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Christchurch Polytechnic staff walk off on strike
Monday, 1 August 2011, 2:25 pm | Tertiary Education Union
"A kick in the guts" and “being undervalued” was how teachers at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) described their employer's proposal to make them work more hours and take away their leave. More >>
Christchurch Polytechnic wants longer days for teachers
Thursday, 28 July 2011, 10:44 am | Tertiary Education Union
CPIT is seeking to make its staff teach more hours on more days across the year and give up weeks of leave. Tertiary Education Union (TEU) advocate Kris Smith says it is simply not fair for a polytechnic that has made large surpluses to do this, ... More >>
Surpluses at public institutions raise questions
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 11:14 am | Tertiary Education Union
Ministry of Education statistics show the average surplus as a percentage of revenue at public tertiary education providers climbing dramatically from 1.9 percent in 2006 to 5.2 percent last year. More >>
Court of Appeal tells polytechnics to start negotiating
Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 12:17 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The Court of Appeal ruled today that five polytechnics must bargain site-based collective agreements with their staff members who are union members. The five polytechnics - NorthTec, Unitec, Wintec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Whitireia - had refused ... More >>
Campaign to kick-start bargaining at five polytechnics
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 2:56 pm | Tertiary Education Union
TEU members at five polytechnics will launch a major campaign on Friday evening to convince their employers that it is time to give up the legal challenges and start bargaining for site collective agreements as the Employment Court agreed should happen ... More >>
'Business as Usual' Not Realistic for Canterbury Academics
Monday, 23 May 2011, 4:59 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The Tertiary Education Commission has told academics today at the University of Canterbury, Lincoln University and CPIT that it will be business as usual for their Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) quality evaluations. More >>
Tertiary education savaged in budget
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 2:59 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The Finance Minister Bill English said today that the government would invest about $3 billion into health and education alone. However, the reality is that tertiary education funding has been savaged. More >>
Wintec prepares to sack lauded security education staff
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 10:39 am | Tertiary Education Union
Expert security education staff that Wintec management were lauding just weeks ago will shortly be made redundant if a Wintec proposal goes ahead. More >>
University of Auckland Confiscates Graduation Rosettes
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 5:00 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Staff and students were shocked yesterday at the Law and Arts Graduation ceremony when university officials barred entry to the ceremony to one of the University’s top-achieving students. More >>
Court rules polytechnic lecturers can have their agreement
Friday, 15 April 2011, 11:05 am | Tertiary Education Union
TEU members at six polytechnics have won an important case before a full bench of the Employment Court that allows them to negotiate the type of employment agreement that they choose. Yesterday the court decided that TEU members at Northtec, Unitec, ... More >>
Wānanga bias against independent union members
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 12:10 pm | Tertiary Education Union
TEU members at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa are dismayed that their employer is offering them less annual leave than both members of the wānanga's in-house union, TUIA, and kaimahi on individual agreements. More >>
NorthTec responds to skills shortage by looking to fire
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 3:46 pm | Tertiary Education Union
NorthTec is looking to make three carpentry and electrical engineering trades tutors redundant. The redundancies are a very possible result of an on-going review of the area, as NorthTec tries to cut budgets and save money. More >>
Widespread Budget Cuts Don't Spare Education
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 4:00 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The government's plan to cut everything except health and education is foolhardy says TEU national president Dr Sandra Grey. The Prime Minister said that there would be $800 million of new spending for education and health in this year's budget. More >>
We need trades tutors to teach the rebuilders
Friday, 18 March 2011, 2:37 pm | Tertiary Education Union
If the minister wants to rebuild trades he needs to stop the widespread redundancies of trades tutors says TEU national president Sandra Grey. The minister of tertiary education Steven Joyce announced yesterday that there would be an increased focus ... More >>
Auckland academics to protest distinguished alumni dinner
Friday, 4 March 2011, 10:27 am | Tertiary Education Union
University of Auckland academics will be handing out leaflets and holding placards outside their university's Distinguished Alumni dinner tonight in protest at the university's failure to negotiate with its staff. Their protest is part of escalating ... More >>
Academics turn down 4% pay, want better education instead
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 12:20 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Protecting the quality of teaching and research may cost academic staff at the University of Auckland a pay rise but they’re prepared to make this trade-off and use industrial action to achieve it. At meetings across every campus at the University of Auckland, ... More >>
90 day fire-at-will laws for workplaces that don't want them
Monday, 10 January 2011, 10:26 am | Tertiary Education Union
Government orders from the State Services Commission that public servants and government-employed workers should be forced to accept 90 day fire-at-will provisions are bizarre says TEU national secretary, Sharn Riggs. More >>
Changes to equity funding will hurt Māori and Pasifika
Friday, 19 November 2010, 1:47 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The minister of tertiary education Steven Joyce has decided to base next year's Equity Funding on 2009 enrolments rather actual enrolments. Because of the significant growth in student rolls at tertiary institutions across the country that means that ... More >>
$18M advertising for students they can’t take
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 12:06 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Universities, polytechnics and wānanga are spending millions of dollars advertising to students even though there are more potential students than there are student places in New Zealand. "Why would tertiary institutions spend all this public money ... More >>
Auckland University creates two classes of staff
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 11:15 am | Tertiary Education Union
The University of Auckland has hired over one hundred academics in the past few months under lesser terms and conditions than their colleagues doing the same work. This new casualised category of staff, Professional Teaching Fellows (PTFs), are mostly ... More >>
