2013-05-08 10:24:01 // Idealog
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Budget 2013 to support parents and communities in an effort to improve educational achievement. Funding set to benefit Positive Behaviour for Learning, Boards of Trustees.
2013-04-26 12:19:14 // Idealog
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This year’s Prime Minister’s Business Scholarships are now open for applications, offering senior managers, business owners and executives an opportunity to attend world-class learning institutions overseas.
2013-04-22 11:29:25 // Bill Kaye-Blake
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A university is supposed to be involved in research and teaching, and MOOCs potentially cut into the teaching side of the business.
2013-03-27 10:02:56 // Ben Fahy
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Media Design School and Saatchi & Saatchi, contrary to a rumour, aren't moving down to Wynyard Quarter – but they have partnered up to launch a new Graduate School focused on digital innovation and hopefully add some fuel to the ICT fire in Auckland's innovation precinct.
2013-03-14 13:55:27 // Alex Walls
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With everything that tech can do for us, it hasn’t, as yet, replaced the teaching experience.
2013-01-22 09:51:59 // Idealog
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The NZ Centre for Social Innovation is taking applications for its 2013 Social Entrepreneurs School programme, designed to help community based entrepreneurs kickstart their projects.
2013-01-22 08:38:08 // Sim Ahmed
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A new study by the government ranks tertiary education courses with their potential incomes following study.
2012-12-14 12:24:43 // Idealog
Competenz – the industry training organisation for the food and beverage, engineering and manufacturing sectors – and the Retail Meat ITO will be merging on January 1.
2012-11-21 11:49:28 // Idealog
The University of Auckland, DairyNZ, farmer cooperative LIC (Livestock Improvement Corporation) and AgResearch have agreed to establish a Joint Graduate School in Dairy Research and Innovation.
2012-11-20 09:08:56 // Idealog
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Busy executives are the target of an afternoon of 'power sessions' this week at the Sustainable City Showcase, covering green marketing and communications, retrofitting and energy efficiency, sustainability reporting, building a sustainable business, and the value of green office spaces.
2012-11-12 10:14:51 // Idealog
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Want to start developing Apple apps and get in on the action, but don't know quite how to go about it?
2012-11-12 10:08:10 // Siouxsie Wiles
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Yesterday saw the launch of the Great NZ Science Project, a TV and web campaign that is part of the government’s new $60 million National Science Challenges initiative announced earlier this year.
2012-11-06 16:24:50
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Ten tech entrepreneurs are off to a week-long course at MIT in the US thanks to sponsorship from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).
2012-10-24 16:41:18 // Idealog
Representatives from Comvita, Zespri, Northpower, Orion Health, Jade Software and Tait Communications are among the 14 recipients of this year’s Prime Minister’s Business Scholarships.
2012-10-09 17:45:58 // Esther Goh
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Wellington will be home to New Zealand's first tech startup accelerator from next year, and the capital's entrepreneurial scene is also set to get a boost with the launch of Victoria University's newest programme.
2012-08-06 10:51:01 // Idealog
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As higher education fees balloon and universities like Harvard and MIT move to offer online classes at no cost, knowledge is increasingly freely available to anyone who chooses to seek it out. Of course, the digital model comes with both pros (convenience, interactivity, personalisation) and pitfalls (grading, course credit). Dr Daphne Koller, a Stanford professor and co-founder of Coursera, offers some thoughts in this TED talk on the disruption of education and opportunities for the future.
2012-08-02 10:22:09 // Idealog
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Industrial Research Ltd and the University of Auckland are coming together to set up a Joint Graduate School in Innovative Manufacturing and Materials, with an eye to producing the scientists and engineers of tomorrow.
2012-07-24 12:33:46 // Hazel Phillips
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Once upon a time, advertising the fact that men scored higher positions of responsibility earlier than women was de rigeur.
2012-07-19 09:46:49 // Idealog
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Pukeko Pictures, maker of children's TV show The WotWots, has come up with a new university course for screenwriting, illustration and animation students.
2012-05-22 10:14:00 // Esther Goh
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Media Design School is introducing New Zealand's first game development degrees to its lineup of courses and is now taking enrolments for August, as industry insiders say there has never been a better time to consider a career in games.
2012-05-04 13:34:15 // Tony Parker
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Design is a human resource and to invest in it is one of the most important global differentiators and competitiveness factors.
2012-04-02 14:30:15 // Esther Goh
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Full disclosure. I have no children. But if I did, this would definitely be on their bookshelf.
