Abstract: Attendance at traditional face–to-face workshops for New Zealand sheep and beef farmers has been dropping steadily over the past few years. FeedSmart, an industry and government funded research program, was charged with identifying the most effective elearning approaches to use to assist New Zealand farmers to feed plan more effectively. As a result of [...]

The Ministry of Education has released a new report on Youth Training. This follows last years’ report on Training Opportunities. Youth Training – Statistical Profile 1999 to 2008 This report provides participation and labour market outcome analysis of the Youth Training programme between 1999 and 2008, using the Youth Training administrative dataset. This is the [...]

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has today announced Ministerial appointments to the new councils of all 20 polytechnics. The changes to councils come with the introduction of the Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Act, which requires new polytechnic councils to be appointed by 1 May 2010. The 78 appointments comprise 33 existing council members and 45 new [...]