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News 1/6 – Student Limits, Residence for Foreign Students and Pay Envy

In: Policy

1 Jun 2010

Someone turned up the news heat today. There are some great wee stories below.

Residence for Study This is a chunky Dominion Post story. NZVCC Chair Derek McCormack is calling for foreign student graduates to automatically get residency. Steven Joyce said no, but then said that he wanted to review the allocation and coordination of international education promotion [...]

ITP MECA Negotiations – What Next?

In: ITPs| Staff

25 Feb 2010

Six institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) have been renegotiating a multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) for academic staff with the Tertiary Education Union for almost a year now, but are stuck on some big issues. I thought it was time to have a look at why, so I’ll start off with the convoluted back story [...]


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