The House and Select Committees did not meet last week, and are not covering tertiary issues this week. Written Questions covered: group training; Māori and Pasifika Trade Training; trades academies;...
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Racist Post A Reddit post targeting Asian students at Auckland Uni, including talking about killing them, sparked major concern (NZ Herald, Craccum, Newshub).
Slow Visas SIT...
The latest Unitec Institute of Technology (Unitec) External Evaluation and Review (EER) report was fairly negative, and garnered a Not Yet Confident/Not Yet Confident rating.
Relevance: high relevance to Unitec and...
Victoria University of Wellington (Victoria) didn't manage to change its name in 2018, but will rebrand considerably. The University had success in boosting research income and international student numbers.
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Gaming Boost Canterbury Uni has secured $3.2m in Entrepreneurial Universities funding for its Applied Immersive Gaming Initiative, complementing $4.5m of its own funding (Stuff).The initiative will...
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Fees Free Shane Reti said that shifting unneeded money in Fees Free to an uncosted VE policy is a bad idea (Newshub). RNZ talked to Finance...