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TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 42
Thursday, 3 December 2009, 9:26 am | Association of University Staff
The minister for tertiary education, Hon Anne Tolley, announced last week that she was looking for nominees to fill the four ministerially-appointed councillor roles in up to 31 tertiary education institution councils, including universities, wananga ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 41
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 2:54 pm | Association of University Staff
It has now been over three weeks since union members at the six North Island polytechnics covered by the ITP MECA resumed industrial action, and a resolution still does not seem imminent. Lecturers and tutors at NorthTec, Unitec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 40
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 3:59 pm | Association of University Staff
Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics are not in the troubled financial straits that the Minister of Education has suggested, according to data released yesterday by her Ministry. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 39
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 3:46 pm | Association of University Staff
Treasury is advising that government’s investment in education may have to decline from its current 6.4 percent of GDP to less than 4 percent by 2050. It wants government to achieve that cut in funding by shifting more of the cost of education services ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 37
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 8:55 am | Association of University Staff
SLOW PROGRESS FOR WOMEN PROFESSORS The proportion of professors and associate professors who are women grew from 17 percent in 2003 to 21 percent in 2008 according to the Ministry of Education’s just released Profiles and Trends Report 2008. Overall ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 36
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 9:03 am | Association of University Staff
VICE-CHANCELLORS TOLD TO PAY FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE An independent review of the New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit (AAU) recommends that the Unit have greater independence from the New Zealand Vice Chancellors’ Committee (NZVCC). More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 35
Thursday, 15 October 2009, 1:35 pm | Association of University Staff
MINISTER SAYS BE SELECTIVE ABOUT STUDENTS TVNZ has drawn attention to significant underfunding in the tertiary education sector, questioning whether it can continue to perform as funding cuts start to take effect. Chief Executive of WITT (Western ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 33
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 8:54 am | Association of University Staff
OUR BEST WISHES TO SAMOA, INDONESIA AND OUR OTHER PACIFIC NEIGHBOURS Our thoughts at the TEU today are with the people of Samoa, Indonesia and other nearby Pacific islands as they face the aftermath of their respective tragedies. If you want to ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 32
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 12:02 pm | Association of University Staff
TEU national president Tom Ryan and national secretary Sharn Riggs met with the State Services Commission last Friday to discuss its involvement in employment negotiations in the tertiary education sector. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 31
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 9:01 am | Association of University Staff
An all-day strike occurred yesterday at the six polytechnics where TEU members voted last week to take industrial action unless their employers came back with an improved offer. When the employees – at NorthTec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Waikato Institute ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 30
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 10:11 am | Association of University Staff
POLYTECHNICS VOTE FOR STRIKE TEU members at the six polytechnics covered by a multi-employer collective agreement, NorthTec, Waikato Institute of Technology, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Whitireia Polytechnic, Western Institute of Technology and Unitec, have voted overwhelmingly ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 29
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 9:29 am | Association of University Staff
MINISTERS ACCUSED OF INTERVENING IN ITP NEGOTIATIONS The Dominion Post reports this morning that state services minister Tony Ryall and tertiary education minister Anne Tolley have been summoning the chief executives of polytechnics that are engaged ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update, volume 12, number 27
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 9:41 am | Association of University Staff
Using funding models similar to the PBRF could be just the first step in a range of new performance funding incentives according to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). More >>
TEU Tertiary Update
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 10:12 am | Association of University Staff
Negotiations between employers and TEU members at the six institutes of technology and polytechnics covered by the ITP multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) have adjourned after the employers tabled an offer that proposes making all discretionary ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update - Hau Taki Haere, Vol 12 No 24
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 1:51 pm | Association of University Staff
Following pressure from Te Amorangi Mātauranga Matua (TEC), Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato is considering disestablishing its pioneering Te Tīmatanga Hou and Certificate of University Preparation (CUP) programmes. These programmes have over the years ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 23
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 4:02 pm | Association of University Staff
Over sixty reviews have taken place or been initiated in tertiary education institutions so far this year, affecting hundreds of jobs and resulting in dozens of redundancies. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 21
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 3:23 pm | Association of University Staff
POLYTECHNICS FACE CATCH 22 TEU president Tom Ryan says last week’s parliamentary debate on workforce up-skilling shows that the minister of education Anne Tolley is waiting too long to take productive action on this crucial matter. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 20
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 3:51 pm | Association of University Staff
TEU’s submission to the Tertiary Education Commission on the reporting of PBRF scores concludes that tertiary institutions should not have access to either the quality categories or the component scores of individuals. It argues that only individuals ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 19
Thursday, 18 June 2009, 3:04 pm | Association of University Staff
MINISTER: "DON'T RUN OUT OF MONEY, BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU ANY" Hon. Bill English, speaking at the ITPNZ conference earlier this week in his capacity as acting education minister, was forthright to the point of blunt when he told institutes ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 18
Thursday, 11 June 2009, 1:48 pm | Association of University Staff
CONCERN OVER GROWING WORKLOADS Ever-growing workloads for staff across the tertiary sector is a problem that needs to be addressed before it starts to significantly erode the quality of education students receive, says TEU president Tom Ryan. More >>
