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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 >>
Cost Of Education Races Ahead Of Inflation
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 2:43 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Statistics New Zealand released its Consumer Price Index inflation statistics today and revealed that the cost of tertiary education rose four times as fast as CPI for other goods and services. While CPI for the year to March rose 0.9 percent, the cost ... More >>
Lincoln backs away from radical qualifications change
Thursday, 7 March 2013, 2:34 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Lincoln University decided yesterday that it would delete only two of its undergraduate qualifications instead of the 13 it initially proposed a few weeks ago. The university had been proposing to compress its undergraduate qualifications down to just three ... More >>
Lincoln Proposal Rushed And Flawed
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 11:06 am | Tertiary Education Union
TEU released its submission on Lincoln University’s wide-ranging qualifications reform proposal today, outlining its concerns that the university’s proposal is rushed and flawed. More >>
Government sacrificing students for cash
Tuesday, 18 December 2012, 4:42 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Today's half-yearly economic and fiscal update from Treasury paints a bleak picture for tertiary education. More >>
Weltec Foundation Cuts Hit Refugees
Thursday, 13 December 2012, 10:13 am | Tertiary Education Union
The Dominion Post reports that up to 80 refugee students in the Hutt Valley will lose out on English language classes because of government funding cuts to foundation studies. Earlier this year the government cut roughly $32 million of funding for ... More >>
Experiment results in no teaching materials
Friday, 30 November 2012, 10:53 am | Tertiary Education Union
It seems that the Tertiary Education Commission has, in its haste to implement the minister’s level one and two contestable funding experiment, made rushed assessments of several private training providers’ preparedness to teach courses early next ... More >>
TEU Vol 15 No 42 - Govt attacks on academic ‘undemocratic'
Friday, 30 November 2012, 9:08 am | Tertiary Education Union
Govt attacks on academic ‘undemocratic’ The prime minister and the minister of trade have both attacked Massey University academic Mike Joy this week. The Prime Minister told the New Zealand Herald this week, in reference to Mike Joy, that New ... More >>
Massey should defend its academic by ending relationship
Friday, 23 November 2012, 8:50 am | Tertiary Education Union
TEU national president Sandra Grey says Massey University should immediately distance itself from Mark Unsworth and his lobbying company Unsworth Saunders after his attack on one of its academics, Dr Mike Joy. More >>
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 41
Thursday, 22 November 2012, 11:17 am | Tertiary Education Union
Protests today over foundation studies cut TEU members are holding protests and meetings at polytechnics around the country today to convince the government to put more money into foundation studies education at polytechnics. The protests coincide ... More >>
Protests Planned Tomorrow Over Foundation Studies Cut
Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 11:37 am | Tertiary Education Union
Protests Planned Tomorrow Over Foundation Studies Cut TEU will be holding protests and meetings at polytechnics around the country tomorrow to convince the government to put more money into foundation studies education at polytechnics. More >>
Directive to Auckland VC is attack on academic freedom
Monday, 19 November 2012, 11:18 am | Tertiary Education Union
Steven Joyce’s threat to cut the University of Auckland’s funding unless it teaches what he wants is a direct attack on academic freedom, says TEU national president Sandra Grey. More >>
Government funding cuts strips tutors from Manukau
Thursday, 15 November 2012, 11:53 am | Tertiary Education Union
The Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) is looking to cut courses and staff in its English, foundation studies, business services, horticulture, automotive and trades schools. The cuts follow a decision by the Tertiary Education Commission several ... More >>
Waikato Scholar Wins Academic Freedom Award
Friday, 9 November 2012, 12:04 pm | Tertiary Education Union
TEU will hold its inaugural Awards of Excellence ceremony next week. Among the recipients will be Professor Martin Thrupp from the University of Waikato, who will win an award for his defence of academic freedom. More >>
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 39 - Napier and Gisborne Cuts
Thursday, 8 November 2012, 10:48 am | Tertiary Education Union
Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) is planning to cut courses and staff after the government’s decision to strip tens of millions of dollars of foundation-level funding from regional polytechnics around New Zealand. Overall, EIT told staff it ... More >>
Napier and Gisborne Suffer Polytechnic Cuts
Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 2:14 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) is planning to cut courses and staff after the government’s decision to strip tens of millions of dollars of level 1 and 2 funding from regional polytechnics around New Zealand. Overall, EIT told staff it ... More >>
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 38 - Proposed new employment laws
Thursday, 1 November 2012, 11:04 am | Tertiary Education Union
Proposed new employment laws to drive down work-rights Proposed new employment laws announced by the government this week make it easier for employers to walk away from negotiations and harder for workers to take industrial action. The Government also ... More >>
Sacked workers have right to know why
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 12:43 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Last year TEU members won an important legal case against Massey University that allowed workers who were being sacked during a restructuring of their job to see the information their employer was using to sack them. More >>
