A thousand people have so far signed a nascent petition calling on the minister of tertiary education to preserve democratic staff, student and community representation on university councils. The minister, Mr Joyce, last week said he wants to reform university councils, and that they currently are large and unwieldy. In 2009 the [...]

Lobbying efforts by TEU and others mean that the Tertiary Education Commission will change the way it calculates and reports on PBRF ranking. Currently researchers rated R or R (NE) are included in a tertiary institution’s Average Quality Score. TEU argued that this led to a number of universities targeting R [...]

inister of tertiary education, Steven Joyce, says he wants to reform university councils. He says they are large and unwieldy. In 2009 the government pushed through similar changes for polytechnic councils. Those changes reduced councils down to eight members, four of whom are directly appointed by the minister and the remaining four are [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 15 A part time student at the University of Canterbury says the university’s plan to close its theatre program will cost her $4000 of fees for a degree she can no longer complete. Sarah has told the student campaign You are UC: “If I was a [...]

Minister of tertiary education, Steven Joyce told The Press he wants to reform university councils. ”They’re potentially a bit large and unwieldy,” Mr Joyce said. ”I want to see the universities take a more entrepreneurial approach.” The government pushed through similar changes for polytechnic councils in 2009.  Those changes reduced councils down [...]

Reforming university councils could lead to the same sort of waste and bureaucracy that similar reforms created in polytechnics, warns TEU national president Sandra Grey. When the government imposed business-style reform on polytechnic councils two years ago, experienced, democratically-chosen, community people were sacked from the boards and replaced with expensive [...]

The University of Canterbury was trying to offload its theatre and film studies department to the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) according to documents TEU obtained under the Official Information Act this week. The university told staff and students on 26 March that it proposed to close theatre and [...]

Tertiary Update No 15 Vol 13 You Are UC, the student campaign against cuts to the College of Arts at the University of Canterbury, is holding a barbeque complete with theatrical entertainment to protest against the cuts today. You Are UC will also becollecting signatures for a petition against the cuts. [...]

Hi, My name is Nicki Wilford and I am the new TEU organiser for Victoria University of Wellington (except for the Faculty of Education where my colleague Phil Dyhrberg is the organiser) and Whitireia Community Polytechnic. I have  worked at VUW before as the education coordinator for VUWSA representing students [...]