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Review of Chch Quake Impact on Tertiary

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

6 Sep 2010

This post summarises all the info on the Christchurch quake received so far – another post was produced on Saturday and updated until now. Please use the contact form (Contact Us on the top menu) if you have any info.

The University of Canterbury is closed until Monday 13 September, when they open for Term 4. [...]

Tertiary Damage of Chch Quake (TWOA, WelTec Update)

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

4 Sep 2010

This post on damage in the tertiary education sector from the Christchurch earthquake will be updated as info becomes available. The timing of the quake and a lot of luck means that there are no deaths and few serious injuries so far, but the cleanup bill looks enormous. For general info, go to Stuff or [...]

News 27/8 – Student Entry, Performance and Loans

In: Funding| ITPs| Policy| Staff| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

27 Aug 2010

Focus on the Numbers Te Wananga O Aotearoa is focusing more on the numbers, in preparation for performance funding, according to the TEU. I’m going to write more about this later today.
Otago Poly Entry Great story this morning in the ODT about Otago Poly’s new approach to entry – I will write more about that [...]

News 19/8 – Free Flat, Telford’s Boozers and Cuts Trimmed

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Staff| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

19 Aug 2010

Free Flat My mate Darel Hall is giving away rent on a 5-bedroom flat for a year, worth $40,000. He’s not made of money, especially when it’s his round at the pub (he’s not that bad really), but he heads up Campus Living Villages’ operation down at the University of Canterbury and it’s a good [...]

News 16/8 – Whitireia’s Missing $$, MIT’s Baby Scholarship & Bacon

In: ITPs| Policy| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga

16 Aug 2010

Sorry to those that got a post by email with no story at the weekend – I tried to change the font but mucked up the code. Hopefully it should be fixed now. If not, I’ll call in the experts.

MIT’s Great Scholarship Story A 19 year old-man turned up to MIT with a 19 year [...]

News 9/8 – Chch Music School, Credit Cards & Fat Bellbirds

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Policy| Students| Universities| Wananga

9 Aug 2010

Chch Music The University of Canterbury is being urged to move its music school into a building built for The Press, which is now moving next door. It seems the developer came up with the idea, and was backed by Bob Parker, but the other mayoral candidate, Jim Anderton, went one further by suggesting that CPIT [...]

News 3/8 – Susan Cullen at NorthTec. Adventure Tourism Cut at NMIT?

In: Export Education| Funding| ITPs| TEI Issues| Universities| Wananga

3 Aug 2010

NorthTec Council NorthTec have appointed Susan Cullen as their last Council appointee (I jumped the gun on that when the second to last appointment was made last week). Susan developed the Mahi Ora, Lifeworks and KiwiOra programmes for Te Wananga o Aotearoa and the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. Her business relationships with TWOA were criticised [...]

News 29/7 – Intl Students Up, Student Loans & Food Safety

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| TEO Sector Groups| Universities| Wananga

29 Jul 2010

International Students Up International students were up 7%in the first four months of 2010, following a 6% rise in FY 2009. PTEs were up 8%, ITPs up 15% and unis up 4%. SIT is showing good growth this year, going from 220 international EFTS in 2009 to 259 so far this year, and is on [...]

News 22/7 – WITT Fees Up

In: Export Education| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Students| Universities

22 Jul 2010

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 first fees increase for next year that I’ve seen reported.
Capital Times A columnist in Wellington’s Capital Times likes Steven Joyce’s graduate outcomes idea, mainly for the focus [...]

Best Tertiary Websites – Wananga

In: ICT| Wananga

21 Jun 2010

This is my third post on the best websites in the tertiary education sector – full details are here.  I’ll assume that all websites provide an electronic brochure to what courses are on offer, so I’ll be looking for:

effective use of Facebook, Twitter or other social media (and if I can’t find links to them on a [...]


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