Archive for: Agriculture

Newsletter 27/4 (TEC Data Release)

Take on the Week The Budget hype started in earnest this week, with Steven Joyce confirming some changes to loans for very heavy course loads (which were, of course,...

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Newsletter 20/4 (Science/Student Finance Conferences)

Take on the Week The week had two conferences with an impact on tertiary education – the NZ Assn of Scientists (NZAS) looked at emerging researchers’ issues...

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Newsletter 15/2 (Govt’s More Interventionist Agenda)

Take on the Week The Government is setting out a new tertiary education direction, shifting from a reliance on simple levers to becoming more interventionist. Since...

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Newsletter 22/7

Take on the Week Labour launched the first election policy with a tertiary education angle – their government procurement policy involves requiring “companies...

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Industry News 18/5

Health Professional Bodies As mentioned back in March, health worker registration boards may be merged. The Midwifery Council was not impressed, arguing that there...

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Merger – Lincoln University and Telford Polytechnic

ED Insider has sourced the papers considered by the Minister for Tertiary Education and Cabinet regarding the merger of Lincoln University (Lincoln) and Telford...

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09 Annual Report – AgricultureITO

The Agriculture ITO was awarded the Best Annual Report by a not-for-profit organisation by NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants for its 2008 Annual Report.  Their 2009...

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Parliament Report 9/9

This Parliament Report covers the week ending 3 Sep and the period up to 8 Sep too. The main feature is a set of common questions from Labour MPs on ITP and ITO...

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Industry News 28/6

Financial Adviser Training A week is a long time in politics – last week we reported on insurance and mortgage brokers being exempted from being an authorised...

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Parliament Report 31/5

It was a quiet week, but this week the Estimates will start to be examined by select committees, which might generate some stories. This report covers the week...

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Industry News 21/4

Industry News 21/4

Job Vacancies The DOL’s Jobs Online index has been updated and as the graph shows, most industries are trending up for higher job advertisements (health is...

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Industry News 17/3

This is a new type of post, bringing together industry-related news of the last week. We could make this a weekly feature. Financial advisers are concerned that...

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