Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 11 Data from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) shows the government has made almost a direct transfer of $25 million from publicly owned polytechnics to privately-owned tertiary education providers (PTEs). Government funding for polytechnics fell from last year to this year by $29 million dollars, or 4.7 percent.  Meanwhile funding [...]

Hawkes Bay Today reported last week that more jobs and student places will be cut from EIT this year, following a $2 million funding cut that resulted in 10 redundancies, 270 fewer student places and course closures last year. The cuts are a response to the government’s decision late last year to take $38 million [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 41 TEU members are holding protests and meetings at polytechnics around the country today to convince the government to put more money into foundation studies education at polytechnics. The protests coincide with media coverage (from Auckland’s New Zealand Herald to Dunedin’s Otago Daily Times) of the millions of dollars the government has [...]

Following UCOL’s announcements of massive course closures and staff cuts as a result of government funding cuts, other polytechnics are now also announcing course closures and staff cuts. The Nelson Mail reported that Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology has lost about 100 full-time student places, or about $600,000 of funding. “We are looking at what our options [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 39 Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) is planning to cut courses and staff after the government’s decision to strip tens of millions of dollars of foundation-level funding from regional polytechnics around New Zealand. Overall, EIT told staff it is losing approximately 320 equivalent full-time students at level 1 and level [...]

Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced the ten new Trades Academies, which are to open around New Zealand from 2012, providing practical skills training for secondary school students while allowing them to study for NCEA credits and tertiary qualifications. Mrs Tolley also announced this week that Christchurch is to have a new Trades Academy, and [...]

Education consultant, ED Insider, has sourced the papers considered by the Minister for Tertiary Education and Cabinet regarding the merger of the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) and Tairāwhiti Polytechnic (Tairāwhiti). The papers show that EIT had originally asked for $5 million capital funding and 400 EFTS growth in their business case, but were provided with [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 46 TEU members at Napier’s Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) are voting on whether to accept a new collective agreement that the union says will help protect academics from losing work to staff on a lower pay scale. EIT has a new academic position, called a learning facilitator, whose role [...]

Submission of the Tertiary Education Union On the public consultation document “Tairāwhiti Polytechnic and Eastern Institute of Technology – case for merger” 12 November 2010 For further information please contact: JoScott Policy Analyst Ph: 021-844-526 Email: jo.scott@teu.ac.nz Introduction The Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa (TEU) welcomes this opportunity to respond to the consultation document “Tairāwhiti [...]

Tairāwhiti Polytechnic chief executive Judy Campbell says her institution will not survive financially if a merger with Eastern Institute of Technology does not go ahead. The Gisborne Herald reports that she told the Tairāwhiti Development Trust the present financial position for Tairāwhiti was unsustainable. Ms Campbell says a link with EIT would benefit students and increase [...]