Lincoln proposal rushed and flawed
TEU released its submission on Lincoln University’s wide-ranging qualification reform proposal today, outlining its concerns that the university’s proposal is rushed and flawed. TEU members and others...
View ArticleLincoln backs away from radical qualifications change
Lincoln University decided yesterday that it would delete only two of its undergraduate qualifications instead of the 13 it initially proposed a few weeks ago. The university had been proposing to...
View ArticleHui backs ‘Feed the Kids’ Bill
TEU’s annual meeting of Māori members, Hui-ā-Motu, is backing the private member’s bill before Parliament that aims to provide all children in decile 1 and 2 schools with free, nutritious breakfast and...
View ArticleWITT votes on new pay system
TEU members at the Western Institute of Technology in Taranaki (WITT) are voting on a new, more transparent, pay system. Negotiations at WITT were late to start last year while the polytechnic dealt...
View ArticleCost of education races ahead of inflation
Statistics New Zealand released its Consumer Price Index inflation statistics yesterday and revealed that the cost of tertiary education rose four times as fast as CPI for other goods and services....
View ArticlePossible new employment law removes workers’ right to choose
The government’s proposed new Employment Relations Amendment bill will be not only be bad for workers but, in the case of tertiary education, it will be bad for students, says TEU president Lesley...
View ArticleHealth and safety recommendations not a moment too soon
New health and safety recommendations come not a moment too soon, says TEU national president Lesley Francey. Ms Francey welcomed the Independent Taskforce on Workplace Health and Safety’s report,...
View ArticleA few thoughts on the essay cheating story this weekend.
Here’s TEU’s response to the essay cheating issue that has been in the media over the weekend: Cheating is not a widespread problem as far as we know. No academic would willingly turn a blind eye to...
View ArticleOpportunity not austerity
Long term under-funding of tertiary education since 2009 is taking away opportunities to learn from students and future students, say TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs, upon hearing news that the...
View ArticleOECD shows NZ’s lagging investment in public education
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 21 The OECD released its annual Education at a Glance indicators this week with a warning that countries around the world, and New Zealand specifically, are investing less...
View ArticleSurvey shows widespread insecure work in tertiary education
A survey of nearly 2000 TEU members shows insecure work, casual and fixed-term employment agreements are widespread in tertiary education. One in six respondents said they were currently in an...
View ArticleTreasury misses the point of tertiary education
Treasury’s bizarre working paper Private Returns to Tertiary Education, which it released this week, seems to argue that New Zealand should move from emulating equitable and economically successful...
View ArticleAustralian figures on soaring student debt mirror New Zealand
Joint Media release: 18 July 2013 Figures released by Universities Australia this week show that student debt in Australia has soared by almost 30 per cent between 2006-2012, raising concerns among New...
View ArticleGovt responsible for varsity ranking slide
The latest QS World University Rankings show a continuing trend of New Zealand universities sliding down the rankings ladder. “With more universities, and particularly more East Asian universities,...
View ArticleBig pay rises for vice-chancellors unjust
The University of Canterbury’s vice-chancellor, Rod Carr, received an increase in remuneration of more than $40,000 between the years 2011-12 and 2012-13 according to information released by the State...
View ArticleTEU University of Auckland Branch press release
The University of Auckland Council should weigh carefully the arguments for and against raising domestic student fees for 2014 by the maximum 4% allowed by the Ministry of Tertiary Education. The...
View ArticleReport: $1b to fix tertiary education
TEU launched its blueprint for repairing the damage to public tertiary education today, saying the government needs to restore $1billion of funding cuts. Te Kaupapa Whaioranga – the Blueprint for...
View ArticleDr Mike Joy receives academic freedom award
Massey University’s Dr Mike Joy received an award for his promotion of academic freedom and contribution to public education at TEU’s second annual awards ceremony tonight. Dr Mike Joy is best known as...
View ArticleTe Kaupapa Whaioranga report lays out challenge for 2014
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 39 TEU launched its blueprint for repairing the damage to public tertiary education this week, saying the government needs to restore $1 billion of funding cuts. Launched at...
View ArticleTertiary education underspend worsens funding cuts
It is a shame nearly $80 million that the Tertiary Education Commission could have spent on teaching went unspent, says TEU vice president James Houkāmau. The commission tabled its annual report to...
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