2012-03-09 09:00:01 // Idealog
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Melbourne Business School is offering partial scholarships to applicants affected by the Christchurch earthquakes.
2012-01-27 10:54:32 // Esther Goh
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Wellington company Educa is one of the new wave of startups out to shake up education by improving communication between early childhood providers and parents.
2012-01-25 17:34:59 // Siobhan Leathley
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With government and corporates alike onside, nonprofit Kiwipedia is out to make learning about New Zealand’s animals more fun.
2011-11-21 14:38:39 // Hazel Phillips
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National is promising to deliver ‘better’ outcomes for tertiary students and the taxpayers who support them in one of its latest policies – but it could have unforeseen consequences for extramural students, Massey University Extramural Students' Society president Ralph Springett warns.
2011-11-01 11:20:47 // Esther Goh
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Howick College's head of junior science Steve Martin believes students today aren't fully challenged in school. The Virtual Lesson project changes that.
2011-08-24 11:24:45 // Esther Goh
Balance sheets at tertiary institutions are looking increasingly healthy thanks to increasing student enrolments and government funding.
2011-07-06 10:08:14 // Idealog
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Soon kids in South Korea will walk free from book-laden backpacks, with digital textbooks set to lighten the load on their backs. Last week the country announced its plan to spend US$2 (NZ$2,4) billion on the development of digital textbooks with the aim to replace paper in all schools by 2015.
2010-02-15 10:41:07 // James Hurman
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Many of the speakers at TED touch on their lack of education or conventional intelligence. But there's one thing they all have in common.
2010-02-12 09:34:03 // Jehan Casinader
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With our major export sectors under pressure, the science sector could become the saviour of our economy—but first, says Jehan Casinader, it seems we need to save science.
2009-09-28 08:15:00 // Su Yin Khoo
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Here's the video that pitched Sesame Street to the networks in 1969. Great insight into how they researched for and developed the show.
2009-07-14 16:55:25 // Deirdre Coleman & Deirdre Robert
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It might sound like science fiction, but being able to accurately predict and offer customised treatment for disease based on an individual’s genetic makeup, plus social and environmental factors, is well within reach, according to Professor Nikola Kasabov of AUT University.
2009-05-21 23:39:44 // Vincent Heeringa
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How did 100 talented entrepreneurs pick an idea only Murray Hewitt would think is cool?
2008-07-04 14:48:01 // Matt Cooney
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Steve Maharey says he’ll relish swapping cabinet for the campus as he heads back to run Massey University. But just what can a politician do for a university?
2007-10-25 09:23:34 // Gena Tuffery
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Ideas are free—and ideas people can be bloody cheap too. Gena Tuffery looks behind the corporate façade and meets the creative interns getting by on company handouts and whatever’s left in the fridge. Plus: When to stick it out and when to just stick it.
2007-06-21 13:49:10 // Jason Kemp
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A key challenge for policy makers is how to tell a compelling story with numbers. It is not easy to visualise the impact of change in a meaningful way—but help is now at hand.
Ironically it doesn’t come from the business intelligence (oxymoron alert) community—it is more the result of being able to add graphical tools and creative vision to the core data. The person driving this vision is Dr Hans Rosling a global health professor. Google like the approach so much that they have now invested in the gapminder software developed by Rosling
2006-11-20 08:30:05 // David MacGregor
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On Wednesday I am presenting a couple of workshops at the annual conference for Career and Transition Educators (CATE) in Rotorua. I have been thinking how important their role is in guiding our kids to the next stage in their experience of life.
I left high school in 1979 and the process was simple. “What is your best subject?”, “Art”, …”Well you should either go to a technical college and learn graphic design, university to study painting or if you want to start working straight away, then perhaps an apprenticeship with a sign writer….NEXT”
2006-11-02 02:00:00 // David MacGregor
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I remember two things about Miss May’s class at Mount Eden Normal Primary School in 1969. First was listening to Neil Armstrong setting foot on the surface of the moon, broadcast over the school’s classroom intercom system. I was six, sitting cross legged on the mat… a man of the world, because I had travelled with my family from Scotland by boat, venturing through the bleak streets of Naples, my mum’s hand firmly gripped in one hand and my die-cast Thunderbird 2 (with fully operational Thunderbird 4 pod) in the other for safety; and skirting through the war in the Suez Canal prevented from stopping in Aden because of the shooting. I had even integrated with the strange sounding natives of New Zealand, with their weird accents, and suddenly it all paled with the words “One small…crackle…step…crackle…for man…”.
But even that shock didn’t prepare me for what was to follow
