Posts Tagged ‘Tuition Fees

If you have a couple of minutes, I’d appreciate it if you could fill in a brief anonymous survey I’m doing on ED Blog. Over 50 people filled… Read Full Story.

Coastal Species Read this article if you’re keen on finding out when our penguins and seals came from and how long ago (hint: not as long as you… Read Full Story.

By the way, I have a new contract that you should be aware of. I’m providing behind the scenes support to the Industry Training Federation for a day… Read Full Story.

High Fees Education at a Glance cherry-picking continues, with a series of stories in NZ having the 7th highest fees in the world (TV3, Yahoo, APNZ). Well, wouldn’t… Read Full Story.

Guest post by Tim Cullinane, Chair of Independent Tertiary Institutions (ITI) In New Zealand, only Government Ministers and enthusiastic backbenchers ever really use the official title of the Budget which,… Read Full Story.

Thank to Independent Tertiary Institutions for their hospitality last night at their end of year function at the Beehive. Good to catch up with old friends and hear the Minister, Steven Joyce, talk of… Read Full Story.

EIT-Tairawhiti Merger Steven Joyce officially called for comment on the proposed merger of Tairawhiti Polytechnic and EIT – I covered an EIT release about it last week. I… Read Full Story.

VSM The bill that could create voluntary student membership was reported back from the select committee on Friday afternoon and there was an orgy of media releases, and… Read Full Story.

WITT Fees up WITT has increased its fees by 4% across the board, but has not increased its $40 student services fee (or other fees). This is the… Read Full Story.

Student Loans and Fees There have been many stories following up on Steven Joyce’s announcements on TV on Sunday about student loans and fees (see yesterday’s news post for details)… Read Full Story.


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  • Richard Hamilton-Williams: Tinkering with funding on the basis of the age of students doesn’t have a very successful track re [...]
  • dean: I loved that you started to question my own motives. BTW. [...]
  • dean: Well, err, um i was actually trying to point out how potentially futile ascribing motive to somethin [...]
  • Dave Guerin: Dean, an organisation can argue as it wishes. Given the collection of stories and releases today, NZ [...]
  • dean: Sigh, really ... You question (am I right in saying negatively?) an organisation's motives on som [...]