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TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 20
Thursday, 3 June 2010, 12:36 pm | Association of University Staff
Government revises Pay Expectations for State sector The minister of state services, Mr Tony Ryall, has released updated Expectations for Pay and Employment Conditions in the State Sector. "While there are no fundamental changes to these updated ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 19
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 10:50 am | Association of University Staff
Court tells TOPNZ its 34 hour weeks for union members The Employment Court has found that a staff member at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand who subsequently joined the union was entitled to work 34 weekly duty hours as specified in the collective ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 18
Thursday, 20 May 2010, 8:37 am | Association of University Staff
Ominous signs for 2010 budget Prime Minister John Key is continuing to warn the New Zealanders not to expect any new investment in their tertiary education system from this afternoon's budget. He told the Sunday Star Times that the government already ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 17
Thursday, 13 May 2010, 10:02 am | Association of University Staff
University restructuring continues Sweeping restructuring programmes continue across the university sector this week with the University of Otago moving to disestablish its design department and review its department of social work and community development ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 16
Thursday, 6 May 2010, 12:33 pm | Association of University Staff
35 librarians to be disestablished at UC Members of TEU at the University of Canterbury have reacted with anger and dismay to the latest change proposal in which fifty-eight staff positions are targeted for disestablishment. Thirty-five of these positions ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 15
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 12:06 pm | Association of University Staff
Gameshow to solve academic workforce shortage? TEU parliamentary reporter Paki Taunuhia has discovered that the Ministry of Education is planning to sponsor a new TV gameshow, to be called MasterAcademic . Government sources have confirmed that this show is ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 14
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 10:01 am | Association of University Staff
Student fees leap up and GST hike still to come Statistics New Zealand reported that education prices rose 4.8 percent in the March 2010 quarter. This is the largest quarterly increase for ten years. The most significant upward contribution came from ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 13
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 10:47 am | Association of University Staff
Workload increases at AUT Equivalent full-time student (EFTS) numbers at AUT increased by over 10 percent last year to over 18,000 EFTS whilst the number of academic staff to teach those students decreased for the same period. AUT released its Annual Report ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 12
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 12:36 pm | Association of University Staff
Joyce wants incentives for pastoral care Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce wants to create incentives for tertiary institutions to provide better pastoral care for students. The minister met with TEU national president Dr Tom Ryan and national ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 11
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 3:00 pm | Association of University Staff
ITP councils asked to consider the role of staff TEU national president Dr Tom Ryan has written to the chair of each of the twenty institute of technology and polytechnic councils asking them to consider how they might preserve a voice for staff on their ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 10
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 8:51 am | Association of University Staff
Future Focus tells young to get back into education Social welfare minister Paula Bennett's proposed new welfare programme, Future Focus, will have implications for the tertiary education sector. Minister Bennett proposes the removal of negotiation ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 8
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 9:39 am | Association of University Staff
Steven Joyce, in his first major speech as minister of tertiary education, told the Wellington Chamber of Commerce that "it is highly unlikely that there will be any significant cash injections in the foreseeable future." More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 7
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 3:20 pm | Association of University Staff
Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce wants to cut the government's student loan bill by removing access to the scheme for students who fail or drop out. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 6
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 10:14 am | Association of University Staff
Tertiary Education Union national president Dr Tom Ryan is concerned that equity funding which the Tertiary Education Commission currently provides to institutions with Māori, Pasifika and disabled students may not be renewed, or may be phased ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 5
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 8:46 am | Association of University Staff
Tertiary Education Union members at the six polytechnics that have been in negotiations for nearly a whole year now, have again rejected their employers' latest employment offer. Instead they are seeking facilitation under the Employment Relations Act. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 4
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 11:08 am | Association of University Staff
Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT) has released a consultation document to its staff called 'Towards a Sustainable Future - Meeting the Challenges of 2011 and Retaining WITT's Independence and Autonomy'. It identifies a significant reduction ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 3
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 9:36 am | Association of University Staff
The prime minister John Key told TV3's Sunrise this week that he has given Steven Joyce the tertiary education portfolio to sort out the sector's economic issues. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 2
Thursday, 28 January 2010, 11:50 am | Association of University Staff
The prime minister announced this week that he was appointing a new minister of tertiary education, Steven Joyce, to replace Anne Tolley who had been in the job for only a year. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 1
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 9:27 am | Association of University Staff
A Department of Labour report, Māori in the New Zealand Labour Market, shows that there has been a strong growth of Māori employed in education, including tertiary education, over the last five years. However there are likely to be job losses for ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 43
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 2:39 pm | Association of University Staff
The negotiation team for union members covered by the fraught ITP multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) met with the employers for two further days of mediation this week to try again to settle the agreement which expired almost nine months ago. More >>
