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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The document below is the proposed collective employment agreement between TEU members and Tairāwhiti Polytechnic (with tracked changes from the previous document marked in). Open publication – Free publishing – More tairawhiti Thanks to Velvet Android @ Flickr for the photo

TEU’s annual General Staff Day has its roots in the very successful General Staff Day organised by predecessor union AUS in 2008.  The day celebrates the contribution that general staff make to the life of tertiary institutions and to the work of the union.  As such, the day is primarily [...]

The Gisborne Herald reported over Easter that Tairāwhiti Polytechnic has announced a “collaboration” with Eastern Institute of Technology and it was possible that the two institutions could merge. The Herald said that the collaboration was being driven by funding cuts to the sector. Tairāwhiti Polytechnic council chairman Geoff Milner told [...]

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The Hawke’s Bay” Today newspaper reports that Massey University is reviewing whether it should continue to provide its Bachelor of Education (primary) and teacher aide certificate programmes through the Eastern Institute of Technology.”  Massey University’s College of Education has had a base at EIT since 2007 when it signed a memorandum [...]