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01 Apr Careerforce EER Report

Posted at 10:34h in EER Reports, ITOs, Tertiary Education by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

The Careerforce ITO's (Careerforce) external evaluation and review (EER) report was released in Oct 2013. The report was positive, reflecting a well-run ITO which has produced good performance on key...

31 Mar Parliament Report 31/3 (Research Focus)

Posted at 09:24h in Parliament, Policy, Politics, Research by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Written Questions covered National Science Challenges, AgResearch, Canterbury's Uni's business case investment, Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs) and Callaghan Innovation. The House did not sit, so there were no select...

28 Mar Newsletter 28/3 (Election Year. Lincoln Cuts)

Posted at 14:18h in Industry, Policy, Tertiary Education by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

Take on the Week It's election year and apparently education is the top election issue. To be fair, student support, national standards and so on will be bigger issues than salaries...

27 Mar NZQA Gets a Conviction and Seeks to Seize Assets

Posted at 10:49h in Policy, PTEs, Quality Assurance by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

NZQA has gained a criminal conviction against a former PTE director, and is also seeking to seize assets from people associated with Assignment4U, an alleged assignment cheating service. Relevance: high relevance...

26 Mar Massey University – Academic Audit Report

Posted at 15:05h in EER Reports, Tertiary Education, Unis by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

The Academic Quality Agency for NZ Universities (AQA) released an academic audit report on Massey University (Massey) yesterday. The audit team's main recommendations addressed the variable implementation by Colleges of...

25 Mar Education Amendment Bill (No 2) – International, PTE and NZQA Issues

Posted at 12:34h in Export Education, Parliament, Policy, PTEs, Quality Assurance, Tertiary Education by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

The Education Amendment Bill (No 2) will change the Code of Practice for the Pastoral Care of International Students (the Code), as outlined in Oct 2013. That will include a...

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