New Zealand's Institute of IT Professionals Collapses (theregister.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/02/2116200/new-zealands-institute-of-it-professionals-collapses
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/nz_itp_collapse/
> New Zealand's Institute of IT Professionals has discovered it is insolvent and [1]advised members it has no alternative but to enter liquidation . The Institute (ITP) wrote to members on Thursday and [2]posted a document titled "Important Update on ITP's Future" that reveals it has "reached a point where the organization cannot continue. After a full review of our finances, the Board has confirmed that ITP is insolvent."
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> Insolvency seems to have come as something of a surprise. "These debts are historic. They go back over many years. While some of the issues were worked on in more recent times, the full scale of the problem only became visible during the leadership change in 2025," the Update states. "Once the Board understood the full picture, it was clear that there was no responsible way forward other than liquidation." [...]
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> ITP's constitution requires its members to formally resolve to wind up the organization, so as one of its final acts the group has called a Special General Meeting (SGM) for 23 October 2025 to confirm liquidation and appoint a liquidator. This situation impacts more than ITP's ~10,000 members, because the organization offers assessment services that assess whether IT professionals' skills and qualifications make them eligible to move to New Zealand for work. ITP also certifies IT degrees at New Zealand universities, and oversees the NZ Cloud Computing Code of Practice. ITP also conducted educational and advocacy activities aimed at growing New Zealand's tech workforce.
[1] https://slashdot.org/NewZealand'sInstituteofITProfessionals
[2] https://itp.nz/closure
Hemingway (Score:2)
âoeHow did you go bankrupt?â Bill asked.
âoeTwo ways,â Mike said. âoeGradually and then suddenly.â
Re: Hemingway (Score:3)
Argh.
How does one solve this Unicode problem?
Re: Hemingway (Score:1, Troll)
Buy Slashdot from its shitty, penny-pinching owners.
Re: (Score:2)
Honestly, its probably time for a full rewrite. This site is waaaaaaay behind the times, and finding competent Perl coders who are also up to date with modern web tech, and young enough they can be hired for anything resembling a feasibly outlay is probably harder than just a rewrite with modern tech.
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Turn off Smart Punctuation on your iDevice.
Re: Hemingway (Score:1)
Get your Delorean up to 88 mph, go back to the first meeting of unicode, and make them sit through an complete enumeration of every possible ethnicity and gender poo emoji that every unicode compatible system has to waste bytes on.
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I've just gotten used to the "âoe" and "â" characters that crop up instead of quotes.
I just see those as quotes now. Kinda like reading matrix code.
Young productive tax payers leaving NZ (Score:2)
From 2022 and there are more recent articles. They quote the government Stats NZ for the numbers.
[1]https://www.theguardian.com/wo... [theguardian.com]
More people leaving New Zealand than entering as young flee high cost of living
Thousands head overseas, partly because of economic conditions, with departures accelerating and labour shortage feared
The question from these numbers, and the collapse of long-lived institutions, is how many people 35 and under are net-tax payers to the federal government and of that, how many pay eno
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/18/more-people-leaving-new-zealand-than-entering-as-young-flee-high-cost-of-living
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"how many people 35 and under are net-tax payers to the federal government and of that, how many pay enough to cover the government handouts, "
What Federal Government?
Did NZ get taken over by Aussie while I wasn't looking?
(I left NZ23 years ago, but I was born in the same town as Liam Lawson)
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"More people leaving New Zealand than entering as young flee high cost of living ... with departures accelerating and labour shortage feared"
I see, so the problem is definitely not that jobs in NZ are underpaying, nope, it's that the cost of living is too high. Since we're tossing all economic theory out the window, I would like to complain about the lack of workers willing to work for $1 a year for my company. It's obvious that we have a severe labor shortage rather than the fact that I'm not offering anyt
I think what you are trying to say is (Score:3, Funny)
New Zilund's unstitute of OiTay Profissionals Collipses, brah.
Re: I think what you are trying to say is (Score:1)
Good Lord! Do they *think* in that accent?
bad link in post (Score:5, Informative)
The link in the post is bad. I think this is what was intended: [1]https://www.theregister.com/20... [theregister.com]
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/nz_itp_collapse/