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AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 2:47 pm | Association of University Staff
Separate PBRF assessment for college staff to follow mergers Staff from the Auckland and Wellington Colleges of Education will be assessed separately from their university colleagues in the next Performance-Based Research Fund quality evaluation exercise ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 19 August 2004, 10:38 am | Association of University Staff
Assessment unit missing from PBRF review With the first PBRF assessment not long completed, the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has announced details of the consultation process for the next round. Missing, however, is any reference to whether the unit ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 10:52 am | Association of University Staff
Women, minorities disadvantaged in university research assessment Men received “A” ratings four times as often as their women counterparts under the new Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF), according to data just released to the Association of University ... More >>
Women, minorities disadvantaged
Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 4:01 pm | Association of University Staff
Men received "A" ratings at four times the rate of their female counterparts under the new Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF), according to data just released to the Association of University Staff (AUS) by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). ... More >>
Women disadvantaged in university research
Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 3:23 pm | Association of University Staff
Men received “A” ratings at four times the rate of their female counterparts under the new Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF), according to data just released to the Association of University Staff (AUS) by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 2:39 pm | Association of University Staff
TEC’s report lets CPIT off the hook A Tertiary Education Commission report, released this morning, on the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology’s Cool IT community education programme says that the objectives of the programme are consistent with ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 29 July 2004, 10:16 am | Association of University Staff
Auckland’s University and College of Education to merge A proposed merger between the University of Auckland and the Auckland College of Education has been given the green light, and will go ahead from 1 September. Announcing the merger yesterday, ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 9:18 am | Association of University Staff
UK research assessment discriminatory A report just released in the United Kingdom has fueled concerns raised by women academic staff about the impact of Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) assessment in New Zealand. The report, UK academic staff 2002-3 ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 12:10 am | Association of University Staff
Tertiary education to be more industry-led? The Deputy Prime Minister, Michael Cullen, told guests at a breakfast meeting at the Hamilton Club this morning that it is now time to shift the balance of our tertiary education system towards a more explicit ... More >>
New employment agreements settled at Otago Uni
Thursday, 8 July 2004, 10:02 am | Association of University Staff
Union members at the University of Otago have voted to settle new collective employment agreements, ending several months of industrial tension which included strike action and threatened disruption of student examination results. More >>
Employment agreements settled at Otago University
Wednesday, 7 July 2004, 5:49 pm | Association of University Staff
New employment agreements settled at Otago University Union members at the University of Otago have voted to settle new collective employment agreements, ending several months of industrial tension which included strike action and threatened disruption ... More >>
Pay settlement at Victoria University
Friday, 2 July 2004, 8:32 am | Association of University Staff
General (non-academic) staff at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) today voted to accept a new pay offer from the University. Acceptance of the offer, which was for a 3 percent salary increase from 1 May 2004, brings to an end a six week dispute ... More >>
Pay settlement at VUW
Thursday, 1 July 2004, 4:42 pm | Association of University Staff
Pay settlement at Victoria University General (non-academic) staff at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) today voted to accept a new pay offer from the University. Acceptance of the offer, which was for a 3 percent salary increase from 1 May 2004, brings to ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 1 July 2004, 4:41 pm | Association of University Staff
English accused of playing parish pump politics The Acting Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary), Margaret Wilson, has accused National Party education spokesperson Bill English of cynically playing parish pump politics after he “burst into print” ... More >>
NZ Journal of Tertiary Education Policy Launched
Friday, 25 June 2004, 2:39 pm | Association of University Staff
The Association of University Staff (AUS) has launched an electronic journal, The New Zealand Journal of Tertiary Education Policy - Nga matauranga hikohiko o Aotearoa, which is intended to provide a forum within which issues concerning tertiary education ... More >>
Academic journal launched
Thursday, 24 June 2004, 2:07 pm | Association of University Staff
Academic journal launched The Association of University Staff (AUS) has launched an electronic journal, The New Zealand Journal of Tertiary Education Policy – Nga matauranga hikohiko o Aotearoa, which is intended to provide a forum within which ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 24 June 2004, 12:22 am | Association of University Staff
Misuse of PBRF data has consequences for funding The misuse of individual Performance-Based Research Funding (PBRF) scores potentially has consequences for an institution’s funding, according to Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary) Steve Maharey. Speaking ... More >>
"First-week shutdown" planned at Victoria
Monday, 21 June 2004, 1:39 pm | Association of University Staff
General (non-academic) staff at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) have approved a comprehensive campaign of industrial action aimed at completely shutting down the administration of the university for the first week of its second teaching trimester ... More >>
“First-week shutdown” planned at Victoria
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 11:34 am | Association of University Staff
General (non-academic) staff at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) have approved a comprehensive campaign of industrial action aimed at completely shutting down the administration of the university for the first week of its second teaching trimester ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 11:19 am | Association of University Staff
More talks at Otago, “First-week shutdown” planned at Victoria Informal talks are scheduled to be held at the University of Otago next Monday in an attempt to make progress in a pay dispute which has already resulted in a half-day strike, and has ... More >>