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Parliament Report 10/4
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 9 April. A student loan bill was passed while a bill on lobbying was drawn from the members’ ballot. Answers...
Parliament Report 2/4
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 1 April 2012, which was a busy one, with many financial reviews and written questions, plus progress on student loan...
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...
Bills Under Urgency & Related New NZQA Rules
Student Loan and Education Bills have either passed or will pass soon. NZQA and the Minister will be enabled to put restrictions on the use of standards (previously...
Newsletter 17/8
Take on the Week The Education Amendment Bill (No.4) and the Student Loan Scheme Bill are going through their final stages in Parliament under urgency this week....
Parliament Report 15/8
This Parliament Report covers the period from 9 to 14 August. The Education Amendment Bill (No.4) is moving ahead smoothly, while policies around youth skills and...
Parliament Report 9/8
This Parliament Report covers the period from 4-8 August. A new select committee inquiry into technology education is on the cards, while VSM also came back on the...
Student Loan Scheme Bill Report-Back
The Student Loan Scheme Bill has been reported back to the House by the Finance and Expenditure Committee. This post has a brief review, given subscribers’...
Education Amendment Bill (No.4) Report-Back
The Education Amendment Bill (No. 4) has been reported back to the House by the Education and Science Committee. There are many changes, but most are straightforward....
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 19/7
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 15 July 2011. Labour has asked a lot of questions about Youth Training and Youth Guarantee, possibly after PTE requests....
Parliament Report 15/6
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 10 June 2011. The only focus was oral submissions on the Education Amendment Bill (No.4) and we have also summarised...
Newsletter 25/5
Take on the Week The Budget was the biggest item of the last week and our second Budget update last Friday provided a good overview of the funding changes. The...
Unit Standard-Based Degrees
A weak proposal to ban unit standard-based degrees (and, by extension, create big changes for L5-6 qualifications) has been put forward that seems to rely mainly...
Parliament Report 23/5
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 20 May 2011. Oral submissions started on the Education Amendment Bill (No. 4) and technical changes seem likely to...
Parliament Report 13/5
This Parliament Report covers the period from 9 April to 12 May. The first pre-budget announcements have been made, while the Education Amendment Bill (No.4) emerges...
Parliament Report 21/12
This Parliament Report covers the period from 14-20 December. Not much happened in the period, but we review two Bills passed on 9 December in depth. PTEs get some extra trust account costs...
Parliament Report 14/12
This Parliament Report covers the period from 9-13 December. Two Bills were passed during urgency (which we will review in more depth once Hansard goes online). Relevance:...
Parliament Report 9/12
This Parliament Report covers the 12 days ending 8 December. Many changes have been proposed to the VSM Bill, while export education regulations have been renewed...
PTE Regulation (Export Education)
Steven Joyce announced changes to PTE regulation several weeks ago that should make life much harder for the few PTEs that thrive on providing low-quality education,...
- 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