The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) Bill passed its second reading, while NZQA changed the definition of short courses exempted from approval requirements. This post covers news for the eight days...
Last week was a week where our Parliamentary representatives failed to advance the store of knowledge on tertiary education. Only political junkies should read on.
Relevance: Low relevance for learner representation...
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The Government has agreed to subsidise the three Christchurch-based TEIs for a third year (2013), guaranteeing their funding regardless of actual enrolment levels. In other Christchurch-related plans,...
The Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) had a successful 2011, improving its EPIs and maintaining a high, but lower than 2010, surplus. It was not badly affected by the Christchurch quakes,...
The report-back of the Advanced Technology Institute Bill resulted in few changes to the Bill, mainly because the majority report only involved the National MPs – the other parties submitted...
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UCOL's response to L1-2 funding cuts has been prompt and gained wide coverage. They are proposing 33 job losses (8% of staff) and 17% of programmes being...
