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TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 14
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 2:07 pm | Association of University Staff
University of Auckland students rally for staff University of Auckland students are helping organise a rally tomorrow aiming to convince the vice-chancellor not to remove key working conditions from the academic collective agreement. Student ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 13
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 2:13 pm | Association of University Staff
Three pay rises and a lump sum for WITT members The Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT) and TEU members have ratified a collective agreement that will give the union members a 0.75 percent pay rise effective from December last year, ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update
Thursday, 7 April 2011, 2:26 pm | Association of University Staff
Academics flock to union Academics at the University of Auckland have been flocking to join TEU since the vice chancellor at the university first began his attempt to remove important conditions from TEU's collective agreement and place them instead ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 10
Thursday, 31 March 2011, 11:44 am | Association of University Staff
NorthTec responds to skills shortage by looking to fire trades teachers NorthTec is looking to make three carpentry and electrical engineering trades tutors redundant. The redundancies are a very possible result of an on-going review of the area, as ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 9
Thursday, 24 March 2011, 12:17 pm | Association of University Staff
Budget Preview 2011 With less than two months to the Budget, Tertiary Update takes an extended look at what we can expect from the 19 May Budget and what we might need to see to ensure that our excellent tertiary education system is able to flourish. ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 8
Thursday, 17 March 2011, 11:43 am | Association of University Staff
Too many fixed term jobs for on-going work New Zealand tertiary institutions are relying too heavily on casual and temporary labour for jobs that should be permanent says TEU national president Dr Sandra Grey. The growth of casual labour in tertiary ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 7
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 2:23 pm | Association of University Staff
ITP MECA saga goes back to court The on-going saga around the ITP multi-employer collective agreement will head to court one more time. TEU has applied to the Employment Court claiming it should not be required to continue to bargain with the six ex-ITP ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 6
Thursday, 3 March 2011, 11:38 am | Association of University Staff
PBRF reporting in danger at Auckland Uni Over 250 academic TEU members attended a stopwork meeting at the University of Auckland last week and began a ballot on a campaign of escalating industrial action to retain important terms and conditions ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 5
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 3:14 pm | Association of University Staff
Recovering from the earthquake As details of Tuesday's horrific earthquake continue to emerge it seems that hundreds of TEU members and their families have seen their workplaces and homes shaken or destroyed TEU national president Sandra Grey said, ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 4
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 2:52 pm | Association of University Staff
Aoraki staff suffering back-to-school blues Spare a thought for tutors and students at Aoraki Polytechnic where low morale and stress from restructuring means a number of staff have resigned, or are on sick leave, just as the teaching year begins. TEU ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 3
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 10:24 am | Association of University Staff
Student achievement grants cut for 8 polytechnics Polytechnics and one wānanga were big losers in this year’s Government’s Student Achievement Component (SAC) funding for the tertiary education sector. Figures released last year from the ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 2
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 10:32 am | Association of University Staff
UoA academics turn down money for the bag Academic members of the union at the University of Auckland will be meeting next week to consider industrial action after the university failed to respond to their concerns over their employment negotiations last week. ... More >>
Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 1
Thursday, 27 January 2011, 3:29 pm | Association of University Staff
What could yesterday's spending cuts mean for tertiary education? Prime Minister John Key announced yesterday that he intends to reduce the government's already diminished government operating allowance – the allowance for new spending in the 2011 Budget ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 47
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 10:28 am | Association of University Staff
Could trade agreement let for-profit US universities sue NZ polytechnics? The government is currently negotiating, in secret with eight other countries, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). This proposed agreement will dramatically increase ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 46
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 11:54 am | Association of University Staff
EIT votes on definition of academic staff role TEU members at Napier's Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) are voting on whether to accept a new collective agreement that the union says will help protect academics from losing work to staff on a lower pay ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 45
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 1:38 pm | Association of University Staff
Government cuts $250 per student A Ministry of Education report published this week shows that funding per equivalent full time student fell 3.2 percent between 2008 and 2009 The report, Outputs and outcomes of the government’s tertiary education ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 44
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 9:32 am | Association of University Staff
20 redundancies likely this week at Manukau Manukau Institute of Technology has announced it will cut seven and a half full time staff from its Schools of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, with a further 12 redundancies a very real possibility ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 43
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 11:44 am | Association of University Staff
Over 50 major tertiary restructurings in the past year TEU members have highlighted a growing concern about the impact that an on-going cycle of restructurings, redundancies and funding cuts is having on the staff at the country's polytechnics. TEU members ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 42
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 8:55 am | Association of University Staff
Nursing education to move from polytechnics to universities? The tertiary education advisory company Ed Insider reports that NZNO has released for consultation a vision statement on nursing in New Zealand. The statement includes the idea that universities ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 41
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 10:00 am | Association of University Staff
High flying VC told to rein in costs The University the Auckland's vice chancellor, Stuart McCutcheon, saw his remuneration increase yet again, according to the State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie, from less than $570,000 in 2008 to more than $610,000 ... More >>
