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News 16/7 – Joyce Day II, Wintec Carpark and TEU Corner

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| Research| Staff| Strategy & Policy| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities

16 Jul 2010

Joyce’s Ripples The ripples from Joyce’s speech continue to expand. Nelson teaching students, studying with the University of Canterbury, are happy with Joyce’s look at student services fees. They had already protested, and seemingly gained a reduction, in Canterbury’s fees, given that most of their time is spent in Nelson, where Canterbury has very few [...]

News 15/7 – It’s Steven Joyce Day!

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| Research| Strategy & Policy| Universities

15 Jul 2010

Steven Joyce Day I’m naming today Steven Joyce day because all the big stories today stem from his speech yesterday at Victoria University on tertiary education policy.

The Dom Post focused on the review of universities’ big extra student support fees (UCOL too from memory) as did the NZ Herald (NZPA had a piece too). VUW, AUT and [...]

News 9/7 – Is Massey Going to Get Dirty?

In: Facilities & Equipment| ITPs| Staff| Students| Universities

9 Jul 2010

Massey Dirty, For Sale? The Service and Food Workers’ Union is protesting a proposed major cut in cleaning at Massey University. Hours will be cut generally and there will be a term-time cleaning focus, with only 31 weeks of the year guaranteed for work (presumably some staff will clean year round). Massey is also selling [...]

News 6/7 – Staff Shortage? Bibles in Timaru. New Quals Framework.

In: ITPs| Research| Staff| Students| Universities

6 Jul 2010

Staff Shortage? Sharn Riggs of the TEU has posted over at very popular left-blog The Standard that we need staff to teach new students. It’s a well-researched post arguing that rising student numbers should be matched by rising staff numbers. I disagree that there should be an automatic link but it’s good to see issues [...]

News 2/7 – Security Scandal, PTE $$ and Job Cuts

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITOs| ITPs| Quality Assurance| Research| Staff| Students| Universities

2 Jul 2010

There are two posts coming up this morning. At 10.30, a story on new degrees by Harrods and Wal-Mart will be posted. At 11.45, a video with some food for thought on engaging young people will go up. If you want something now, the news below is full of good stories and there has been [...]

News 1/7 – Allowances Boom, ITP MECA and Skill Shortages

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1 Jul 2010

Allowances Boom in 09 Steven Joyce was on Morning Report yesterday talking about student allowances increases in 2009, while NZUSA put out a release about it too. Allowances eligibility was loosened, while enrolments went up.
Tainui College The -Tainui College for Research and Development has its first academic director. The buildings were built ten years ago but [...]

Guest Post: Missing Out on the Chance to Learn

In: Funding| Universities

29 Jun 2010

This guest post is by Tom Ryan, TEU President.
Recently New Zealand school principals announced that they were worried that pupils leaving their school would end up on the dole rather than in tertiary education study.  “How do you tell someone who has worked really hard to give themselves the chance of going to university that [...]

News 25/6 – PEDA, Low Pass Rates & Dirtiest Flat

In: Funding| ICT| ITPs| Industry Input| Research| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities

25 Jun 2010

PEDA Affair Hits Tertiary You may have heard of the Pacific Economic Development Agency allocation in the Budget – $4.8m for a new body in a non-contestable allocation. It will cause National some problems for a while yet. Anyway, Auckland providers are starting to plan bids for the money, which will include “subcontracting with established [...]

Can Massey’s Management Close a Course?

In: Staff| Students| Universities

22 Jun 2010

I wrote last week that the TEU was challenging the closure of Massey University’s teacher education course in Hawkes Bay (run from EIT’s campus). The details are below.
The union wrote to the chancellor last week saying that it believes the decision is primarily an “academic matter” as per section 182(2) (a) of the Education Act [...]

ITP MECA Debate Rolls On

In: ITPs| Staff

26 May 2010

The Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) amongst six ITPs and members of the Tertiary Education Union is still not settled. The last contract expired in about March 2009 and negotiations have been ongoing since then. I reviewed the issues in detail in late February, so I won’t go over it again. Since that post, the TEU [...]


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