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14 May Budget 2020 – Key Messages

Posted at 14:25h in Industry, Policy, Tertiary Education by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

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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14 May News Thu 14/5 – Charter Flights? Online Exams.

Posted at 08:29h in Uncategorised by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

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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13 May News Wed 13/5 – Ending the Lockdown. Marsden Proposals.

Posted at 09:01h in Uncategorised by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People 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...

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12 May Parliament Report 12/5 (Constructive MPs. Budget Week.)

Posted at 16:40h in Parliament, Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

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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12 May News Tue 12/5 – Changing Jobs. FutureU Grant.

Posted at 08:26h in Uncategorised by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People 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...

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11 May COVID-19 Documents – Student Support & Border Exemption

Posted at 15:03h in Export Education, ITPs, Policy, PTEs, Strategy & Policy, Tertiary Education, Unis by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

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...

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