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 [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 25 Ministry of Education statistics show the average surplus as a percentage of revenue at public tertiary education providers climbing dramatically from 1.9 percent in 2006 to 5.2 percent last year. In 2006 public tertiary education providers made a combined surplus of $66 million on revenue of [...]

President Tina Smith (PN) Ext 70013 021 919119 T.Smith@ucol.ac.nz Treasurer Michelle Waitoa Ext 70706 027 461 5500 M.Waitoa@ucol.ac.nz   Secretary Junette Ward (Wg) Ext 63893 021 250 4013 J.Ward2@ucol.ac.nz Women’s Rep Lorna Johnson (PN) Ext 70832 021 246 0668 L.Johnson@ucol.ac.nz Māori Rep Katarina Hina (Wg) Ext 60759 029 389 0610 [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 3 Polytechnics and one wānanga were big losers in this year’s Government’s Student Achievement Component (SAC) funding for the tertiary education sector. Figures released last year from the Tertiary Education Commission show that eight polytechnics will receive less SAC money this year than last. The [...]

All TEU women members from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Te Tari Puna Ora/NZ Childcare Association, UCOL and  Massey University are warmly invited. TEU Office, on the Massey Turitea campus.Monday 13 December, from 4.15 onwardsDrinks and nibbles provided TEU national women’s officer will speak briefly on Pay and Employment Equity. TEU [...]

Late November 2010 – Vol 4 Friday 5th of November saw the team return to the bargaining table on your behalf.  We tabled the member response from the 4 feedback meetings and e-mails and were given further information by UCOL management related to the financial situation and pressures from TEC [...]

Welcome to our first newsletter for 2010 – something we want to become a regular communication and up-date tool to keep in touch and reduce e-mail traffic. Branch AGM This was held on 10 August by video conference and 27 members attended across the 3 campuses. The new branch office [...]

The Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards 2010 ceremony was hosted by minister Steven Joyce at Parliament last night. Overall winner from the eleven finalists was Marty Vreede, senior lecturer in printmaking at UCOL Whanganui. Recipient of the inaugural award for teaching in a kaupapa Māori context was Te Kahautu [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 25 TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs says it seems irregular that the minister of tertiary education, Steven Joyce, would openly suggest that Wanganui Council sever the links between its Glass School and UCOL so that it could be run as private business, or PTE. Ms [...]

Māori Party MP Hone Harawira has asked the minister of tertiary education Steven Joyce to explain the procedures tertiary education institutions have to comply with before disposing of any assets that are surplus to their needs. Mr Harawira used his question in parliament yesterday to find out if those assets are [...]