Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 1 At least nine New Zealanders have joined a global boycott of Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific journal publisher. The protest has rapidly gained momentum since it began as an irate blog post at the end of January. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education [...]

TEU believes new academic timetables at the University of Canterbury are much better than first drafts, after it met with two assistant vice-chancellors earlier this week. Last week the Christchurch Press reported that academic staff were up in arms over changes to the way timetables are set, “forcing lecturers to [...]

Educators are critical of a plan by the University of Auckland and Teach First NZ to fast track 20 graduates into classrooms after just six weeks of teacher-specific training. The minister of education Hekia Parata is backing the scheme, but it is yet to receive sign-off from the Teachers Council [...]

Destiny Church ‘University’ could be just the beginning if the government’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPPA) trade negotiations conclude without proper public scrutiny. “Destiny’s outlandish ‘university’ makes a mockery of the public education responsibilities of New Zealand’s real universities, polytechnics and wānanga,” said TEU President Dr Sandra Grey. “Our public universities all [...]

TEU members at Victoria University of Wellington are meeting next week to consider calling for an international boycott on applying for any advertised academic positions at the university until the university’s senior management agrees to cease forced redundancies in pursuit of academic change. TEU organiser Michael Gilchrist says forced redundancies [...]

Twenty-four University of Canterbury staff will lose their jobs, after opting for voluntary redundancy, according to the Press. The soon-to-be redundant staff were responding to a request by vice-chancellor Rod Carr asking staff to consider taking voluntary redundancy as the university tries to restore its finances, after losing students because [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 44 Academic staff who are members of TEU will be voting on a new collective agreement over the next two weeks after their negotiating team reached an agreement with the vice-chancellor today. Academics at the university are currently all on individual employment agreements, after their [...]

General staff at the University of Auckland will vote shortly on a new collective agreement  that includes a commitment from the university to purse a “fair, objective, transparent and fiscally responsible remuneration model” and an agreement that TEU and the PSA will be involved in the development of the new [...]

Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) is disappointed that the Tertiary Education Commission has decided to cut all funding to pre-degree courses previously offered at universities around New Zealand. This decision has already affected students in the Wellington region through Victoria University’s decision to close its Certificate of University [...]

Negotiations for PSA and TEU general staff members at the University of Auckland resume today with mediation assistance. Union members have been negotiating for four months now, and are still awaiting a pay offer. TEU advocate Jane Kostanich says the union parties are ready to negotiate “but we need an [...]