The Budget today announced a huge amount of spending, including over $1.6b relevant to tertiary education. Final decisions were made on Monday, so unfortunately the Budget documents are incomplete.
Relevance: high...
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Policy, Management & People
Charter Flights? A businessperson is keen to organise charter flights from China to allow international students to start study. Chris Hipkins said that any changes to...
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Ending the Lockdown People across the tertiary education sector have done an amazing job keeping things running over the last 2 months. The willpower shown in...
The House started considering an immigration Bill, and had a Q and A session on education matters. The Epidemic Response Committee heard from education leaders. Oral Questions covered online learning....
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Budget – ECE Chris Hipkins announced a funding increase for the ECE sector last night, which will mainly lead to higher pay for staff. There was...
Last week's COVID-19 document drop had some very interesting papers about the Feb 2020 investigation of an exemption from the travel ban for Chinese international students. The student support package...