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University Strike Details Confirmed
Tuesday, 4 October 2022, 4:07 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is now in a position to confirm details of strike action our members will undertake at all eight universities this week. Last week, 87% of TEU members who participated in strike ballots, across eighteen ... More >>
University Staff To Strike Nationwide
Monday, 3 October 2022, 11:36 am | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union members, along with colleagues from PSA and E Tū, have voted overwhelmingly to strike at all eight of Aotearoa’s universities. The vote followed a series of paid stop work meetings twelve days ago, where members ... More >>
Pay Equity Claims Formally Delivered
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 12:37 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union members have formally delivered gender pay equity claims to university employers across Aotearoa today. The multi-union and multi-employer claims are being jointly raised by TEU, PSA and TIASA and target ... More >>
University Staff To Vote On Strike Action
Wednesday, 21 September 2022, 3:38 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union members at all eight of Aotearoa’s universities attended a series of paid two-hour union meetings today, and almost unanimously asked for sector-wide strike action ballots to be held for each of their ... More >>
WelTec/Whitireia Music Closure A Warning Sign For Creative Arts
Tuesday, 20 September 2022, 2:03 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is calling on the government and the TEC to heed the warning signs as WelTec/Whitireia proposes to bring the curtain down on 31 years of applied music provision in the Wellington region. TEU says the ... More >>
AUT Proposes To Join Race To The Bottom
Monday, 5 September 2022, 2:47 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is dismayed to learn of Te Wānanga Aronui O Tamaki Makau Rau | Auckland University of Technology’s plans to cut as many as 230 jobs by year’s end – especially so, considering rationale that includes ... More >>
BERL Data Shows It’s Past Time For University Staff To Get A Real Pay Rise
Monday, 22 August 2022, 12:25 pm | Tertiary Education Union
A new report shows Aotearoa’s university staff have been getting an increasingly raw deal from their employers over the past twelve years. Earlier this year, Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union commissioned BERL (Business and Economic Research ... More >>
TEU Calls On Te Pūkenga Management To Look After Staff So They Can Look After Students
Monday, 15 August 2022, 2:40 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is vowing to keep the pressure on Te Pūkenga management in the wake of the vocational education leaders releasing its much-anticipated proposed operating structure today. TEU’s members will be ... More >>
What Society Thinks I Do
Monday, 11 July 2022, 1:25 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union are lifting the lid on a clandestine campaign they have been quietly running over the past six weeks with the aim of changing public perceptions of university workers. TEU members have been chalking pavements ... More >>
Curriculum Change Process Rushed And Disrespectful
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 1:51 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Shortages of nursing and social work staff in Aotearoa can only be met with strong training programmes. However, current moves to consolidate the curriculum in the new network of vocational education provision – Te Pūkenga - will fall short of ... More >>
Tertiary Education Out In The Cold Once Again
Thursday, 19 May 2022, 4:25 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union and the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations are disappointed to see the tertiary education sector largely ignored once again in the Labour government’s fifth Budget since taking office in 2017. ... More >>
TEU Welcomes The First Polytehnics To Be Fully Integrated Into Te Pūkenga
Friday, 8 April 2022, 3:08 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Pūkenga Chief Executive Stephen Town has announced WINTEC and Toi Ohomai will be dissolved from 31 May 2022 and become fully integrated into the new network of vocational education and training. Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union’s ... More >>
TEU Pays Our Respects To Moana Jackson
Thursday, 31 March 2022, 3:25 pm | Tertiary Education Union
He iringa kawakawa, he rau mahara, he hotuhotu manawa, he roimata ka maringi. Kua riro tō mātou rangatira a Moana ki tua. Heoi, e kore te mahara e makere noa engari, ka noho i te whatumanawa. Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is deeply ... More >>
NorthTec Continues To Undermine Regional Tertiary Education Provision
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 2:10 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is yet again dismayed to learn of the further erosion of vocational tertiary education provision in one of Aotearoa’s most deprived regions. NorthTec has pressed ahead with a proposal to end its applied ... More >>
Survey Report Shows Tertiary Education At Breaking Point
Friday, 1 October 2021, 11:54 am | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union has released the third iteration of its ‘Tertiary Lives’ survey reports, looking at the impact of COVID-19 on those working in the tertiary education sector. More >>
Unitec Cuts Shine Light On Broken System
Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 2:16 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is once again dismayed but not surprised to note yet another Aotearoa New Zealand polytechnic attempting to cut its way to growth despite this repeatedly failed strategy contradicting the wishes of its parent ... More >>
Conference Demands Action To Save Academic Freedom
Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 6:15 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union, in conjunction with NZUSA, Massey University and Academic Freedom Aotearoa, have concluded an invigorating two-day online conference with participants expressing a determination to ‘keep the fire ... More >>
Academic freedom more important than ever
Friday, 27 August 2021, 2:59 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Safety From Threatening Behaviour Is A Work Right
Friday, 13 August 2021, 3:14 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is disturbed to note the continued escalation of harassment, and racist and threatening behaviour directed at academics in Aotearoa . An alarming amount of this behaviour is directed at female academics ... More >>
PBRF Changes – Government Fiddles While The Tertiary Sector Burns
Friday, 2 July 2021, 9:55 am | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union is frustrated with the lack of change heralded by the review of the Performance Based Research Fund . National Secretary Sandra Grey is angry that TEU’s voice has been largely ignored. She says “tinkering ... More >>
