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UCOL strike will go ahead
Monday, 3 March 2014, 6:37 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Last minute negotiations between UCOL staff and their employer failed to resolve the long-running pay dispute between the two. More >>
UCOL strike in two weeks' time
Thursday, 20 February 2014, 10:24 am | Tertiary Education Union
Staff at UCOL plan to take strike action on 4 March unless their employer makes progress towards giving them a pay rise. More >>
Minister attacks uni and wānanga council democracy
Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 2:31 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Steven Joyce’s announcement today that he will reduce the size of the governing councils at universities and wānanga, and remove seats from local staff, students, and community members is a power grab, says TEU president Lesley Francey. More >>
Otago should sponsor students not rugby players
Monday, 10 February 2014, 4:53 pm | Tertiary Education Union
“The University of Otago’s sponsorship of the Highlanders rugby team had better not come at the expense of public education and research,” say TEU deputy secretary Nanette Cormack. More >>
UCOL strikes in Palmerston North, Whanganui and Masterton
Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 12:27 pm | Tertiary Education Union
UCOL staff from Palmerston North, Whanganui and Masterton are going on strike this Thursday (30 January) as they increase the pressure on their employer for fairer pay. TEU members want a 2.5 percent pay rise. Staff working at UCOL have seen their ... More >>
Unitec CEO to meet design staff
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 4:10 pm | Tertiary Education Union
TEU members at Unitec have demanded a meeting with chief executive Rick Ede tomorrow morning, where they want him to explain the rationale behind his decision to make 50 of his 53 design and visual arts staff redundant. Unitec plans to replace its ... More >>
Support Unitec's design school staff - sign the petition
Monday, 25 November 2013, 3:57 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Design students at Unitec need your help. Last week we reported that Unitec plans to make 50 of its 53 Design and Visual Arts staff redundant. Students at Unitec are protesting this. They say it will hurt the quality of their education if Unitec replaces ... More >>
Unitec cuts 50 design staff
Thursday, 21 November 2013, 10:36 am | Tertiary Education Union
The disestablishment of 50 positions in the Design and Visual Arts Department at Unitec will lead to job losses for more than half the department’s staff. Many students and community members are furious, with one student’s parent saying she ... More >>
Tertiary education underspend worsens funding cuts
Saturday, 16 November 2013, 2:24 pm | Tertiary Education Union
It is a shame nearly $80 million that the Tertiary Education Commission could have spent on teaching went unspent, says TEU vice president James Houkāmau. More >>
Changes to University Councils No Surprise
Wednesday, 2 October 2013, 12:53 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Stephen Joyce took the opportunity this morning at Victoria University of Wellington where he released the draft Tertiary Education Strategy for 2014-2019 to also announce the much-rumoured proposals to alter the composition of university councils. More >>
Big pay rises for vice-chancellors unjust
Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:57 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The University of Canterbury's vice-chancellor, Rod Carr, received an increase in remuneration of more than $40,000 between the years 2011-12 to 2012-13 according to information released by the State Services Commission . More >>
Govt responsible for varsity ranking slide
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 11:53 am | Tertiary Education Union
The latest QS World University Rankings show a continuing trend of New Zealand universities sliding down the rankings ladder. More >>
Stats show govt picking on teachers and tutors
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 1:01 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The government is using education professionals as the blunt club to suppress wages in New Zealand, says TEU national president Lesley Francey, in response to news that pay for education professionals rose just 0.7 percent last year compared to 1.7 percent ... More >>
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 24 -Casual employees want security
Thursday, 18 July 2013, 3:23 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Seven out of every eight TEU members who are on casual, fixed-term or insecure employment agreements would like permanent work, according to TEU's recent survey of casual work. More >>
Treasury misses the point of tertiary education
Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 3:20 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Treasury's bizarre working paper Private Returns to Tertiary Education , which it released yesterday, seems to argue that New Zealand should move from emulating equitable and economically successful countries like Sweden, Norway or Japan, to copy Portugal, ... More >>
Survey shows widespread insecure work in tertiary education
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:34 am | Tertiary Education Union
A survey of nearly 2000 TEU members shows insecure work, casual and fixed-term employment agreements are widespread in tertiary education. One in six respondents said they were currently in an insecure, casual or fixed-term position, and a further one-third ... More >>
Opportunity not austerity
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 2:51 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Long term under-funding of tertiary education since 2009 is taking away opportunities to learn from students and future students, say TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs, upon hearing news that the tertiary education budget will stagnate more than $400 ... More >>
Health and safety recommendations not a moment too soon
Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 5:25 pm | Tertiary Education Union
New health and safety recommendations come not a moment too soon, says TEU national president Lesley Francey. Ms Francey welcomed the Independent Taskforce on Workplace Health and Safety’s report, released today, which called for sweeping changes to ... More >>
Working life just threatened to get harder this week
Monday, 29 April 2013, 3:03 pm | Tertiary Education Union
On Friday the government introduced a bill that is a direct attack on the pay and conditions of those who go to work each day. The new Employment Relations Amendment Bill deliberately weakens collective bargaining, and allows employers to exclude ... More >>
Possible new employment law removes workers' right to choose
Friday, 26 April 2013, 2:05 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The government’s proposed new Employment Relations Amendment bill will not only be bad for workers but, in the case of tertiary education, it will be bad for students, says TEU president Lesley Francey. More >>
