ITI NEWSLETTER
ITI's April NewsletterWelcome to our April newsletter, with a focus on maximising PTEs' role - with a small role, we have to make the most of what we have got!
Maximising PTEs’ Role
ITI’s major project at the moment is to maximise the role of PTEs. In a world where Ministers have limited the PTE role through the TES/STEP and the TEC has limited it through their investment guidance, we have to make the most of what we have got. PTEs do have an ongoing role in the tertiary ... more »
ITI Campaign Up and Running
ITI launched a campaign in March to invite like-minded private training establishments to join with us in a campaign to: 1. effectively represent the interests of quality PTEs in the implementation of the tertiary education reforms, enabling PTEs to continue to sustainably meet stakeholders’ ... more »
ITI Seeks New Members (Voluntarily)
ITI welcomes applications from potential members who support what we do, but we were surprised to see a recent proposal from another PTE peak body, NZAPEP, that all private training establishments (PTEs) should have to join a peak body. They argued that non-member PTEs were getting a free ... more »
MDS Now in Advanced 3D!
In recognition of changing industry demands, Media Design School has unveiled a brand new qualification - The Graduate Diploma of Advanced 3D Productions, an extensive 64-week course. This new qualification has been specifically designed with industry input to give graduates significant team ... more »
Under-Promising and Over-Delivering?
Over-delivery has become a recent buzzword around the TEC and rumours abound about quite what it means. It seems that the TEC might penalise providers for enrolling more students than they said they would - 3% seems to be the threshold. ITI was provided with a couple of sentences about this ... more »