Hui-ā-Motu will be held at WITT, New Plymouth, from Friday 23 March to Sunday 25 March. TEU Travel Policy This policy applies to all members of the Tertiary Education Union and may be changed from time to time. This policy is current from March 2011. 1)         Introduction TEU travel policy [...]

Some polytechnics are reporting strong enrolments and say relatively high unemployment is continuing to drive people into tertiary education according to Radio New Zealand According to Radio NZ tertiary institutions in New Plymouth, Wellington, Porirua and Auckland say enrolments are between 5 percent and 40 percent higher than at the [...]

Western Institute of Technology in Taranaki (WITT) is hoping to capitalise on the abrupt closure of the Practical Education Institute (PEI), a New Plymouth-based private training establishment. The Taranaki Daily Newsreports that student enrolments at WITT are up by 50 percent compared to this time last year and chief executive [...]

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 [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 21 A petition calling on the chief executives of Whitireia, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, NorthTec, Unitec and Wintec to start negotiating with their staff is drawing a steady stream of signatures since it was launched yesterday. Since being abandoned by the Western Institute of Technology [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 17 TEU has won another significant legal decision against the five polytechnic employers who are refusing to negotiate site based collective agreements. Last month a full bench of the Employment Court ruled that Northtec, Unitec, Wintec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Whitireia were required to [...]

Five polytechnic employers, Unitec, Northtec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Whitireia and Wintec, have informed TEU that they are appealing the recent Employment Court decision that determined that TEU was legally entitled to initiate for site-based collective agreements at each of the five polytechnics. TEU has informed the employers’ lawyer that [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 13 The Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT) and TEU members have ratified a collective agreement that will give the union members a 0.75 percent pay rise effective from December last year, a further 2 percent pay rise from February this year, a pro [...]

TEU members at six polytechnics have won an important case before a full bench of the Employment Court that allows them to negotiate the type of employment agreement that they choose. Yesterday the court decided that TEU members at Northtec, Unitec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Wintec, Whitireia NZ and Western [...]