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11 Nov WITT Repays $3.7m after TEC/NZQA Investigation

Posted at 15:51h in Funding, ITPs, Policy, Quality Assurance, Tertiary Education by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

WITT has had to repay $3.7m to TEC after staff in its Te Wānanga Māori failed to deliver programmes to WITT, TEC and NZQA standards. Many students will also have...

11 Nov PBRF Consultation – Staff Eligibility & QE Design

Posted at 12:52h in Funding, Policy, Research by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

TEC's Sector Reference Group released a new consultation paper on staff eligibility for the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) 11 days ago. They also summarised feedback on an earlier consultation...

11 Nov News Tue 11/11 – Student Reparation. International Rankings. Gravida.

Posted at 09:14h in Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People Student Reparation Wintec has been ordered by the Hamilton District Court to pay reparation of $30k to a student after a 10m fall during a high ropes...

10 Nov Parliament Report 10/11

Posted at 10:55h in Parliament, Policy, Research by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Oral Questions covered the Marsden Fund. Written Questions covered briefings to incoming Ministers, National Science Challenges, R&D Growth Grants, and AgResearch restructuring. Competenz also had its ITO recognition confirmed for...

10 Nov News Mon 10/11 – Business Support Awards. Sheep Tech Farm. PM’s Scholars.

Posted at 09:23h in Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People Business Support Awards The MOE’s Vocational pathways award win was the focus of an wEducation Gazette story IT Infrastructure Auckland has moved 550 virtual machines to a distributed cluster...

07 Nov News Fri 7/11 – Joint WelTec-Whitireia CE. Auckland Audit Report. Rutherford Awards.

Posted at 10:09h in Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Policy, Management & People Joint WelTec-Whitireia CE The Council of Whitireia and WelTec will appoint one CE responsible for both institutions. They are expected to make an appointment in early 2015....

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