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University of Otago Academic Audit Report
The University of Otago’s academic audit report is very positive and identifies no major problems. The Panel’s recommendations mainly related to feedback...
Newsletter 13/4 (Extra PBRF Calculations)
Take on the Week This week was all about research, with many interesting stories, so it seemed sensible to bring them together for you. The TEC proposed changes...
Newsletter 23/3
Take on the Week The TEC will still be involved with the new Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, possibly through a MBIE/MOE/TEC arrangement. John...
Why Did Tertiary Policy News Go Into Overdrive Yesterday?
There were four big tertiary education policy news stories yesterday, but only one was new news. Stories on student loans, graduate incomes and ITO mergers were...
Newsletter 9/3 (2012 Investment Plans)
Take on the Week Yesterday we released 2012 investment plan analyses for wananga, PTEs, ITOs, universities, ITPs and Skills for Canterbury. We apologise for putting...
BIMs – Treasury, SSC, DOL, MED & NZTE
This review of core and economic agencies’ BIMs includes controversial (but not new) Treasury positions, SSC warnings over pay restraint, and new economic...
Newsletter 20/12 – Welcome Back Grant Robertson
Take on the Week We welcome back Grant Robertson as Labour’s tertiary education spokesperson (Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment to match Joyce’s...
Powering Innovation Report
A major report on R&D on the high value manufacturing and services sector (HVMSS) was released at the start of November. The core recommendation to transform...
Cuts at University of Canterbury
Potential job cuts of 352 or 18% at the University of Canterbury (UC) were publicised today. The potential job cuts are part of the response to the major post-quake...
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...
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...
Teacher Education Guidelines – Profession Exercises Power
The NZ Teachers’ Council has released new guidelines for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes. They have exercised their power to create much greater...
Performance Funding Preview
This post is a review of progress on performance reporting after several small announcements over the last month. It is also a preview of the impending public...
09 Annual Report – Whitireia Community Polytechnic
Whitireia Community Polytechnic’s (Whitireia) 2009 Annual Report has been released. They had a good year building on their specialties, improving completions...