Donovan appointed interim ‘chair’ of TEC
At 4.30 pm today, the Minister of Tertiary Education announced that yours truly has been appointed as the interim non-executive chair of the Tertiary Education Commission, which spends several billion dollars of your hard-earned tax dollars on all government funded post-school education, and a fair chunk on research too.
Note: I’m only in the chair until they find someone better qualified than me - 3 months tops! Actually, the Commission’s board is strictly ‘governance’ - TEC’s CEO Janice Shiner is one of the best public sector leaders I’ve ever encountered. She and her team are doing an incredible job driving a major programme of tertiary education policy and funding reform, while at the same time they’ve successfully devised and implemented one of the biggest government agency restructurings in many years.
PS: Have you noticed that the public sector always uses ‘chair’ while the private sector generally uses ‘chairman’, irrespective of gender? Rosanne Meo very firmly claimed the chairman title when she chaired Baycorp in its glory days.
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June 29th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Congrats Jim - and enjoy the challenge. As you of all people know educations is one area that is critical to pull us up out of the economic mire we’re arguably currently in and I’m please the the (albeit temporary) chair(man) is someone who understands the realities of the private sector also