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by Dave Guerin
Take on the Week
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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Our Take
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...
Two wananga had funding boosts in 2013, with Awanuiarangi gaining L3+ EFTS and Aotearoa gaining Youth Guarantee and L1-2 EFTS. Raukawa's improving educational performance resulted in stable funding, after successive...
