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Unsurprising End To Lincoln-AgResearch Merger
Monday, 8 June 2009, 2:47 pm | Tertiary Education Union
“We’re not surprised that the Lincoln - AgResearch merger has been abandoned,” said TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs. “We’ve felt throughout the last few months that staff at Lincoln University were not being shown enough information from ... More >>
Minister's Comments Reveal Economic Vandalism
Sunday, 31 May 2009, 1:16 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Minister of Education Anne Tolley has shown not just a lack of empathy but a failure to understand economics according to TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs. More >>
Wrong choice for learning our way out of recession
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 4:12 pm | Tertiary Education Union
“Cutting the funding supporting academic salaries in universities will have major ramifications for the future of research and learning in New Zealand” says TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs. That money was introduced to help New Zealand retain ... More >>
Govt prepares for embarrassment on world stage
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 10:01 am | Tertiary Education Union
The New Zealand government is preparing to explain to an international forum why it intends to move backwards on women’s rights at work. An official New Zealand delegation, including the Minister of Labour, Kate Wilkinson, is preparing to attend ... More >>
17 tertiary education pay equity reviews affected
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 11:20 am | Tertiary Education Union
The government needs to show its commitment to women with more than just words says TEU women’s vice president, Sandra Grey, following its announcement that it will be disestablishing the Department of Labour’s Pay and Employment Equity Unit (PaEE). ... More >>
Fiji should reinstate sacked teacher unionist
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 9:40 am | Tertiary Education Union
TEU president Tom Ryan says the Fijian government should reinstate sacked teacher, Tevita Koroi. Fijian Teachers’ Association President, Mr. Tevita Koroi, was dismissed last week from his position as principal of Nasinu Secondary School. Mr. Koroi was ... More >>
‘Ghost’ students abandoned by tertiary system
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 3:57 pm | Tertiary Education Union
“Tertiary institutions need to take more responsibility for students who fail to turn up to courses they have enrolled in”, said TEU president, Dr Tom Ryan. He was responding to a Ministry of Education report, released yesterday, which shows ... More >>
MIT lecturers at work until 9.30pm
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 5:41 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Manukau Institute of Technology’s claim that it needs more flexibility to manage the teaching hours of lecturers is being rejected by TEU branch president, Lesley Francey. Ms Francey points out that under their collective employment agreement MIT ... More >>
Workload strike looms at MIT
Monday, 27 April 2009, 1:53 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Lecturing staff at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) will be taking industrial action this week. An overwhelming majority of TEU members at MIT have voted in favour of action to address increasing workloads. They are also opposing proposals that ... More >>
Bootcamp for students ignores real funding problem
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 10:23 am | Tertiary Education Union
It seems boot camps are not just for students who don’t want to be in education – they are also now for those who do. That’s the sentiment of TEU national secretary, Sharn Riggs, in response to a government proposal that school leavers be offered ... More >>
We need guarantee for youth, not private companies
Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 2:57 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The National-led government’s proposed Youth Guarantee Scheme, which aims to offer alternative education options for 16 and 17 year olds, needs to make sure it doesn’t move young adults out of our public education system simply so they can become a ... More >>
Sciences lecturers face redundancy at Massey
Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 10:02 am | Tertiary Education Union
News that Massey University intends to make six horticulture, agriculture and earth science staff redundant flies in the face of its own professed commitment to helping New Zealanders into jobs says TEU president Dr Tom Ryan. Massey University last week ... More >>
Workers need say on ACC board
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 5:07 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The government needs to act quickly to restore a workers’ perspective to the ACC board, says newly elected Tertiary Education Union president Dr Tom Ryan. “I’m very concerned that the ACC minister has not only removed the two worker representatives ... More >>
TEU welcomes training for nine day fortnights
Monday, 23 March 2009, 12:08 pm | Tertiary Education Union
“It’s great to see the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics of NZ (ITPNZ) offering free or low-cost training to people who opt into the government’s nine-day fortnight programme,” says Tertiary Education Union TEU national secretary Sharn ... More >>
The cost of everything and the value of nothing
Monday, 23 March 2009, 12:06 pm | Tertiary Education Union
“It’s appalling to see that the government‘s proposal to allow companies to swap holidays for cash is back on the table,” says Tertiary Education Union national secretary Sharn Riggs. More >>
We need job opportunities not job cuts
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 3:57 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The tertiary education minister needs to launch an open and wide ranging discussion about the future delivery of tertiary education along the lines of the Job Summit. Instead, she seems to be following through on a pre-election political vendetta by ... More >>
Massey VC "should heed his own words"
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 12:03 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Just as a review of Massey Wellington campus support staff has concluded with at least fourteen staff being given individual notice that unless they are successful in obtaining a position via redeployment they will be redundant in May the university’s ... More >>
Learning our way out of troubles
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:08 am | Tertiary Education Union
“John Key and Bill English’s first cabinet meeting of the year tomorrow needs to focus on investing in the future rather than cutting corners,” says Tertiary Education Union (TEU) national secretary, Sharn Riggs. More >>
Evidence before ideology
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 12:15 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The Tertiary Education Union (TEU), whose members include tertiary education academics, is concerned that the government’s proposal to overhaul home detention and parole laws is another sign it may be setting a bad precedent by pushing through policies ... More >>
Bombs teach the wrong lesson
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 9:03 am | Tertiary Education Union
New Zealand's Tertiary Education Union (TEU) is calling on the elected Israeli and Palestinian governments to respect the peaceful role that education institutions play in communities, and keep their war out of Palestine's schools and tertiary education ... More >>
