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Posts Tagged ‘Wintec’
News 30/8 – ITO Vision. Angry Council. Telford Expansion?
In: Export Education| Funding| ICT| ITOs| ITPs| Industry| Industry Input| PTEs| Policy| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Tertiary Education| Universities
30 Aug 2010Forestry Vision ITOs are covered so rarely in the media, but the NZ Herald had a good story today on FITEC and its work with other ITOs to set up the Primary Industries Trade Academy, but the story also has a wider focus on how industry skills need will be met. In a similar vein, [...]
News 26/8 – Fake Websites Gone. WITT in the Black.
In: ITOs| ITPs| PTEs| Staff| Students| TEO & ITO Annual Reports| Tertiary Education| Universities| Wananga
26 Aug 2010Fake Websites Gone The fake websites of 41 NZ tertiary providers that were put up in China have been taken down after complaints. I was chatting to a regular blog reader yesterday who had uncovered it, so it shows we’ve got a smart audience!
WITT Posts Surplus!!! WITT had a $1.2m surplus last year and even improve [...]
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 17/8 – Whitireia Again, Trades Academies & PM on NMIT
In: ITOs| ITPs| OTEPs| Students| Tertiary Education| Universities
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 10/8 – Nelson Issues and New CPIT CE
In: Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Students| Universities
10 Aug 2010Nelson Issues The Nelson Mail’s editorial suggests that the government should be asked for more money to avoid cutting NMIT’s creative writing and adventure tourism programmes. Unfortunately, it does not come up with many strong arguments for keeping the adventure tourism programme (other than it is unique, which it’s not – Tai Poutini Polytechnic offers [...]
News 9/8 – Chch Music School, Credit Cards & Fat Bellbirds
In: Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Policy| Students| Universities| Wananga
9 Aug 2010Chch Music The University of Canterbury is being urged to move its music school into a building built for The Press, which is now moving next door. It seems the developer came up with the idea, and was backed by Bob Parker, but the other mayoral candidate, Jim Anderton, went one further by suggesting that CPIT [...]
News 5/8 – English Language School Stats, Chamber Music & Policy Analysts
In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Policy| Statistics & Analysis| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities
5 Aug 2010Adventure Tourism High-profile adventure racer Nathan Fa’avae is urging NMIT not to cut an adventure tourism programme, but Tony Gray, the CE, points out that it has high costs and poor completion rates. It sounds like a good candidate for cutting to me.
Too Many Policy Analysts? David Farrar over at Kiwiblog weighed in on the [...]
I’m in Rugby Heaven, so Thanks to the TEIs
In: ITPs| Universities
3 Aug 2010I loved Saturday with rugby from 2pm till midnight. The ITM Cup isn’t as high a quality as the Super 14 but you don’t have to get up in the middle of the night to watch the games either!
So, since I was in rugby heaven at the weekend, I thought I’d thank those tertiary education [...]
News 3/8 – Susan Cullen at NorthTec. Adventure Tourism Cut at NMIT?
In: Export Education| Funding| ITPs| TEI Issues| Universities| Wananga
3 Aug 2010NorthTec Council NorthTec have appointed Susan Cullen as their last Council appointee (I jumped the gun on that when the second to last appointment was made last week). Susan developed the Mahi Ora, Lifeworks and KiwiOra programmes for Te Wananga o Aotearoa and the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. Her business relationships with TWOA were criticised [...]
News 2/8 – Summer School Cuts/Additions, Otago Entrance and P Lab Art
In: ITOs| ITPs| Industry Input| Students| Universities
2 Aug 2010School’s Out for Summer Well, it is for a quarter of courses at the University of Canterbury’s summer school, which have been cut. The VC is saying they’re mostly unpopular or double up on courses already run during the year. Lincoln is adding five courses, but they seem to be the only university without high enrolment [...]
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- Dave Guerin: I dunno Brad - the EXMSS guy seemed to be suggesting that it would apply to applicants, but I don't [...]
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- Dave Guerin: Cheers Darel - just created a new post with a shorter summary of everything. Great to hear that thin [...]
- Darel: Just had time to take a breath. No Halls students injured and no material damage at Uni Hall, Ilam [...]
- News 7/9 – Quake Photos and Info Plus Massey Website
- Review of Chch Quake Impact on Tertiary
- Thoughts on Performance Statistics
- News 6/9 – Quake, Completions, Fees, Top Apprentices
- Tertiary Damage of Chch Quake (TWOA, WelTec Update)
- WITT’s Challenge – Ask for More Money or Find Savings?
- News 3/9 – First Marketing on Completion Rates. New TEU Prez.
- Thoughts on WISA
- News 2/9 – Vic Debaters Win. Massey’s Cleaners and Entry Standards.
- NZITP Gets Moving
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