Marketing Magazine |
September 2006 |
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Education is the key to successful marketing. Fortunately, there are some outstanding opportunities for those marketers willing to take the time and make the effort. Graham Medcalf rounds up some likely suspects.
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Onfilm magazine |
July 2006 |
Tim Thorpe |
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The launch of ‘ScreenMark’ on 3 July is a major milestone for the Screen Council. It marks the completion of a project that began in March 2003, with a recommendation in the Screen Production Taskforce’s report Taking on the World.
‘ScreenMark’ is an industry stamp of approval awarded by the Screen Council to courses that provide high-quality, practical, tertiary-level training in the screen production sector.
(The
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NZ Forest Industries magazine |
June 2006 |
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The Forests of Life programme, managed and developed by Rotorua-based Ensis (the joint venture between Scion, and Australia's CSIRO), has just signed up its first Australian school, in addition to securing its second Rotorua district school in New Zealand. Rotorua's Reporoa College and Golden Square Secondary in Bendigo, Australia will now join Mokoia Intermediate in Forests of Life - an education programme that encourages
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NZ Forest Industries magazine |
June 2006 |
Vivienne McLean |
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Despite negative headlines focusing on job losses in the New Zealand forest industries, Department of Statistics (DoS) figures show the picture is not all gloom, even though digging into the DoS website (www.statistics.govt.nz) certainly brings home the truth of the old phrase “lies, damn lies and statistics", as Vivienne McLean reports.
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NZ Forest Industries magazine |
June 2006 |
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The New Zealand Forestry Minister Jim Anderton was at the RADI Centre in Rotorua last month to celebrate the inaugural graduation ceremony for the first diploma students since the forestry training centre’s launch three years ago.
Speaking at the ceremony the minister was full of praise for the progress made by the Centre, "This centre is a central symbol of the shift from the sector's commodity orientation to one
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AdMedia magazine |
June 2006 |
Patricia Moore |
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The ‘ideas vs technology’ issue was never far from the surface when Patricia Moore discussed ad-industry training with leading educators and ad people.
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Management magazine |
June 2006 |
Simon Young |
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The stereotypical MBA graduate may be young, brash and ready to change the world but some MBA students are changing their own worlds first. Here’s how four MBA students over the age of 50 are discovering new opportunities from their studies.
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Management magazine |
May 2006 |
Simon Young |
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The education industry is engaged in white-hot competition to attract the right students for management education. What will the sector be offering senior executives in 2016?
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Marketing Magazine |
April 2006 |
Simon Young |
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A star team will always beat a team of stars. Simon Young finds out how companies can weld a disparate bunch of individuals into a cohesive, successful unit.
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Marketing Magazine |
February 2006 |
Mark Peart |
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Is an MBA of benefit for a career in marketing? Mark Peart talks to marketing professionals, employers and academics and gets some contrasting opinions.
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NZ Forest Industries magazine |
December 2005 |
John Mortimer |
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It started with a dissatisfied customer and has developed into an international training and education success story for the South African furniture industry, as John Mortimer reports.
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Management magazine |
December 2005 |
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In order to solve the problem of where to find the right employees to meet present and future requirements, smart companies will increasingly work with high schools, colleges, universities and polytechs to prepare young people with the knowledge and skills they’ll need.
That’s a prediction from American trend-spotter Roger Herman which is already being reflected in New Zealand – a recent example being a formal collaboration
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Onfilm magazine |
November 2005 |
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The Mäori television industry has received a boost with the provision of 14 fully funded RONGO positions in film and television industry training for 2006 by the Tertiary Education Commission. The positions, available at South Seas Film and Television School, are linked to the 2003 Mäori Film and Television Industry Survey, which identified a substantial shortage of fluent te reo speaking production personnel working
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Onfilm magazine |
November 2005 |
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Graduating Unitec student Eero Suojanen apparently wasn’t intimidated at the prospect of directing Ian Mune (clearly playing against type) in the titular role of short film Grumpy Old Bastard. “Ian has been teaching actors at Unitec and he was interested in playing the part. He has experience as a writer, actor, and director, so his contribution to Harry’s story was huge,” says the Finland native. About an unlikely friendship
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Onfilm magazine |
November 2005 |
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The Cut Above Academy Awards were held at Auckland’s SkyCity Theatre on October 19, providing graduates of the training provider the opportunity to strut their stuff.
The centrepiece of the evening, which was opened by Prime Minister Helen Clark, was the Inspirations of Narnia segment, featuring costumes, hair and make-up (pictured) inspired by the movie The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, on which a number of graduates
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Onfilm magazine |
November 2005 |
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The winners of the second CUT! National High Schools Video Competition, an annual competition open to NCEA level two and three students nationwide that’s run by Wintec’s School of Media Arts, were announced in late October.
The judges – filmmaker Helena Brookes, head of Hillcrest High School’s media studies department Paula Allen, and the NZFC’s Kate Kennedy – awarded first prize to Snatch from Palmerston North’s Freyberg
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Onfilm magazine |
November 2005 |
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Members of the screen industry and public alike will have the opportunity to watch the cream of this year’s crop of Unitec screen works in late November.
Each year students produce more than 100 pieces, including docos, short dramas, current affairs and dance films.
The screening programme on 28 November is made up of the very best work made by graduating Year Three students in acting, directing, writing, cinematography,
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Management magazine |
November 2005 |
Vikki Bland |
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People management is a complex business, balancing the various skills around retention and recruitment, technology, compensation, organisational culture, information systems, leadership, good communication and a raft of other internal management practices. Those organisations that get it right are reaping huge benefits.
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Management magazine |
November 2005 |
Vicki Jayne |
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Who sets the business education agenda and is it broad enough to produce the business leaders that society wants? Vicki Jayne checks out training trends.
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Management magazine |
November 2005 |
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Government initiatives taken in the past three years to strengthen and support fast growing businesses and entrepreneurship are encouraging, but the New Zealand Institute of Management believes systemic problems that inhibit the development of management capability still exist. In a letter to the new Government, NZIM has offered its support to achieve changes that will “improve tertiary education” and “ensure that qualifications are more effective” and produce “better managers”.
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