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30 Jul Changes to NZQA Rules Jul 2018

Posted at 14:30h in Export Education, Policy, Quality Assurance by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

NZQA and the Minister of Education have updated NZQA's Rules, with major changes to English proficiency, the costs of PTEs closing programmes early, and monitoring of L7 diplomas. Relevance: high relevance...

30 Jul Parliament Report 30/7 (Post-Study Work Rights)

Posted at 12:28h in Export Education, ITPs, Parliament, Policy, PTEs, TEI Issues, Tertiary Education, Wananga by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

The House progressed the Appropriation (2018/19 Estimates) Bill. There was an SOP on council changes. The Education and Workforce Committee will consider submissions. Written Questions covered: post-study work rights; ITP...

30 Jul News Mon 30/7 – Vic Name. ITP Challenges. Work Rights.

Posted at 08:17h in Uncategorised by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People Vic Name Victoria Uni's council has approved an in principle name change to "University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka" (Stuff, RNZ). There is a final consultation...

27 Jul Reports Worth Reading 27/7 (Cabinet Papers on Construction, SAC)

Posted at 15:33h in Funding, Government on Industry, Industry, ITOs, ITPs, Policy, PTEs, Strategy & Policy, Students, Tertiary Education, Unis, Wananga by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

We're still clearing the browser tabs, and this post covers: the Construction Skills Action Plan; changes to SAC L-2 and L3+ funding rates; students' mental health; and the transition to...

27 Jul News Fri 27/7 – Fees-Free Win. Wellbeing.

Posted at 08:20h in Uncategorised by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People Fees-Free Win The fees-free tertiary education project won a category award and the overall award at the Public Sector Excellence Awards (MOE). As we said at...

26 Jul News Thu 26/7 – Breast Cancer.

Posted at 07:32h in Uncategorised by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People 10,000 That's how many applications UCOL has had so far this year, which is 25% up on the last few years. They didn't report actual enrolment...

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