Business NZ and Deloitte have released a document covering businesses' views on education (and other issues), matched with political party policies. Businesses have supported: a focus on science-business connections; contestable...
The TEC has proposed changes to the funding of education for search and rescue (SAR) volunteers. The preferred option seems to be shifting it to other government agencies, on the...
Take on the Week
The We Are The University protest groups in Wellington and Auckland have had a strong focus on getting rid of the VC in each institution and reducing/removing...
This is a brief roundup of various industry and subject-specific issues in tertiary education. The Cookery and ESOL TROQ developments are probably of most importance.
Cookery New cookery qualifications have been...
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by Dave Guerin
The Greens have a comprehensive set of policies on tertiary education, which focus mainly on inputs, rather than outputs and outcomes. Policies in other areas are more solutions-focused so it...
The Mana Party has released tertiary education (and related) policies that are firmly left-wing, with a Maori focus. Fees would go, but Maori medium education would be funded by a...
