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College Staff take action against job cuts
Friday, 28 November 2008, 5:11 pm | Association of University Staff
Staff at Victoria University’s College of Education have begun legal and protest action to force the college to halt forced redundancies and undertake a fair and objective review of its activities. More >>
Vice Chancellors have right problem but wrong plan
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 11:15 am | Association of University Staff
The New Zealand Vice Chancellors’ Committee’s (NZVCC) 9 point plan for university education, which was released yesterday, is blinkered and would be doomed to fail, according to one of the transitional presidents of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU), ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 9:44 am | Association of University Staff
Right diagnosis, wrong cure The New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (NZVCC), representing the country’s eight universities, has released overnight a “nine-point plan” for government policy in the sector. Underpinning the nine points is an invitation ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 20 November 2008, 9:25 am | Association of University Staff
New ministers sworn in Four new ministerial position-holders with responsibility for education in the new National-led government were sworn in yesterday. While both of the National party members are in cabinet, the two from support parties are associate ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 13 November 2008, 8:55 am | Association of University Staff
AUS and ASTE call for continuation of tertiary-education strategy Unions representing staff in the tertiary-education sector say that they will work with the new National-Act government to ensure that reforms resulting from the tertiary-education strategy ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 8:50 am | Association of University Staff
National policy set to undermine public tertiary education The National party appears intent on undermining the planned provision of public tertiary education, with an announcement today that, if elected to government, it will provide at least $6 million ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 8:53 am | Association of University Staff
“Coincidental” similarities in university advertising The similarities between two university advertising campaigns have been dismissed as coincidental, according to a story by Hamish McNeilly in the Otago Daily Times. The University of Otago launched ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 9:07 am | Association of University Staff
New Zealand gets first half-million-dollar VC Despite his university having slipped fifteen places in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, the University of Auckland’s vice-chancellor, Stuart McCutcheon, has become New Zealand’s first ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 8:40 am | Association of University Staff
Student-allowance move good, but funding must increase In light of Monday’s announcement by the prime minister that the Labour party proposes to phase out parental-income testing on student allowances, the Association of University Staff warns that the ... More >>
Student-allowance move not enough
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 9:33 am | Association of University Staff
In light of yesterday’s announcement by the prime minister that the Labour party proposes to phase out parental income testing on student allowances, the Association of University Staff (AUS) warns that the government must also act to increase funding ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 9:09 am | Association of University Staff
Auckland dealt another blow in ERA The University of Auckland has been dealt another blow in the Employment Relations Authority, this time in a case brought by the New Zealand Educational Institute over the use of fixed-term employment agreements for ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 9:15 am | Association of University Staff
Marsden Fund: Good, but could do better A common response to last week’s announcement of an increase of 23 percent, or $10 million, to Marsden Fund grants was to welcome the new total of $54 million but to appeal for further substantial increases to bring ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 8:40 am | Association of University Staff
$54 million for New Zealand researchers The Marsden Fund has announced its largest annual investment yet of $54 million in a wide range of leading-edge research projects. The contestable fund is intended to support excellence in advanced research in New ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 18 September 2008, 9:05 am | Association of University Staff
Academics warned of research-assessment problems Association of University Staff academic vice-president, Dr Grant Duncan, will today urge tertiary-education staff not to support any future research-assessment schemes, especially those based on ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 9:05 am | Association of University Staff
New Zealand still low in international statistics Latest figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) indicate that New Zealand’s annual expenditure per full-time-equivalent tertiary-education student rose significantly ... More >>
National party set to undermine tertiary education
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 2:48 pm | Association of University Staff
The National party appears intent on undermining the provision of public tertiary education, with a statement yesterday that private training providers should receive the same level of funding as public-sector institutions, according to the Association ... More >>
AUS celebrates university general staff
Monday, 8 September 2008, 3:56 pm | Association of University Staff
Local university branches of the Association of University Staff will be holding lunchtime activities to celebrate the contribution of general staff to the life of our universities this coming Wednesday, 10 September. More >>
AUS Tertiary Update Vol 11 No 31
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 9:05 am | Association of University Staff
Universities of technology bill knocked back The education (establishment of universities of technology) amendment bill has been reported back by the education and science select committee with a recommendation that the bill not proceed. The private member’s ... More >>
AUS Tertiary Update
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 9:14 am | Association of University Staff
Otago takes lead in salary stakes Otago University has stormed to the lead in this year’s salary stakes, with an offer in the current bargaining round of a minimum increase of 5.23 percent to academic staff and 4.21 percent to general staff from ... More >>
AUS welcomes PBRF report’s release
Friday, 22 August 2008, 5:12 pm | Association of University Staff
The Association of University Staff welcomes the release today of the Adams Report commissioned by the Tertiary Education Commission to review the Performance-Based research Fund. The report was produced by Dr Jonathan Adams of Evidence Limited, ... More >>
