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AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 10:54 am | Association of University Staff
Staff excluded from teaching-centre governance In a move which has raised the ire of university staff, representatives of tertiary sector unions have been inexplicably excluded from the governing board of Ako Aotearoa: The National Centre for Tertiary ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 30 November 2006, 11:57 am | Association of University Staff
Universities to play a strong role in economic transformation Delegates to the Association of University Staff Annual Conference have been told that universities have a vital contribution to make towards achieving the Government’s goals of accelerating the ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 10:58 am | Association of University Staff
American unionist to address AUS Conference A leading American proponent of what has been described as social-capital unionism or relational organising will address the Annual Conference of the Association of University Staff (AUS), which will be ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 16 November 2006, 1:25 pm | Association of University Staff
Lincoln delays some change, proceeds with others Following six weeks of consultation with staff, students and industry groups, Lincoln University announced this week that it has put on hold proposals to withdraw from a number of academic programmes. ... More >>
Staff pay for poor management, not academic values
Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 10:47 am | Association of University Staff
University of Auckland staff say they are paying the cost of poor management and inadequate planning, following confirmation that twenty-one full time staff academic positions are to be cut from the University’s Faculty of Arts. More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 11:16 am | Association of University Staff
VC rails against staff member The University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stuart McCutcheon, has publicly claimed that a member of his academic staff has made statements which are damaging to the University and bear no relationship to the truth. ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 11:26 am | Association of University Staff
Stop funding PTEs for research and degrees, says AUS The Association of University Staff has told the Government that it does not support public funding being made available to allow private tertiary-education providers to offer research-led degree ... More >>
Warning of further redundancies
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 10:58 am | Association of University Staff
There could be further redundancies among academic staff at the University of Auckland if the School of Biological Sciences' risky venture to build a new biotech centre falls below budget targets. Members of the Association of University Staff (AUS) ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 10:56 am | Association of University Staff
McCutcheon top paid VC The University of Auckland’s Professor Stuart McCutcheon was New Zealand’s highest-paid vice-chancellor last year with a remuneration package worth between $410,000 and $419,999, around five times more than the salary of career-grade ... More >>
Increase of confidence for Māori
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 1:07 pm | Association of University Staff
Māori members of the Association of University Staff (AUS) today met with the Associate Minister of Education, Hon Parekura Horomia, and have an increase of confidence in the consultation process around the Tertiary Education Strategy. More >>
Māori University Staff Email Hikoi to Parliament
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 11:51 am | Association of University Staff
Government is currently consulting on the draft Tertiary Education Strategy (TES) and Statement of Tertiary Education Priorities which will set the direction for Tertiary education in the next five years. More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 11:12 am | Association of University Staff
International warnings against staff cuts at Auckland A number of senior academic staff in some of the world’s top universities have written to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland warning about the damage to the University’s international ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 11:44 am | Association of University Staff
Prestige programmes under threat at University of Auckland Senior members of staff at the University of Auckland say they are outraged that management has refused to extend consultation over a restructuring proposal that could destroy prestige programmes ... More >>
Programmes under threat at University of Auckland
Friday, 6 October 2006, 2:21 pm | Association of University Staff
Senior members of the Association of University Staff (AUS) at the University of Auckland are outraged that the Dean of Arts and the Vice-Chancellor have proposed savage staffing cuts that could destroy prestigious academic programmes in the Faculty ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12:03 am | Association of University Staff
Legal challenge to Lincoln's promotion procedure Legal proceedings have been filed against Lincoln University by the Association of University Staff (AUS) following the failure of the University to conform to its own annual salary-advancement and ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 12:02 am | Association of University Staff
Warning over politicisation of research The Association of University Staff (AUS) has warned that academic research must be free of political interference in response to the announcement on Tuesday by the Government that it is to seek a report from ... More >>
University staff warn of National’s leap backwards
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 3:03 pm | Association of University Staff
The Association of University Staff says that the National Party is gearing up to return tertiary-education to the uncontrolled free-market approach of the 1990’s, encouraging competition rather than cooperation among public tertiary-education providers, ... More >>
University staff warn of National’s leap backwards
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 2:57 pm | Association of University Staff
The Association of University Staff says that the National Party is gearing up to return tertiary-education to the uncontrolled free-market approach of the 1990’s, encouraging competition rather than cooperation among public tertiary-education providers, ... More >>
University staff warn against interference
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 11:17 am | Association of University Staff
The Association of University Staff (AUS) says that academic research must be free of political interference, in a response to the announcement today by the Government that it is to seek a report from the Marsden Fund into the background of its decision-making ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 8:25 pm | Association of University Staff
Jobs to be axed from tertiary-education sector Following recent revelations that a number of polytechnics are facing their worst-ever year financially, a number of tertiary-education institutions, including universities, are set to axe staff numbers ... More >>
