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News 12 Mar – Students Get a Car, a Mock Funeral and Criticism
In: Funding| ITOs| Industry Groups| Research| TEI Issues
12 Mar 2010Student Giveaway Waiariki Institute of Technology has given away a car as part of a promotion to encourage students to pay their fees early. Roberto Mura won the prize and is pictured with Waiariki CEO Pim Borren (on the right). I think this may be the biggest prize ever given out as part of a [...]
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- Tags: ITPs, NZUSA, Performance funding, Students, Universities, VSM
News 11 Mar – Telford and Lincoln to Merge?
11 Mar 2010Lincoln University and Telford Rural Polytechnic are considering merging in 2011, according to an ODT story today. Telford spokespeople have referred to cuts in funding for short courses as a driver, along with the potential for lower running costs. The two institutions both operate in the primary sector but run complementary courses.
Tertiary reforms
Steven Joyce and [...]
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 [...]
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- Tags: industry links, ITOs, Students, Universities
News 2 Mar – Enrolments Up, Smoking Down
In: Policy
2 Mar 2010Enrolments 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 [...]
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- Tags: Students, Universities
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 2010David 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 2010The 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 [...]
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- Tags: ITPs, NZQA, TEC, Universities
News 16 Feb – vet bonding, prefects and boats
16 Feb 2010Radio 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 [...]
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- Tags: industry links, ITOs, ITPs, schools, Universities
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 [...]
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- Tags: ITPs, Students, Universities
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) [...]
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- Tags: ITPs, Universities
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- News 11 Mar – Telford and Lincoln to Merge?
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