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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...

19 Feb 2014 Investment Plans – ACE, Gateway, ESOL, Literacy

Posted at 14:20h in Funding, ITOs, ITPs, Policy, PTEs, Tertiary Education, Unis by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

The post covers TEC's 2014 investment plan decisions on ACE, Gateway, ESOL and Literacy funds for 2014. We have not identified any major issues, other than various weaknesses in the...

19 Feb Does TEC want Fewer Unis? (TEC and Careers NZ at Select Ctte)

Posted at 12:21h in ITPs, Parliament, Policy, PTEs, Tertiary Education, Unis by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

The TEC Chair agreed today at the Education and Science Committee that there were too many universities, offering too many similar qualifications. He went on to say the Minister agreed...

18 Feb MBIE Occupation Outlook – What Changed from 2013 to 2014?

Posted at 16:30h in Government on Industry, Industry, Policy, Statistics & Analysis by Dave Guerin 0 Comments

This post identifies the 16 occupations that were added and the 5 occupations removed in MBIE's 2014 Occupation Outlook, when compared to the previous year. It also identifies changes in...

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