love Heston Blumenthal’s cooking and after Bay of Plenty Poly tutor Lee Pearce spent 4 weeks at Heston’s Fat Duck restaurant, the top BOPP student this year will get a work placement there. I wonder if anyone can top that placement. Policy, Management & People Loan Payback A student loan repayment incentive has resulted in $300m being… Read Full Story.

Nice to see some Q&A with Prof Sir Paul Callaghan, but sad to see the answers are written from his hospital bed. Policy, Management & People $57m at Massey $57m will be spent on facilities at Massey as they bring their Hokowhitu students and staff (teacher ed) onto the main Palmie campus. They will then sell the other… Read Full Story.

The Christchurch quake has had an enormous impact on many in the tertiary education sector, especially the friends and family of the 8 staff and 64 students King’s Education who died. It has also affected all those working and studying in tertiary education in Christchurch, as they struggle with changing enrolment numbers, damaged facilities and personal impacts. I… Read Full Story.

The Crafar farms sale was blocked by the High Court yesterday. Readers may not be aware that the Overseas Investment Office rated the two jobs from the proposed dairy farm training facility as the most certain to eventuate from the sale (see first para, p.14 here) and the High Court rated the training facility as one of the… Read Full Story.

The OECD has a global video competition for 18-25 year olds that closes on 31 March. Entrants must make a 3 minute (max) video on the big issues in education and skills. Your students might be up for it and if they win they get a free trip to Paris (to an OECD Forum, but I’m sure they’ll… Read Full Story.

Policy, Management & People Wings Clipped The flight training school that was the focus of a bad IEAA report has closed down. The Wings Flight Training Academy owner said the students were out to get him: “RP Singh is like an innocent-looking rabbit in the forest when you’ve got 10 greyhounds trying to kill him”. I challenge people… Read Full Story.

Policy, Management & People BIMs Treasury’s BIM sparked media releases from NZUSA’s Pete Hodkinson (opposing interest on student loans) and the TEU’s Sandra Grey (opposing shifting funding to younger students and research money to help the private sector). It is not surprising that NZUSA wasn’t too worried about shifting funding towards younger students as most student reps are…younger… Read Full Story.


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