Labour is seeking information on the review of search and rescue funding, and postgrad enrolments, while universities have changed student representation on their Councils.
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Vocational Pathways were launched yesterday by Hekia Parata and Steven Joyce. The communications around the initiative continued to be a bit weak (as we noted last June...
A new sampling approach for firms has boosted research and development (R&D) spending by 25% from 2010 to 2012. Inflation, GDP growth and static government/universities spending resulted in no change...
A Bill on student loans passed last week, while Steven Joyce spoke about export education statistics in the House.
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Steven Joyce was challenged over his export...
The investment plan process for universities was fairly robust (other than in the research area). Extra EFTS went mainly to engineering, Auckland/BOP campuses and Maori/Pasifika enrolments. TEC suggested more differentiation...
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by Dave Guerin
Take on the Week
The biggest story of the last week was Lincoln's announcement that it was checking whether a fungus being researched there was a genetically modified organism being used...
