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Thursday, 28 February 2013
Successful Study Tour to NZ for FHEC
PINZ has been working with the Fiji Higher Education Commission (FHEC) since 2006 to support them in the developm...

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Thursday, 28 February 2013
February 2013 PINZ Invited to Present at Indian Ministry of HRD Conference
  PINZ CEO, Honè McGregor attended India’s International Conference on Community Colleges &nda...

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Wednesday, 31 October 2012
PINZ Signs MOU with leading Indian Education and Training Company
PINZ has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IL&FS Education, a specialist in school education, skill d...

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Thursday, 2 August 2012
PINZ Visits Nepal for Project Inception
PINZ currently has a team in Nepal working on an ADB funded project to design a reform program for Higher Engi...

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Tuesday, 31 July 2012
PINZ To Establish New Polytechnic in Saudi Arabia
  PINZ to Establish New Polytechnic in Saudi Arabia In a major boost for export education services with th...

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Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Successful Conclusion to PINZ Private Sector Development Project
2012 has been a tough year for Maldives, with civil unrest and violence dominating the headlines. Despite the ...

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Friday, 27 April 2012
Reforming Higher Education in Mongolia
PINZ has been helping one of the world’s largest and most sparsely populated countries to reform its higher educat...

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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Cambodia - improvements to Lower Secondary School Education
A six month project involving PINZ consultants has delivered recommendations designed to encourage more Cambodian st...

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Thursday, 1 March 2012
Launch of Fiji Qualifications Framework (FQF)
PINZ has been working with the Fijian Higher Education Commission since 2006 to support them in the development of th...

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Wednesday, 4 January 2012
PINZ-CIVTE China Cooperation Arrangement Meeting
Summary Over the past 12 months PINZ has been working with its sister UNEVOC agency in China, the Central Ins...

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Thursday, 8 September 2011
PINZ Invited to Participate in International Symposium on Lifelong Learning
PINZ was invited to participate in an International Symposium on Lifelong Learning at the Hong Kong Institute of E...

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Thursday, 8 September 2011
TQI Project Supports Introduction of ICT into Secondary School Classrooms throughout Bangladesh
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Thursday, 8 September 2011
Maldives Update
December 2010 PINZ was pr...

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Thursday, 8 September 2011
Reforming Higher Education for a Knowledge Society in Mongolia
April 2011 In March, P...

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Tuesday, 1 March 2011
KASPTT ITP Update #3
Approximately 200 Saudi TVTC students now in NZ ITP sector As of 1 March 2011, PINZ has facil...

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Monday, 10 January 2011
PINZ Supports Bangladesh's Centre for Disability and Development
As a company PINZ supports international aid and environmental sustainability. At the end of 2010 - i...

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Tuesday, 2 November 2010
PINZ Specialists Contribute to Education Reform in Mongolia
The first of three PINZ consultants will arrive in Mongolia this month to work on the ADB funded Education Sector R...

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Monday, 6 September 2010
PINZ Leads GMS Countries’ Work on Regional Skills Recognition Framework
PINZ’s ADB-funded technical assistance project ‘Agreed Framework for the Mutual Recognition of Technical Skills and Q...

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Monday, 6 September 2010
PINZ September 2010 Newsletter
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Monday, 23 August 2010
International Vocational Education and Training Association - August 2010
Hotline August 2010     Dear IVETA members, It looks like the summer will be over soon, Labour Day...

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Tuesday, 10 August 2010
First KASPTT Students Arrive at NZ ITP’s – August 10
The first 90 students from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia governments Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (...

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Monday, 9 August 2010
Cultural and Learning experience for Bahraini Students at CPIT – July 2010
For the second year PINZ has sponsored a six week English language and cultural studies scholarship program at C...

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Monday, 9 August 2010
Oman Tourism College visits NZ ITP’s, July 2010
Following a whirlwind tour of the UK, Austria, Gerrmany and Australia, PINZ arranged and facilitated a 3-day visit f...

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Monday, 8 March 2010
International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG) - Jiva International Career Guidance Conference 2010
'To draw the wisdom and experiences of different cultures together to consider both universal and specific princi...

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Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Teacher Quality Improvement Project Once Again Receives Award for Outstanding Performance
For the second year running, at the 2009 annual Asian Development Bank (ADB) Performance Recognition Awards c...

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Tuesday, 19 January 2010
PINZ to Develop Mutual Recognition Framework for Technical Skills and Qualifications in the Greater Mekong Sub region.
At the end of 2009, PINZ began work on a regional ADB technical assistance project which will develop and pilot a m...

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Friday, 18 December 2009
TQI project Bangladesh Honored as a Best Performing ADB Project
In January PINZ’s long-term Teaching Quality Improvement in Secondary Education Project (TQI-SEP, 2006 - 2011) rece...

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Saturday, 14 November 2009
PINZ finishes the Strengthening Higher Education PPTA in Lao PDR
PINZ has recently finished an Asian Development Bank (ADB) project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) in Lao PDR...

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Thursday, 10 September 2009
Raising English Literacy Levels in Vanuatu Schools
Abstract from the article prepared by PINZ consultants on the Raising English Literacy Levels in Vanuatu Schools pr...

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Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Wayne Roberston Scholarship Recipients
A group of 7 students, pictured with PINZ Middle East Office Branch Manager, Neville Menezes, and Bahrain Polytec...

