Tertiary education – are the corporate vandals at the gates?
World expert on tertiary education David Robinson will be visiting New Zealand for the first time later this month and giving a series of public lectures on increasing corporatisation and privatisation...
View ArticleUniversity of Canterbury to restructure Arts
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 5 Professor Ed Adelson the University of Canterbury’s pro-vice-chancellor told staff at the College of Arts this week that the university will review American Studies (School...
View ArticleClosure of theatre, film, American and cultural studies at UC
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 9 Nine full time-equivalent staff will lose their jobs and more than 150 students will lose their majors and programmes at the University of Canterbury according to an...
View ArticleThe youth unemployment crisis: is there a skills mismatch?
Following the financial crisis, the global youth unemployment rate saw its largest annual increase on record. Most people agree that youth unemployment is unacceptably high, argues Education...
View ArticleNew Zealand puts education in the global garage sale
New Zealand has become a founding member of a group of countries that wants to put the education services back on the global trade negotiation agenda. New Zealand along with 17 other countries have...
View ArticleNavitas brings worrying reputation to Christchurch
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 31 Two years ago, Australia’s private student recruitment company Navitas was embroiled in a scandal. Canada’s Immigration minister, Jason Kenney, had warned Chinese students...
View ArticleStandardised assessment of learning poses dangers
The international assessment of student learning outcomes in higher education is wrought with difficulties and problems, Education International (EI) has told an OECD conference in Paris last week. The...
View ArticleNZ pushing for new global trade-in-services agreement
New Zealand and a group of countries that have called themselves the “Real Good Friends of Services” are negotiating a new trade agreement, the Trade in International Services Agreement (TISA)....
View ArticleCorporate funding a threat to academic independence
Corporate funding of universities could lead to corruption in the higher education sector. That is according to an article by Education International (EI) senior advisor David Robinson in a report by...
View ArticleEmployers need to own skills mismatch
The Ministry of Education says there is a skills mismatch between employer expectations and tertiary teaching, but Education International’s David Robinson says the real problem is employers are not...
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