An industry training Bill may complete its committee stage today. The Education and Science Committee will hear evidence on Ka Hikitia. Written Questions covered Callaghan Innovation and AgResearch. Gazette notices...
Take on the Week The PM's speech on the 2014 Budget this week was mainly focused on creating unfavourable comparisons with Labour, but it did emphasise continuing fiscal restraint, with most...
Student loans and allowances data for 2013 show a marked drop in allowances recipients and payments (especially at universities). That drop was not balanced by higher student loans drawdowns. Postgrad...
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...
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...
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...