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Monday, 18 May 2009
PINZ Strengthens Higher Education in Lao PDR
PINZ entered a n...

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Monday, 18 May 2009
NZ ITP’s have degrees recognised in Saudi Arabia
Through PINZ’s advocacy, seven PINZ ITP’s have had their bachelor’s degree programmes recognised by the Saudi Arab...

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Thursday, 7 May 2009
Great Start for Education Reform in Samoa
 In Februa...

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Wednesday, 29 April 2009
PINZ signs MoU with Government of Saudi Arabia
PINZ has signed the first major New Zealand a MoU (Co operation Arrangement) with The Technical and Vocational ...

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Friday, 17 April 2009
ILO Training on Green Jobs
After a successful pilot and growing interest from constituents and donors, the ILO’s International Trainin...

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Thursday, 26 February 2009
TQI Project Receives Award for Outstanding Performance in 2008
At the annual performance recognition awards ceremony on 29 January 2009, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) present...

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Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Nepal Secondary Education Project Successfully Concludes
At the end of October 2008 the ADB funded Secondary Education Support Project was signed off by PINZ as lead firm, wi...

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Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Bahrain Polytechnic Official Opening
Bahrain Polytechnic was officially opened on 2 December by his highness the Crown Prince, Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-K...

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Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Bangladesh - PINZ and TQI Team Get a Strong Mark at Midterm Review
A key initiative to meet the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh’s aim to raise secondary education qu...

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Friday, 14 November 2008
New Zealand Vocational Education and Training Research Forum 2009
Call for Abstract...

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Wednesday, 12 November 2008
International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Annual Conference
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008
ITPNZ Building Skilled Communities two-weekly newsletter update.
The Institutes of...

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Friday, 7 November 2008
Bahrain Polytechnic Opens – On Song, on Time and on budget
In just 18 months PINZ has established and launched the Bahrain Polytechnic, a new leading educational institut...

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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
UNESCO-UNEVOC Asia-Pacific Sub-Regional Symposium
As a prelude to the 2009 World Conference on Education and Sustainable Development, PINZ Chief Executive, Mr Honѐ Mc...

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Friday, 5 September 2008
Countdown to Opening of Bahrain Polytechnic
After 18 months of planning and development the first 240 students of the Bahrain Polytechnic will walk through the...

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Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Second PINZ Consultant at work in Timor Leste’s Capacity Building Programme
In early March 2008 a second PINZ consultant joined the NZAID funded Capacity Building team working with the Ministry...

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Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Polytechnic of Bahrain June Update
On Thursday 12 June Bahrain’s Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa toured the new facilities at...

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Wednesday, 18 June 2008
PINZ Enters Central Asia for the First Time
With two deployments in July/August and November/December 2007, PINZ with lead firm ABU Consult Berlin GmbH, began work...

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Monday, 9 June 2008
PINZ Helps Improve Quality of Secondary Education in Nepal
In April 2007 PINZ as lead firm, with Katmandu partner METCON, began work on the ADB funded Secondary Education Support...

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Friday, 7 March 2008
Polytechnic of Bahrain March Update
The Bahrain contract has just held its first round of recruitment for Pob staff with some excellent appointments. A new...

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Wednesday, 5 December 2007
PINZ Consultant Part of New Timor Leste Education Sector Capacity Building Programme
In November 2007 a PINZ consultant began work on the NZAID funded project, Capacity Building in Timor Leste’s M...

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Thursday, 25 October 2007
PINZ Completes ADB PPTA Project in Bangladesh
PINZ has recently completed the Skills Development Project (PPTA 4799) in Bangladesh. The project aimed to assist th...

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Monday, 1 October 2007
Polytechnics International NZ (PINZ) has scored one of the biggest single educational contracts awarded to a New Zealand institution
The social development consultancy secured the US$13.5 million (NZ$20.6 million) contract from the Bangladesh Governme...

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Friday, 21 September 2007
PINZ Begins Project in Republic of Palau
In late September PINZ will begin an ADB project in the Republic of Palau for TA 4929-PAL Facility for Economic a...

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Friday, 7 September 2007
New Zealand/Vanuatu Education Assistance Programme NZAID (EAP) 2004-2007
PINZ would like to say a big Thank You to all consultants, stakeholders and NZAID officials involved over the last f...

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Wednesday, 1 August 2007
Successful regional Pacific project with New Zealand Police - Pacific Prevention of Domestic Violence Programme
PINZ recently successfully completed a regional Pacific project with the New Zealand Police. The project involved the...

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Sunday, 1 July 2007
The Polytechnic of Bahrain Project (update)
The Polytechnic of Bahrain Project (update) The Government of Bahrain has released a report detailing the estab...

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Tuesday, 29 May 2007
New Zealand tertiary providers win multi-million dollar Middle East contract
New Zealand tertiary providers win multi-million dollar Middle East contract On Monday 29th May the New Zealand Terti...

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Tuesday, 1 May 2007
The Polytechnic of Bahrain Project
The Polytechnic of Bahrain Project A key project within the Bahrain Education Reform program is the estab...

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Sunday, 1 April 2007
PINZ Builds Partnership In The Middle East Through Multi-Million Dollar Education Project
PINZ Builds Partnership In The Middle East Through Multi-Million Dollar Education Project Internatio...

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