Archive for: Budget
Newsletter 14/5 (Chch Recovery, MSI RFPs )
Take on the Week One of the biggest trends last week was the dying down of the mass reaction to the student support changes. The only new piece of information that...
Newsletter 4/5 (Student Loans/Allowances)
Take on the Week Student support changes were the big theme of the week, starting on Tuesday with John Key’s Budget speech and follow-up hints from him and...
Newsletter 5/4 (TEC’s View on BESS)
Take on the Week TEC’s latest investment plan guidance generated one of our most popular posts in a few months. The jury is out on whether the TEC’s...
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...
Budget Update 2
ED Insider’s second budget update is available here as a PDF. We don’t usually put our material into PDFs but the post would be far too long via email. We will...
Budget Update 1
Important – this post is out of date – fine the latest Budget analysis here. ED Insider’s first budget update is available here as a PDF. We...
Newsletter 24/3
Take on the Week The biggest tertiary issue of the moment is the impact on tertiary education of Budget constraints. John Key signalled an $800-900m new spending...
Release of Treasury Budget Information
Treasury yesterday made most of its documents relating to the 2010 Budget available on its website. Relevance: Low-medium for tertiary education organisations. Key...
Parliament Report 11/6
The Parliament report was thrown off course by a Monday holiday, so apologies for the delay. It has been quiet anyway – no spending scandals in tertiary education!...
Newsletter 24/5
Take on the Week My Budget predictions were quite modest and were pretty much on the mark (small growth, tighter loans, looser fee maxima, Youth Guarantee growth),...
Parliament Report 24/5
The Budget happened at the end of the week, after which it, and related taxation bills, needed to be passed in a hurry. Not much else happened. This report covers...
Budget Update 3
Here is the final update on the 2010 Budget. This version has updates on science and student support funding in the main, as well as on inflation, and some links...
Budget Update 2
This is the second update on the Budget. This update has almost all of the Budget changes and the key impacts on different parts of the sector. We still need to...
Budget Update 1
This is the first of several updates on the Budget. This update provides the key facts, while future ones will go over sub-sector issues and provide extra analysis...
Newsletter 17/5
Take on the Week The Budget is looming on Thursday. My prediction is that funding will be tight but there will be a few nice bonuses – at a guess they will...
Budget – $321m in Science Funding
John Key announced the Budget’s $321m of science funding today, with a focus on supporting the business-science interface. There is limited direct funding...