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Fee Rises Outpace Inflation
Thursday, 18 October 2012, 11:12 am | Tertiary Education Union
The current round of fee rises that university councils are announcing is another sign the government’s cuts to education are unsustainable says TEU's University of Auckland branch president Paul Taillon. More >>
Cheapest is not necessarily best
Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 11:44 am | Tertiary Education Union
Cheapest is not necessarily best Details of which institutions received funding to provide level 1 and 2 tertiary education courses next year show that the Tertiary Education Commission is favouring those providers that have promised to deliver the ... More >>
Waikato general staff win new pay rates
Thursday, 4 October 2012, 10:13 am | Tertiary Education Union
TEU organiser Megan Morris hopes a new collective agreement at the University of Waikato will make it easier for general staff to seek and gain higher rates of pay. The collective agreements include two pay increases of 1.2 percent each over the ... More >>
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 34 - The Duty to Conclude
Thursday, 27 September 2012, 12:36 pm | Tertiary Education Union
A government proposal to remove the duty on employers to conclude bargaining might sound like a minor matter but it is vitally important, according to TEU president-elect Lesley Francey. “The result will be more people on individual employment agreements ... More >>
Polytechnic Cash Given To Private Businesses
Thursday, 27 September 2012, 9:53 am | Tertiary Education Union
The government has stripped $12 million out of New Zealand's public network of polytechnics and gifted it to private for-profit companies. More >>
Public Universities: Be Wary Of Charter School Lobbyists
Tuesday, 25 September 2012, 10:03 am | Tertiary Education Union
New Zealand’s public universities are letting big business and overseas political lobbyists dupe them into endorsing bad education policy, says TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs. More >>
TEU Elects First Polytechnic President
Tuesday, 11 September 2012, 3:09 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Lesley Francey from the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) will be the new president of the Tertiary Education Union next year, after the union’s members elected her in a ballot over the last fortnight. Lesley Francey beat the other candidate, Richard ... More >>
South Auckland panel to challenge tertiary education policy
Friday, 10 August 2012, 10:48 am | Tertiary Education Union
Staff, students and politicians will gather at the Manukau Institute of Technology to speak up for New Zealand’s tertiary education system next Monday. The Tertiary Education Union is hosting a panel discussion on 13 August looking at the future ... More >>
TEU launches anti-bullying in the workplace website
Thursday, 2 August 2012, 6:55 pm | Tertiary Education Union
TEU launches anti-bullying in the workplace website TEU’s national council will launch a website focused on dignity and respect at work tomorrow. The union hopes it will become a tool to prevent bullying and harassment in tertiary education workplaces. More >>
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 26
Thursday, 2 August 2012, 10:17 am | Tertiary Education Union
Canterbury University's decision to cut 150 staff over the next three years is a grave mistake says TEU national president Sandra Grey. Her comments follow an announcement from the university's vice-chancellor Rod Carr that his management team will cut ... More >>
Celebrating General Staff Day at tertiary institutions
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 1:26 pm | Tertiary Education Union
They make up nearly half of the people working in our universities, polytechnics and wānanga. They go by a range of names: general staff, professional staff, allied staff, technicians, librarians, administrators, cleaners and maintenance, and more. ... More >>
Ako awards showcase world class tertiary education system
Wednesday, 18 July 2012, 8:47 am | Tertiary Education Union
TEU congratulates the 12 recipients of Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards, many of whom are TEU members. More >>
Tertiary Update
Thursday, 28 June 2012, 10:13 am | Tertiary Education Union
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Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 21
Thursday, 21 June 2012, 12:21 pm | Tertiary Education Union
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Regional polytechnics battered by government cuts
Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 3:06 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Annual reports from twelve of the country’s eighteen polytechnics show that the government is drastically cutting funding to polytechnics, and especially regional community polytechnics. Across the twelve polytechnics that have released their 2011 ... More >>
Antagonistic minister inflamed protestors
Tuesday, 5 June 2012, 2:46 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The University of Auckland Branch of the Tertiary Education Union condemns the action of police, which involved excessive use of force when faced with peaceful student protest and the use of tactics known to incite rioting. Police arrested 43 students ... More >>
Tertiary Education's Sub-Zero Budget
Thursday, 31 May 2012, 1:22 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Last week's Budget delivered a slight decrease in funding for tertiary education, down from $4 billion last year to $3.9 billion this year. Treasury forecasts that funding will continue to remain below 2009 levels ($4.5 billion) through until at ... More >>
Further cuts for tertiary education
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 2:58 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Despite record numbers of students in tertiary education this year the government has yet again cut funding. Since this government came to office, student numbers have grown by 5,000 but government tertiary education funding has fallen by $500 ... More >>
Students protest 'black' budget
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 10:42 am | Tertiary Education Union
Students at the universities of Auckland and Victoria are planning to protest today's budget and impending to cuts to student allowances. More >>
Tertiary Update
Thursday, 17 May 2012, 9:16 am | Tertiary Education Union
Employment law changes Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson is proposing extensive changes to employment law, which include allowing employers to walk away from collective agreement negotiations. Cabinet approved the changes this week and they will likely ... More >>
