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News 9/9 – Sector Stats and Quake – What More News Do You Need?
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9 Sep 2010Lots of news today, so a late delivery of this. Monday had our biggest site visits and page views ever, with the earthquake, but yesterday surpassed visits by 1 and page views by 39%, with quake and performance stats coverage.
Educational Performance Information
TEC released education performance information yesterday – there was also a TEC media release and [...]
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Thoughts on WISA
2 Sep 2010It’s almost 3 weeks since the story about the fraud at Whitireia Independent Students’ Association. I wrote a long post on it on 14 August and covered various news stories on 16, 17, 18 and 24 August and 1 September. Given that time lag, I thought I’d put a few thoughts together.
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News 1/9 – Labour Defends ITPs. Drug Prices.
In: Export Education| Funding| Government on Industry| ITPs| Industry| Policy| Tertiary Education| Universities
1 Sep 2010Labour Defends ITPs Labour’s Grant Robertson is defending ITPs from funding cuts and roll caps. He noted that the ”Chief Executive of SIT has said the latest cut was ‘something of a surprise’”. Ha ha, if Penny Simmonds was ever surprised at TEC wanting to cut SIT’s funding, it would amaze me!! Grant is also in [...]
News 24/8 – $$ at ITPs (Win, Lose and Up In The Air)
In: Funding| ITPs| Policy| Research| Staff| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
24 Aug 2010Wintec Gains $$ Wintec has kept 200 extra places it received as a one-off for 2010 in its draft investment plan for 2011 on, leading CE Mark Flowers to spin that it was a good result for Wintec as the general trend was for institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) to have their funding reduced. [...]
News 18/8 – Trades Academies, Whitireia and Problems for Refugees
In: ITPs| Policy| Students| Universities
18 Aug 2010Trades Academies There has been reaction to the announcement of the funded Trades Academies. They’re a bit sad in Gisborne, but 100 students will benefit in Wellington from WelTec’s academy. The Press has a story on Christchurch’s trade academy.
Whitireia Students’ Missing $$ The Young Nats have jumped on the Whitireia bandwagon while Kiwiblog continues to argue [...]
News 17/8 – Whitireia Again, Trades Academies & PM on NMIT
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17 Aug 2010Whitireia $$ If you want to know more about the money missing from Whitireia Independent Stduents’ Assn, the Newswire site managed by the polytechnic’s journalism students is a good start. They had stories yesterday on police comment, aggrieved students, an exec member’s reaction, an interview with Poly CE Don Campbell, a summary of other associations’ [...]
News 16/8 – Whitireia’s Missing $$, MIT’s Baby Scholarship & Bacon
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16 Aug 2010Sorry 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 [...]
Students’ Assn Money Disappears
In: Students
14 Aug 2010The Dominion Post has a story this morning on money disappearing from Whitireia Community Polytechnic’s students’ assn. While they suggest that $750K is involved, the figures involved seem to add to $75K, and the 07 accounts (latest available online) show a $200K annual turnover and $200K in assets, so $750K disappearing seems unlikely. Unreceipted expenses, [...]
News 23/7 – Massey Shuts Door! SIT Shuts Gate! Talkback Radio Gets New Topic!
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23 Jul 2010Massey Shuts Door Grant Robertson (Labour) wrote last night that Massey had closed the door on summer school enrolments, because they had reached their funding cap. The Big News blog pointed out that classes that are not full (and many won’t be, given the previous closing date was November) will not be run. Massey’s announcement is here. The Dom [...]
News 9/7 – Is Massey Going to Get Dirty?
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9 Jul 2010Massey Dirty, For Sale? The Service and Food Workers’ Union is protesting a proposed major cut in cleaning at Massey University. Hours will be cut generally and there will be a term-time cleaning focus, with only 31 weeks of the year guaranteed for work (presumably some staff will clean year round). Massey is also selling [...]
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- Mary: Actually the educationcounts data suggests (though it is not detailed enough to be definitive) that [...]
- Stephen Day: Yes, but we didn't say 'any' low performance is simply a matter of the students targeted. What we sa [...]
- Dave Guerin: Petrak, you need to back up that statement. The SDR Manual says that the Qualification Completion Fi [...]
- Dave Guerin: The TEU media release opens as follows: "Predictably, tertiary institutions with higher numbers o [...]
- Stephen Day: "The TEU takes the view that any low performance is simply a matter of the students targ [...]
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