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23 Jan PTE EER Reports Dec 2013

Posted at 15:40h in EER Reports, Policy, PTEs, Quality Assurance, Tertiary Education by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

NZQA released 7 PTE external evaluation and review (EER) reports in Dec 2013. Rotorua English Language Academy had a perfect score. McGirr Training had a poor result, but has restructured...

23 Jan National Science Challenges $$ – Dec 13

Posted at 14:44h in Policy, Research, Tertiary Education, Unis by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Steven Joyce announced $804m for 7 National Science Challenges (the Challenges) on 19 Dec 2013. This post describes how the funding was allocated between the Challenges and the next steps....

23 Jan PM’s First Speech of 2014 Focuses on Schools

Posted at 12:30h in Policy, Strategy & Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

The PM's first major speech of the year focused on education, but it was on schools, not tertiary education. Relevance: medium relevance to teacher educators. Our Take Last year John Key focused on...

22 Jan NZQA EER & PTE Rule Changes in Dec 13

Posted at 11:57h in GTEs, ITOs, ITPs, Policy, PTEs, Quality Assurance, Tertiary Education, Wananga by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

NZQA announced changes to Rules relating to External Evaluation and Review (EER) and PTE registration in Dec 2013, which took effect on 1 Jan 2014. The main addition was a...

22 Jan 2012-13 Annual Reports – HRC, AQA & REANNZ

Posted at 09:20h in ICT, Policy, Quality Assurance, Research, Tertiary Education, Unis by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

This post gives a brief review of the annual reports for the Health Research Council (HRC), Academic Quality Agency (AQA) and Research and Education Advanced Network NZ (REANNZ). They were...

21 Jan TEC Deputy CEs Announced

Posted at 17:22h in Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

TEC's CE Tim Fowler has announced his new Deputy CE appointments. None have a tertiary education background, but all have strong bios. The current TEC GM Tertiary Investment, Grant Klinkum,...

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