Posted at 09:58h
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Policy
by Dave Guerin
Policy, Management & People
Science Funding Model The Macdiarmid Institute's Director, Kate McGrath, wrote a blog post criticising the Government’s science funding model, and particularly the Marsden Fund process (but also overhead and...
Posted at 10:31h
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Funding,
ITOs,
ITPs,
Parliament,
Policy,
PTEs,
Staff,
Students,
Tertiary Education,
Unis,
Wananga
by Dave Guerin
We have conducted a full analysis of the parts of the 2015 Budget relevant to tertiary education, and it is available at our site. The summary of that document is...
Posted at 09:28h
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Policy
by Dave Guerin
Sorry to those of you who got 2 lorem ipsum emails on the Budget yesterday. We were trying to use a manual system to send you our Budget update just...
Fee increases will be held to 3%, not the current 4%, under a Budget 2015 proposal. University science and agriculture courses will get the bulk of funding rate changes, while...
Posted at 09:22h
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Policy
by Dave Guerin
The Budget is today and we'll send a post just after 2pm with the key messages from Ministers. We'll be at the Budget lockup from 10.30am and most of our time will...
NZQA's proposal to require extra data from PTEs with international students, but without TEC funding, is proceeding as they proposed in Nov 2014. The balance between benefits and cost remains...