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AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 23 August 2007, 9:09 am | Association of University Staff

TEC sets up strategy to avoid OIA requests The Tertiary Education Commission is advising tertiary education organisations (TEOs) how to ensure that information they provide to the Commission as part of their Investment Plan cannot be disclosed under the ... More >>

AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 16 August 2007, 7:15 am | Association of University Staff

Still too few senior female academics, says Human Rights Commission Although their numbers may be increasing, the proportion of women in senior academic positions at Canterbury and Lincoln Universities still remains low, according to figures published ... More >>

AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 9 August 2007, 8:47 am | Association of University Staff

NZ universities in top 500 Five New Zealand universities have made it into the annual Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranking of the top five-hundred universities in the world. It is the same number as last year and up from three in 2005. The University ... More >>

Statement regarding dismissal of Dr Paul Buchanan

Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 11:05 am | Association of University Staff

In response to media enquiry in relation to the dismissal of Dr Paul Buchanan from his position as a lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Auckland, the Association of University Staff makes the following points. More >>

AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 2 August 2007, 7:36 am | Association of University Staff

University employment agreements ratified New collective employment agreements have been ratified for academic and general staff at the eight New Zealand universities. Provisional figures show that more than 97 percent of those participating in ratification ... More >>

University Employment Agreements Ratified

Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 4:01 pm | Association of University Staff

New collective employment agreements have been ratified for academic and general staff at the eight New Zealand universities. More >>

AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 26 July 2007, 9:23 am | Association of University Staff

VCs turn up the heat on reform, Cullen gives lesson on academic freedom New Zealand vice-chancellors yesterday turned up the heat on the Government’s proposed tertiary-education reforms, telling Parliament’s Science and Education Select Committee that universities ... More >>

AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 19 July 2007, 11:51 am | Association of University Staff

Legislation must recognise role of staff and students, says AUS Representatives of the Association of University Staff appeared before Parliament’s Science and Education Select Committee yesterday morning to speak to the union’s submission on the Education ... More >>

AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 12 July 2007, 8:44 am | Association of University Staff

New NZCTU President emerges from AUS ranks In a further departure of key players from the tertiary-education sector, Helen Kelly, General Secretary of the Association of University Staff, is poised to become the first-ever woman elected as President ... More >>

New NZCTU President emerges from AUS ranks

Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 9:38 am | Association of University Staff

Helen Kelly, General Secretary of the Association of University Staff, will be elected President of the New Zealand Council of Trades Unions at the organisation's biennial conference in October this year. She will take over from Ross Wilson, who is stepping ... More >>

AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 5 July 2007, 7:27 am | Association of University Staff

University staff to vote on pay offer University staff will vote over the next two weeks to determine whether to accept new pay offers which, if accepted, will see across-the-board salary increases of between 3.73 and 4.73 percent for general staff ... More >>

AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 14 June 2007, 2:22 pm | Association of University Staff

University staff to consider pay offers; 1. Honours for top tertiary teachers ; 2. National divided over student loans, warns Cullen; 3. Bid to break through glass ceiling at universities ; 4. PTE lobbyist gets ITPNZ top role; 5. University denies ... More >>

AUS Tertiary Update, 7 June 2007

Friday, 8 June 2007, 9:32 am | Association of University Staff

University frustrated over CoRE funding; 1. Putting general staff on the map 2. TEC retirement confirmed 3. VC says no attempt to bring PBRF round forward 4. Wellington’s polytechnics get funding to work more closely 5. Holding a degree benefits Māori, ... More >>

AUS Tertiary Update

Thursday, 24 May 2007, 11:59 am | Association of University Staff

University research ranking row “unseemly”; Also in Tertiary Update this week; Paid union meetings planned to consider progress in salary and tripartite talks; University salaries increase, but still lag behind other Commonwealth countries; ... More >>

University research ranking row “unseemly”

Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 4:42 pm | Association of University Staff

The Association of University Staff (AUS) says that the continuing public debate between university vice-chancellors about their research rankings shows that the competitive model in the university system is divisive and undermines the Government’s ... More >>

AUS Tertiary Update, 17 May 2007

Thursday, 17 May 2007, 10:17 am | Association of University Staff

Tertiary education has been assured of new funding when the 2007 Budget is delivered this afternoon by the Minister of Finance, Dr Michael Cullen. In a series of pre-Budget announcements over the past fortnight, Dr Cullen, also the Minister for Tertiary ... More >>

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