Archive for: Fee Maxima
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...
Parliament Report 27/2
TEI governance reform is moving up the agenda, with staff and student reps most likely to be at risk if change occurs. The Greens’ Jan Logie continues to gain...
Parliament Report 20/2
The week was pretty quiet other than a splash by the Greens’ Jan Logie over the Training Incentive Allowance. This Parliament Report covers the period from...
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...
Greens – Tertiary Education Policy
The Greens have a comprehensive set of policies on tertiary education, which focus mainly on inputs, rather than outputs and outcomes. Policies in other areas are...
Labour’s Tertiary Education Policy
Labour’s new tertiary education policy has been introduced, with a fairly predictable approach and limited funding proposals. The new ideas are targeted funding...
QA of Offshore Education
NZQA is consulting on rules around the quality assurance of offshore education delivery. Many of the rules seem sensible but the requirement for provision to be...
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....
2012 Annual Maximum Fee Movement – Consultation
Annual Fee Movement Limit (AFML) regulations for 2011 were released for consultation yesterday. The major addition is limits on pilot training fees, while there...
SAC Funding Determination
The TEC has released the Student Achievement Component (SAC) funding determination for 2011-12. The main news is that performance funding measures have been...
2011 Annual Fee Movement Limit – Consultation
Annual Fee Movement Limit regulations for 2011 were released for consultation last week. There are no major fish-hooks – GST rate changes have been accounted...
Parliament Report 2/8
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 30 July. We have added coverage of the New Zealand Gazette to the Parliament Report this week (and from now on),...
Steven Joyce Speech
Steven Joyce gave a speech today on tertiary education policy – new items covered ITPQ, only years 1 and 2 of plan funding to be confirmed, a review of tuition...
MOE Release of Budget Cabinet Papers
Alongside the Treasury papers covered last week, the three tertiary education Cabinet papers connected with the Budget have now been released on the Ministry of...
Joyce’s Choices
This post reviews Steven Joyce’s progress after 3 months as the Minister for Tertiary Education. He is making small, but significant, changes and could shape...
Parliament Report 26/4
The Budget period is heating up as Ministers drop hints about fees, loans and allowances and the Opposition asks questions. Finally ACE cuts are falling off the...
Parliament Report 16/4
Nothing major happened this week at Parliament relating to tertiary education, but some questions around TEI enrolment legislation and fee maxima are interesting. Relevance:Low-medium...