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03 Mar Newsletter 3/3 – Annual Reports. Direct Industry Training.

Posted at 08:00h in Industry, Policy, Tertiary Education by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Take on the Week Annual results for 2013 are starting to come out, so we'd love to chat to some people about improving our coverage of annual reports. We want to...

28 Feb TEC’s Plan Priorities for 2014

Posted at 11:41h in Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

TEC issued a draft Gazette notice on investment plans this week (the final version will be in April). It reflects the 6 priorities in the draft Tertiary Education Strategy (TES)...

25 Feb Details out for TEC’s SAC L1-2 Tender for 2015-16

Posted at 16:12h in Funding, ITPs, Policy, PTEs, Tertiary Education, Unis, Wananga by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

TEC has released the details of the Student Achievement Component (SAC) L1-2 Tender for 2014 (for 2015-16 funding), with $70m on offer. There are many changes and TEOs should read...

24 Feb Newsletter 24/2 (TEC Chair’s Comments. Student Support.)

Posted at 14:19h in Funding, Parliament, Policy, Tertiary Education by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Take on the Week TEC's select committee appearance was a hit last week. Our review was the most read ED Insider post so far in February, while Fairfax's story also created...

24 Feb Parliament Report 24/2 (Loans Bill. Intl Ed Questions.)

Posted at 08:51h in Export Education, Parliament, Policy by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

A student loans Bill passed its committee stage. One Oral Question was on postgrad student allowances. Written Questions were on Callaghan Innovation, National Science Challenges, AgResearch, postgrad student allowances, and...

21 Feb The Slow Progress of Qualifications Reviews (with infographic)

Posted at 10:26h in ITOs, ITPs, Policy, PTEs, Quality Assurance, Tertiary Education, Wananga by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Reviews of Level 1-6 qualifications have been going slowly over the last few years, so we thought an update was appropriate. The data (see infographic) shows that reviews are longer...

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