In: Facilities & Equipment|ITPs|Policy|Politics|Students|TEO Sector Groups|Tertiary Education|Universities
20 Oct 2011Demolition Demolition of two buildings will start next week at Canterbury. Unfair IRB? AUT’s Rawiri Taonui had a NZ Herald op-ed arguing that the IRB is biased against… Read Full Story.
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15 Sep 2011Students Protest! The students at Victoria had a noisy protest yesterday, although seemingly helped along a bit by Workers Party types. Seems about 300 turned up to hear… Read Full Story.
Guest post by Tim Cullinane, Chair of Independent Tertiary Institutions (ITI) In New Zealand, only Government Ministers and enthusiastic backbenchers ever really use the official title of the Budget which,… Read Full Story.
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23 May 2011Now that the rush of the Budget is over, here’s my marking sheet. Since I spent about a day dealing with all of the Budget numbers for ED… Read Full Story.
A guest post by Tim Cullinane, Chairperson of Independent Tertiary Institutions (ITI) Even before the events of 22 February 2011, Finance Minister Bill English was signalling that it… Read Full Story.
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16 Feb 2011Dopey Labour Idea Labour MP Raymond Huo is concerned about “hit and run” PTEs in the international student market. Whatever they are, there are problems in the PTE sector, as the NZ… Read Full Story.
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21 Jul 2010Education NZ Not Charitable That’s not my judgment, but the Charities Commission, which has not awarded them charitable status. It will make life a bit more inconvenient (and… Read Full Story.