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News 8 Mar – UC Reports to NZX, New ITO Research

In: Funding| Policy| TEO & ITO Annual Reports

8 Mar 2010

 Since we started trialling the new ED Insider service on Friday, you may now see an “(I)” at the end of a new item. That signifies more detailed analysis being available to ED Insider subscribers. There is no change in our approach to news here; we’re just doing extra analysis over at the other site [...]

News 2 Mar – Enrolments Up, Smoking Down

In: Policy

2 Mar 2010

Enrolments Unitec’s student newspaper reports that enrolment applications are up 35% on last year. West Coast midwifery enrolments are only being held back by a lack of pregnant women volunteers.
IT CPIT has implemented a new IT system that integrates information from many different applications, allowing much richer information on courses to be accessed. I hope [...]

News 22 Feb – Smart Drugs, Cadets and Academics with Guns

In: Quality Assurance| Research

22 Feb 2010

There were lots of news stories on Saturday, so check them out if you haven’t already. Comments on the stories below or any issues of the day are welcome.

Labour is continuing to argue with National over student loans. Grant Robertson’s post title on Red Alert over the weekend was that Steven Joyce was perpetuating myths on [...]

An End to Open Entry at Universities?

In: Policy| Quality Assurance

19 Feb 2010

David Choat is the third blogger to join ED Blog. He is profiled here.
University of Canterbury Vice-Chancellor Rod Carr has a challenging article in yesterday’s Press (not online, but UC sent us a copy, where he questions the continuation of New Zealand’s distinctive policy of open entry to universities for adult students.
I thought it might [...]

News 18 Feb – NZQA and TEC go to Parliament

In: Export Education| Funding| Parliament| Policy| Quality Assurance| Research| Tertiary Education

18 Feb 2010

The TEC doesn’t know how tertiary enrolments are looking, or so said Roy Sharp to the Education and Science Committee yesterday. Since TEC’s investment managers will have been contacting all of the bigger providers, I’m sure Roy does have some good indications of enrolments, but obviously he wasn’t asked the right questions (or they weren’t [...]

News 16 Feb – vet bonding, prefects and boats

In: Funding| ITOs

16 Feb 2010

Radio NZ reports on a veterinarian bonding scheme that has been expanded to include any practice treating production animals, rather than just six specific rural areas. While this may not be good for cats and parrots, it’s interesting to see such a clear split between support for business versus personal needs in an industry, especially [...]

News 15 Feb – sun loungers, coastal science and spanking

In: Government on Industry| Policy| Research

15 Feb 2010

Photo by Miho Tsumakura

UCOL’s Andy Halewood has had his sun lounger accepted in a Waiheke Island-based design exhibition (picture below). I think it will get more media coverage than last year’s sideboard exhibition.

 
 
Following up on the beach theme, Environment Bay of Plenty is funding a professorial chair in coastal science at the University of Waikato. Waikato [...]

Midwives – the strongest group in tertiary education?

In: Industry Groups| Quality Assurance

12 Feb 2010

The Midwifery Council has led an intriguing change process in recent times, culminating in several providers changing their degrees and a university dropping out of the market. What other industry group is wielding so much power?
As you might be aware, midwives are in shortage in many parts of the country, and the Midwifery Council (MC) [...]

News Beat 11 Feb – Maori King at Bay of Plenty Poly

In: ITOs| Tertiary Education

11 Feb 2010

The Maori King will today open a new building at Bay Of Plenty Polytechnics’s Windermere campus, to house the University of Waikato’s staff in Tauranga. The building is named after Maharaia Winiata, and the link provides detail about his achievements.
Following up on the note on the University of Otago’s disciplinary record yesterday, two Virginia students [...]

News Beat 10 Feb – pigs, drugs, the PM, fish oil, gardens and students gone bad

In: Research

10 Feb 2010

News of the day

I’ve always said that there aren’t enough pigs to go around and now a Lincoln student has not only agreed, but is trying to fix it, which is more than I’ve ever done.
Professor Stephen Duffull is the new Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Otago – his research focus is on individualising [...]


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