University staff greatest donors to Australian higher education
While donations by external benefactors to Australian universities receive positive publicity, the in-kind donations of uncompensated overtime provided by university staff goes virtually unreported....
View ArticleToo much NZ education going to foreign stockholders
Many New Zealand tertiary education providers are being bought and sold on international share markets. The Australian Financial Review reports that Australia’s largest private equity firm Pacific...
View ArticleJoyce defends NZQA’s Agribusiness report
Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce says that Agribusiness Training Limited was delivering courses using far fewer hours than it was funded for. The Labour Party’s David Cunliffe wrote a...
View ArticleVice-chancellors humbled by Australian Budget
It has all come crashing down for Australia’s vice-chancellors who backed deregulation, according to New Matilda. Australia’s 2016 Federal Budget package, which would have allowed them to massively...
View ArticleForward tells Australia’s vocational education tale
Australia’s Pat Forward will be visiting New Zealand polytechnics this month to describe what has happened to vocational education in Australia after years of budget cuts and privatisation. Forward,...
View ArticleIntueri’s dive school to repay $1.5m
The Tertiary Education Commission is demanding the Intueri-owned New Zealand School of Commercial Diver Training repay $1.47 million for under-delivered courses. The commission investigated student...
View ArticleHigher education awaits outcome of Australian election
The outcome of Australia’s federal election is hanging in the balance, but it looks like the electorate expressed a lack of confidence in both the Coalition and Labor to govern the country. Many voted...
View ArticleVictoria sells Pathways course to private equity firm
Victoria University of Wellington has announced it is outsourcing its pre-degree foundations studies courses to one of New Zealand’s largest private education companies, ACG. The university hopes that...
View ArticleIntueri CEO quits amid funding investigations
The chief executive of one of New Zealand’s largest private education companies, Intueri, has stood down as its share price plummeted this week. The Australian says Intueri’s chief executive Rob Facer...
View ArticleGovernment finds 10,000 student debtors in Aussie
Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce announced that Inland Revenue, together with the Australian Tax Office, has located 10,400 student loan borrowers living in Australia. Inland Revenue will now...
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