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10 Aug News Thu 10/8 – Feroz is Back. Health $$. A Shag on a Rock.

Posted at 07:59h in Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People Feroz is Back Feroz Ali, former owner of NZ Career College (which he sold to ACG, and then ran ACG's tertiary division), has bought NZ Fashion...

09 Aug HRC, SWRB and MPP SPEs and SOIs

Posted at 12:57h in Government on Industry, Industry, Policy, Registration and Licensing, Research, Strategy & Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Wow, what a lot of acronyms in that title! This post covers Statements of Intent (SOIs) and Statements of Performance Expectations (SPEs) for 3 government agencies: the Health Research Council...

09 Aug News Wed 9/8 – Top Teachers. Rotten Industry. TPP Options.

Posted at 07:47h in Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Top Teachers The Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards were announced last night. Congratulations to the 12 winners: 8 from the universities (Ruth Fitzgerald, Brad Hurren and Haruko Stuart from Otago, Ursula...

08 Aug PTE EER Reports Jul 2017

Posted at 11:40h in EER Reports, PTEs, Tertiary Education by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

8 PTE external evaluation and review (EER) reports were released in July 2017. Most had very good results, although Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre had a poor result. Relevance: medium relevance to...

08 Aug News Tue 8/8 – Jobs for Visas. Indian Agents Ditched. Corruption!

Posted at 08:07h in Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People Jobs for Visas RNZ's new story on the Indian student market has Indian business owners recruiting Indian students for jobs, for which the students have to...

07 Aug Marsden Fund Investment Plan 2018-2020

Posted at 14:16h in Policy, Research, Tertiary Education, Unis by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

The new investment plan for the Marsden Fund implements some decisions from a recent review, and will not be a big surprise. Many of the changes are incremental, but could...

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