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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
In: ITOs| Tertiary Education
11 Feb 2010The 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 [...]
In: Research
10 Feb 2010News 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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