Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 8 Massey University is working to prevent workplace bullying and harassment. The project is a notable feature of the ongoing implementation of the recommendations from the Pay and Employment Equity Review, which the university undertook in cooperation with TEU in 2010. The university began its project by changing its ’20/20′ [...]

Radio New Zealand reports that Massey University has lost $1.6 million of government funding this year because of the government’s new funding rules which allow the Tertiary Education Commission to deduct subsidies from institutions that perform badly on course and qualification completion league tables. The commission has not yet made details of the cuts public, [...]

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 [...]

Data from the Tertiary Education Commission shows that government funding for metropolitan based polytechnics has fallen by 1 percent between 2010 and 2011, but it fell by a massive 11 percent, or $32 million, for regional polytechnics over the same period. With the exception of Eastern Institute of Technology, which merged with Tairāwhiti Polytechnic last [...]

Waiariki Institute of Technology may join the growing list of polytechnics to reach a settlement with TEU members in recent months, with a two year collective agreement that will increase union members’ pay by 1.5 percent this year and again next year. TEU members at Waiariki will vote on the proposed settlement next week. The [...]

As part of its on-going campaign for Pay and Employment Equity TEU is supporting the CTU’s petition to encourage workers to invite Department of Labour inspectors into their workplaces to check the time and wage records of their employers for any discrimination. CTU President, Helen Kelly said “The Ministers of Labour and Women’s Affairs have [...]

Women at several TEU branches will be celebrating the 118th anniversary of women’s suffrage next Monday. TEU women at both Victoria University and Lincoln University are hosting Suffrage Day breakfasts, while Waiariki polytechnic women have organised a series of events during the day with a strong focus on encouraging women to enrol for the upcoming [...]

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 $3.5 billion. Last year the [...]

Waiāriki Institute of Technology has reinstated a diploma course after it was mistakenly axed according to the Rotorua Daily Post. A group of students studying the institution’s Diploma in Interior Design contacted the Daily Post late last week after being told the diploma they had spent thousands of dollars to work towards would not be going [...]

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 figures reveal that Bay of [...]