Posts Tagged ‘Universities NZ

Today’s Spotlight is on Pat Walsh, the Chair of Universities New Zealand (and VC of Victoria University of Wellington). Spotlight is a series of posts where ED Blog… Read Full Story.

Policy & Management New Ministers John Key announced new Ministers yesterday, with Steven Joyce keeping tertiary education (adding “skills and employment” too) and picking up economic development, plus… Read Full Story.

Welcome to some new tertiary education lobbyists (or sector leaders if you prefer). Unitec’s CE Rick Ede is the new Chair for the Metro Group of ITOs (whoops!… Read Full Story.

UE Changes NZQA has changed University Entrance (UE) requirements, sparking comment from Business NZ, the Tourism Industry Assn (dislike) and Universities NZ (support) and stories from RNZ, Dom… Read Full Story.

Uni Grad Survey Universities New Zealand has launched a new longitudinal survey to map graduates’ experiences in the final year and then 2, 5 and 10 years after… Read Full Story.

A late post today as I’ve been busy reviewing the Budget material for clients. Not too many surprises but PTEs will be happy to see the first boost… Read Full Story.

Budget NZUSA sets out their hopes for the Budget. Stuff talked to a Victoria student about his financial situation, while the Bay of Plenty Times spoke to the… Read Full Story.

Bye to Darren Hughes The last 24 hours of political news have been dominated by an incident involving Darren Hughes and an 18 year old at Hughes’ home… Read Full Story.

Quake Deaths The Press has a story on two homestay hosts (the parents of one of my wife’s friends) who discuss the loss of the Thai student, Haruthaya… Read Full Story.

Uni Staff Shortages A TVNZ piece ran last night on the Universities NZ academic staff workforce report –Eric Crampton also wrote a blog post on it, with some… Read Full Story.


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  • Stephen Day: I've just met the folks from NZUSA this morning, and I'm pretty sure we were/are on the same page wi [...]
  • 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 [...]