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Empower locals to decide the future of WITT
Friday, 24 November 2017, 5:02 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Empower locals to decide the future of WITT Staff, students and the local community should decide the future of Western Institute of Technology Taranaki (WITT), not an external advisor who has less experience of what it is like to work and study ... More >>
Closing courses would turn off tap of Kiwi talent
Thursday, 2 November 2017, 9:18 am | Tertiary Education Union
Plans announced by University of Otago management this week to shut down New Zealand’s only comprehensive bachelors to doctorate degree qualification in clothing and textiles science would severely undermine a valuable sector that draws world class talent ... More >>
Decision to scrap pay equity bill a positive step
Wednesday, 1 November 2017, 7:21 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The new government has moved quickly to scrap National’s flawed Equal Pay and Pay Equity Bill, a decision that was welcomed by the Tertiary Education Union as a positive step towards making sure women are paid fairly for the work they do. More >>
NorthTec cuts can be avoided with new Minister’s support
Friday, 27 October 2017, 5:00 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Tertiary Education Union - Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa Plans announced today for massive job cuts at NorthTec are symptomatic of National’s misguided approach to funding tertiary education and can be avoided with the support of the new government, ... More >>
New Minister must reform tertiary education for all Kiwis
Thursday, 26 October 2017, 1:35 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Rebuilding the tertiary education sector into one that benefits us all is an urgent priority for the new government, and to support the new Education Minister, Chris Hipkins, deliver the change we need, the Tertiary Education Union has today published ... More >>
Labour’s Tertiary Education Promise Gives People a Choice
Tuesday, 29 August 2017, 1:47 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Labour’s promise to give everyone one year full-time study free means voters have a real choice this election about the future of public tertiary education, the Tertiary Education Union said today. More >>
100 Tertiary Education Stories National Needs to Hear
Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 4:11 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Tertiary Education Union - Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa One Hundred Tertiary Education Stories That National Needs to Hear More >>
Future of Public Tertiary Education is on the Ballot Paper
Friday, 21 July 2017, 3:03 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Labour’s promise to ditch the National-led Government’s plans to change the law so that public funds can be diverted to for-profit education offers voters a real choice in this election about the future of public tertiary education, the Tertiary ... More >>
Cutting Nearly 200 Staff Puts Otago Uni’s Reputation at risk
Friday, 14 July 2017, 4:15 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Staff at the University of Otago are deeply concerned about the impact Vice-Chancellor Harlene Hayne’s plan to cut 182 full time equivalent jobs will have on students and the university’s ability to continue providing world class learning opportunities. More >>
MPs Must Not Rush Debate on Huge Change to Tertiary Funding
Wednesday, 5 July 2017, 12:45 pm | Tertiary Education Union
MPs must not rush debate on a change of law that would give for-profit tertiary education companies equal funding to universities, polytechnics and wānanga, more than one-hundred students, academics, general staff and union representatives have ... More >>
Ministers Must Commit to Properly Funding Telford Takeover
Thursday, 29 June 2017, 10:16 am | Tertiary Education Union
Before signing-off on an agreement for Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre to take-over the Telford division of Lincoln University, Ministers must make sure a properly funded long-term plan is put in place to ensure continued provision of training opportunities ... More >>
Timaru Let Down by National’s Tertiary Education Approach
Wednesday, 14 June 2017, 10:40 am | Tertiary Education Union
The decision to cut five courses at the Ara Institute of Canterbury is symptomatic of an approach to tertiary education that is failing local communities, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) said today. More >>
Labour’s Immigration Policy Needs to Backed by Promise
Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 2:34 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Labour’s Immigration Policy Needs to Backed by Promise to Fund Public Tertiary Institutions Properly Today the Labour Party announced a new immigration policy, including proposals to stop issuing student visas to people wanting to study certain ... More >>
Politicians at meeting to keep tertiary education public
Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 1:27 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Today at 4.30pm in Old Government House, Princes Street, Auckland, politicians and candidates from Labour, the Greens and Māori Party will address a public meeting to discuss National’s plans to change the law to funnel public money into private ... More >>
Transfer of Funds From Public to Private Tertiary Education
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 8:17 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Today’s budget will cut funding to public tertiary education, handing millions of dollars of public funds to the private sector. More >>
Campaign to protect public tertiary education
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 2:38 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Staff, students and representatives of the local community will come together tomorrow at the Ara Institute of Canterbury to launch the TEU’s campaign to protect quality public tertiary education from a controversial law prioritising for-profit providers. More >>
Increase government support to stop students going hungry
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 2:36 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Students at Unitec are regularly going without food or other necessities because they cannot afford them, according to a survey of students by the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA). More >>
Minister must review pressure to pass crisis
Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 9:55 am | Tertiary Education Union
National’s approach to tertiary education is putting staff under immense pressure to pass students and must be the subject of a thorough sector-wide review before further changes are enshrined in law, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) said today. More >>
National’s Failure to Keep Ara Pledge a Betrayal
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 3:25 pm | Tertiary Education Union
National will be betraying a pledge to ensure quality tertiary education provision in Timaru unless it intervenes to save five primary training courses earmarked for closure at the Ara Institute of Canterbury, the TEU said today. More >>
‘Crisis of staff well-being’ has engulfed tertiary education
Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 9:11 am | Tertiary Education Union
Staff at tertiary education institutions are experiencing higher levels of stress, unsustainable workloads and are feeling more alienated from their jobs compared to a decade ago and reforms introduced by the National government are to blame, the ... More >>
