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New Ministerial Roles Dec 2011
John Key has announced New Ministerial roles have been announced and Steven Joyce picks up almost everything relevant to tertiary education: Economic Development,...
Māori Party – National Coalition Agreement
The Māori and National Parties have reached a coalition agreement. The key tertiary education change is that vocational education training places are to be allocated...
Act & United Future Coalition Agreements with National
The National party has today released coalition deals with the United Future and Act parties. There are no major tertiary education initiatives in either of the...
Newsletter 1/12 – Who will be the Minister(s)?
Take on the Week The election was obviously the largest event of the last week, but it will lead to minimal changes for tertiary education. As we reported in reviews...
ACT Tertiary Education Policies
ACT has a good chance of being back in Parliament with 2-3 MPs, but has a limited focus on tertiary education in its policies, and its most significant policy, market...
Business NZ Election Survey
Business NZ and Deloitte have released a document covering businesses’ views on education (and other issues), matched with political party policies. Businesses...
Parliament Report 12/10 (India Inquiry Released)
This Parliament Report covers the period from 24 September to 11 October. The House rose during the period and these reports will accordingly be briefer until after...
Parliament Report 5/9
This Parliament Report covers the period from 15 August to 2 September. We held off on doing this report until Hansard was available for the two education-related...
VSM Should Go Ahead in 2012
Yesterday we wrote to ED Insider clients that it was exceedingly unlikely that the VSM Bill would be debated that day. We were wrong (along with many others) and...
Parliament Report 12/7
This Parliament Report covers the fortnight ending 8 July 2011. The likelihood of the VSM Bill not passing before the election, unless it is taken up by the government,...
Parliament Report 22/6
This Parliament Report covers the period ending 18 June 2011. Some questioning by Labour exposed that a big Budget proposal for high-value manufacturing research...
Parliament Report 7/6
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 3 June 2011. It was another slow non-sitting week, with topics including student loans for over 55s, a student loan...
Parliament Report 8/3
This Parliament Report covers the two weeks ending 4 March 2011. It was a quiet period, with Parliament suspending activities after the Christchurch quake. Relevance:...
Parliament Report 14/2
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 11 February. The most interesting thing is that ACT is asking questions about church-related courses. Relevance: Medium...
VSM Bill Select Ctte Report-Back
The Education and Science Committee of Parliament reported back to the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill to the House last Friday. If passed, all...
Parliament Report 30/8
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 27 August. It was a quiet week, with questions in preparation for a Mana by-election, and nursing changes. Relevance:...
Parliament Report 9/4
Nothing major happened this week at Parliament relating to tertiary education. We have reviewed science-related Written Questions back to the start of 2010 in this...
Parliament Report 25 Mar
This is the first weekly review of activity in Parliament. In this issue we have gone back to the start of 2010 for Written Questions, but just covered this month...
- University of Auckland – 2011 AR
- PBRF Changes Confirmed by TEC
- NZ 14th in Ranking of Higher Education Systems
- Newsletter 14/5 (Chch Recovery, MSI RFPs )
- Parliament Report 14/5
- Christchurch Draft Education Renewal Programme
- Labour Market Returns to Industry Training
- Parliament Report 7/5
- NZ University Academics’ Salaries – International Comparison
- Newsletter 4/5 (Student Loans/Allowances)
- Dave Guerin: Thanks for the feedback Pamela.It is good to see so much focus on youth transition issues from all...
- Pamela Jefferies: I am surprised that the same government that introduces these policies for youth axed the training...
- Dave Guerin: I don’t know if you need a Logan Edgar everywhere in normal times (his flair comes with quite a...
- Stephen Day: Your comments about OUSA are interesting. I’ve often thought the problem with modern students...
- Stephen Day: I guess in the greater scheme of things everything is connected by the overall budget. But people on...
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- News 18/5 – Top Dancer. School Funding. Fewer Couch Fires. May 17, 2012
- Are ITOs Doing More Business Training? May 17, 2012
- News 17/5 – Get Exporting! WIE Wins Dispute. Marine Resources. May 16, 2012
- News 16/5 – Premier Uni. Music Review. Tui. May 15, 2012
- News 15/5 – Nursing Investigation. Vet School. Name for Sale. May 14, 2012
- News 14/5 – World Class Salaries. Hotels and Feng Shui. Fatal Crash. May 14, 2012
- News 11/5 – Chch Renewal Plan. Land Purchase. Teaching Excellence. May 10, 2012
- Would you crowdfund a research project? May 9, 2012