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Four Universities To Strike On Thursday
Monday, 23 September 2024, 7:29 pm | Tertiary Education Union
This action is in response to inadequate pay offers and employer refusals to ensure all staff are paid above the Living Wage. More >>
Te Pūkenga Staff Cuts A Race To The Bottom
Thursday, 19 September 2024, 3:03 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Significant staffing reviews are underway at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki and Waikato Institute of Technology with dozens of staff facing the axe. More >>
Simmonds’ Behaviour Not In The Best Interests Of Our Future Workforce
Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:49 am | Tertiary Education Union
“Penny Simmonds created a proposal document, set a timeframe for community feedback, sent officials around the country to engage at the taxpayer’s expense yet she has clearly predetermined the outcomes of this sham consultation.” More >>
Six Universities To Open Strike Ballots
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:48 pm | Tertiary Education Union
If members vote to strike, it will be the biggest show of force in the tertiary education sector since 7,000 union members at all eight universities took action in 2022. More >>
Devil Will Be In The Detail For Te Pūkenga Changes
Thursday, 1 August 2024, 2:22 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The consultation document, released by Minister for Tertiary Education and Skills Penny Simmonds today, proposes that polytechnics with a “pathway to sustainability” will standalone, while others, likely to be regional provides, will continue in a ... More >>
Government’s Handling Of Te Pūkenga An “Ongoing Shambles”
Thursday, 11 July 2024, 6:08 pm | Tertiary Education Union
“It’s a shambles, one that as always staff and students will pay the price for, and one that diverts time, energy and resources away from training Aotearoa’s future workforce.” More >>
Job Cuts At Otago Will Make It Harder To Train Future Doctors
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 8:50 am | Tertiary Education Union
The school has been required by the Acting Health Sciences Pro-Vice Chancellor to find $7.1 million in savings, but Kaiwhakahaere | Organiser Phil Edwards says this is nonsensical given the school performs well financially and returns a high proportion ... More >>
A Budget Without Imagination Or Vision
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 4:46 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is still waiting for a Budget that will solve any of the real issues faced by the tertiary education sector. More >>
TEU Members To Strike At University Of Waikato
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 11:20 am | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union members will strike at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | The University of Waikato on Friday, following eight months of negotiations, and a mediation session, that have yielded little movement from the employer. Kaiwhakahaere ... More >>
Universities Must Put People First!
Monday, 13 May 2024, 4:15 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union has written to five of the eight university employers to commence renewal of the collective employment agreements our union negotiates across these workplaces. More >>
Students Suffer While Vice Chancellor Sidesteps
Monday, 6 May 2024, 1:20 pm | Tertiary Education Union
TEU members call on the Chancellor to take action, particularly in light of the Auditor General’s damning observation that “the University does not seem to appreciate that it is accountable to Parliament and the public for whether it has followed appropriate ... More >>
Safe Spaces Are Inclusive Not Divisive
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 11:19 am | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is appalled by some of the rhetoric coming out of Parliament related to safe spaces for different cultures and genders in universities. A study space for Māori and Pasifika students at Waipapa Taumata ... More >>
Advisory Groups Light On Detail And Heavy On Ideology
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 3:49 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union says the government’s announcement today of two advisory groups to “explore issues facing the science sector” and “consider the effectiveness of the current university system” is light on details ... More >>
Cuts At Waikato Expected To Be The First Of Many In 2024
Friday, 26 January 2024, 10:26 am | Tertiary Education Union
A fresh round of staff cuts announced this week at the University of Waikato is expected to be the first of many across the university sector according to Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union. In a document emailed to staff on Monday, Pro ... More >>
Where’s The Vision?
Thursday, 7 December 2023, 11:54 am | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is deeply concerned for the future of vocational education, in light of the National government commencing implementation of its 100-day plan commitment to “begin disestablishing Te Pūkenga”. Te Pou ... More >>
Fight To Save Massey Sciences Continues
Tuesday, 28 November 2023, 1:51 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union members at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa | Massey University are outraged following yesterday’s release of a “Preliminary Decision” proposing to cut over 70 jobs from Natural Sciences, and Food and Advanced ... More >>
Staffing For Key Subjects Slashed - Massey University Proposal
Monday, 16 October 2023, 3:13 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is fighting back against continued cuts at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa | Massey University, as Vice-Chancellor Jan Thomas today released a proposal to make more devastating staffing cuts across key subject ... More >>
Massey Cuts Outrageous And Short-sighted
Monday, 2 October 2023, 3:01 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union will continue to fight back in the wake of more extensive proposed cuts that were announced at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa | Massey University today. Vice Chancellor Jan Thomas has unveiled a new proposal ... More >>
Aotearoa Education Spending Out Of Step
Thursday, 14 September 2023, 1:03 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Aotearoa’s three biggest education unions have joined forces to put education funding on the political agenda in the runup to this year’s general election. The Tertiary Education Union, NZEI Te Riu Roa and the Post Primary Teachers’ Association ... More >>
Collaboration With National A Bad Look For Waikato
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 2:50 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is dismayed to note the inappropriate extent to which Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | The University of Waikato’s Vice Chancellor has been collaborating with the National Party on their policy for a third ... More >>