John Gerritsen

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Collin Binkley |Sharon Lurye |Lloyd Burr |John Gerritsen

Clyde Anderson has a thick, raised scar, three centimetres wide, that runs down the centre of his chest where his ribcage was cut open. In 2020, surgeons extracted veins from Anderson’s leg and grafted them to his heart in a quadruple bypass. His original coronary arteries had become so clogged with fat that he had had a heart attack. “I was truck-driving and eating when I could, eating fast food,” says Anderson, 54. At the time, he weighed around 120kg.

3 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | John Gerritsen

The government will remove extra funding for Māori and Pacific enrolments in vocational courses, and trim funding for workplace training. The Tertiary Education Commission told institutions this week it was "reprioritising a small amount - approximately 8 percent - of learner component funding towards provider-based delivery rates, through the removal of Māori and Pacific learners as an eligible category".

3 weeks ago | 1news.co.nz | John Gerritsen

Foreign students paid $1 billion in fees last year and more than half that money went to universities. The figures were supplied to the Education Ministry by providers, as part of their reporting for the export education levy. They showed 74,990 international students in New Zealand last year, including 18,020 at schools and more than 25,880 at universities. Their fees totalled $1.085b, about $100m less than the pre-pandemic years of 2018 and 2019.

3 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | John Gerritsen

Foreign students paid $1 billion in fees last year and more than half that money went to universities. The figures were supplied to the Education Ministry by providers, as part of their reporting for the export education levy. They showed 74,990 international students in New Zealand last year, including 18,020 at schools and more than 25,880 at universities. Their fees totalled $1.085b, about $100m less than the pre-pandemic years of 2018 and 2019.

3 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | John Gerritsen

Early childhood teachers and managers say centres are struggling with teacher shortages, low enrolments and inadequate government funding. Some are alarmed by surprise changes to pay parity - the system for giving centres higher subsidies if they pay qualified teachers the same as kindergarten and school teachers.