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by Dave Guerin
Policy, Management & People
Free Tertiary Ed The Internet and Mana parties advocated for free tertiary education at a Palmerston North roadshow.
PTE Acquisition Academic Colleges Group (ACG) acquired New Zealand Career College...
Labour released policies on ITPs/ITOs, apprenticeships and vocational education – they also plan to abolish Careers NZ. The Education and Science Committee released a report on parental engagement in schools....
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by Dave Guerin
Policy, Management & People
ACG Buy NZ Career Colleges has been bought by Academic Colleges Group (no media release online).
Labour/National Policies Labour will apparently announce a new package of youth employment policies...
The Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) had another good year in 2013, with a high surplus (highest amongst ITPs) and good enrolment growth amongst domestic and international students. New buildings...
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by Dave Guerin
Policy, Management & People
CoVEs Labour announced yesterday that they would set up Centres of Vocational Excellence at ITPs, a bit like Centres of Research Excellence (NZ Herald). We'll review the...
This roundup of research issues covers 9 Ministry of Education (MOE) reports from June 2014 – there were so many reports that we needed to cover them separately. Topics included:...