TEU has raised at an institute-wide level our concern about the ‘imperative’ contained in this and other proposals – in this case, that the Faculty must reduce the staff budget to save $248,904. Two key points need to be recorded here.  First, we seek an undertaking that there is a real [...]

Submission on the Proposed restructure of CELT-2.doc Download this file In summary we are very concerned that what is proposed will not deliver the increase that the Faculty management appear to assume it will, and it also tries to make specialists be in part generalists. These factors will make it [...]

A ‘beginners guide to voluntary redundancy’, the TEU submission on the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, the TEU submission on the Student Services Directorate, submission on the Faculty of Nursing and Health Science, and Selection Criteria Feedback. a beginner’s guide to voluntary redundancy.doc Download this file Faculty of Education [...]

TEU submission on Manukau Institute of Technology’s proposal to restructure and downsize the Student Affairs Directorate Open publication – Free publishing – More manukau

TEU has raised at an institute-wide level our concern about the ‘imperative’ contained in this and other proposals – in this case, that the “Faculty must reduce the staff  to save $1.2M. Two key points need to be recorded here.  First, we seek an undertaking that there is a staffing [...]

TEU has raised at an institute-wide level our concern about the ‘imperatives’ contained in this and other proposals – in this case, that the “Faculty must reduce the staff budget, and if there is any change to the staffing numbers from what is proposed, that others will then have to [...]

Anxiety is high at Manukau Institute of Technology with every department and faculty announcing “rightsizing” reviews over the next fortnight. The chief executive announced in September that he would undertake reviews across the whole polytechnic, starting with the senior leadership team. But it is only now, at the busiest time [...]

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 [...]

Industry training standards body ETITO and the engineers’ union EPMU are both questioning the country’s supply of skilled workers to service and maintain the government’s planned fibre optic networks. ETITO, which sets the qualification standards for telecommunications workers, says that industry needs to think about training people now rather than [...]

If the minister wants to rebuild trades he needs to stop the widespread redundancies of trades tutors says TEU national president Sandra Grey. The minister of tertiary education Steven Joyce announced yesterday that there would be an increased focus on trades at polytechnics to cope with higher levels of demand [...]