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TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 17
Thursday, 4 June 2009, 1:25 pm | Association of University Staff
SIX ITPS NEGOTIATE WORKLOAD HOURS TEU bargaining advocates spent two days last week exchanging claims with the six institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) covered by the ITP multi employer collective agreement – Wintec, WITT, Unitec, Whitireia, ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 16
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 9:23 am | Association of University Staff
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE BUDGET This afternoon’s budget follows a long-running campaign by the government to lower public expectations around available money. In the tertiary education sector in particular, both the finance minister and the minister of education ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 15
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 11:29 am | Association of University Staff
CALL TO END COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES TEU’s national bargaining team will consider putting a ‘no compulsory redundancies’ claim in front of New Zealand’s eight universities. The bargaining team, which includes TEU representatives from each university, ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update - Volume 12, Number 14
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 2:07 pm | Association of University Staff
Finance minister Bill English stated in parliament yesterday that he intends to cut tertiary education commitments to fund the probation service and corrections service. He then confirmed his intention this morning on National Radio’s Morning Report: More >>
TEU Tertiary Update - Volume 12, Number 14
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 2:29 pm | Association of University Staff
MINISTER CALLS FOR MARKET DRIVEN EDUCATION "High on our agenda is simplifying the funding system and lowering compliance costs. We also want less central planning – in other words, the needs of students and the economy should drive the provision ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 13
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 11:45 am | Association of University Staff
News that the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has funded an NZVCC project on academic workforce planning that does not involve the union representing those academics is concerning according to TEU deputy secretary, Nanette Cormack. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 12
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 10:42 am | Association of University Staff
With just a few votes yet to be counted, TEU members at the country’s eight universities have again endorsed a bargaining strategy that seeks a nationwide university collective employment agreement. If successful, the strategy would see twenty-one existing collective ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 11
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 3:19 pm | Association of University Staff
TEU president Dr Tom Ryan says that shortages of doctors is, in part, the result of a lack of support for medical students and recent graduates. The Waitemata District Health Board is so short of house officers and registrars (new doctors) that it has ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 9
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 2:41 pm | Association of University Staff
TEU members at the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) are voting on whether to take industrial action in a ballot which closes today. It comes after being presented with an offer they say includes major claw-backs to current conditions and fails ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 9
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 12:48 pm | Association of University Staff
The University of Canterbury’s vice–chancellor, Dr Rod Carr, has suggested that, with increasing numbers of students not being matched by extra government funding, he could support tougher standards to keep student enrolments down. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 8
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 2:52 pm | Association of University Staff
Consumer Magazine is advising its readers to be wary of the consistency of marking and assessment standards in tertiary-education institutions. The magazine suggests in this month’s edition that there can be significant variations in marks for students’ ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 7
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 3:00 pm | Association of University Staff
The government’s document Expectations for Pay and Employment Conditions in the State Sector seems to be placing pressure on many tertiary-education institutions to depress wages rather than face explaining higher wage bills to the state services ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 6
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 1:50 pm | Association of University Staff
Newly elected TEU national president, Dr Tom Ryan, says it is time for the CEOs and vice-chancellors of the country’s tertiary-education institutions to join up the dots and take action if they are going to step up to the challenge New Zealanders ... More >>
Tertiary Update - Vol 12 No 5
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 3:47 pm | Association of University Staff
The Tertiary Education Commission has announced today it will cut 72 of its current 364 full time equivalent jobs. The cuts follow pressure from the tertiary education minister on the commission to cut costs. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 3
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 11:16 am | Association of University Staff
State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie, who controls the salaries of senior state servants, including vice-chancellors and other tertiary-education chief executives, is saying that he expects all senior leaders across the state sector will exercise ... More >>
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 12 No 2
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 11:41 am | Association of University Staff
The Tertiary Education Union has confirmed that there are two nominations for the position of inaugural president - te tumu whakarae: Tangi Tipene, the outgoing president of ASTE, and Dr Tom Ryan, an outgoing AUS council member. More >>
TEU Tertiary Update
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 9:27 am | Association of University Staff
Last week’s report in the New Zealand Herald that, in the face of a recession, the University of Auckland has seen a 12 percent rise in applications for courses across the board makes it even more imperative that tertiary institutions be adequately ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 9:31 am | Association of University Staff
TEU national secretary appointed Sharn Riggs, currently national secretary of the Association of Staff in Tertiary Education (ASTE), has been appointed national secretary of the Tertiary Education Union. She will take up the position when the new union ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 8:56 am | Association of University Staff
Tertiary-education PaEE review progresses slowly The sub-sector group which as been monitoring the Pay and Employment Equity Review in institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) has found the review is struggling to do its job adequately. In May 2004, ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 4 December 2008, 8:56 am | Association of University Staff
Lincoln progression case on appeal The Association of University Staff has appealed a decision from the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) over the interpretation of the meaning and effect of the promotion and advancement criteria in the Lincoln ... More >>
