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 [...]

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. [...]

Press Release Parker’s generosity a lesson for us all Dr George Parker, manager of Te Puna Toi, the research arm of Canterbury University’s Theatre and Film Studies programme, has rejected a pay increase from the University of Canterbury. The pay increase would have seen Parker’s salary leap from $7000 to [...]

Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce told the Christchurch Press he will not intervene to prevent the University of Canterbury from closing theatre and film studies, American studies and cultural studies. The minister was responding to an open letter from TEU last week asking him to provide the financial help so the departments could continue. [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 9 Nine full time-equivalent staff will lose their jobs and more than 150 students will lose their majors and programmes at the University of Canterbury according to an announcement by the vice chancellor, Dr Rod Carr this week. The vice-chancellor told staff at the university [...]

Cc:  Dr Rod Carr, vice-chancellor of the University of Canterbury 28 March 2012 Dear Mr Joyce, We write to you to deplore the proposed closure of entire programmes and majors at the University of Canterbury.  We warned you last year that, without your intervention and support, many staff at the university [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 8 Employment negotiations for thousands of university staff at seven of New Zealand’s eight universities will begin in three months’ time, and union members are already working out what the main issues they need to see addressed to improve their working life. One of the [...]

Tertiary institutions are in a constant state of restructuring says TEU deputy secretary Nanette Cormack. Last week TEU’s national council heard that there are 59 reviews affecting 500 jobs currently underway across 17 different tertiary education institutions. “500 members are about 5 percent of our membership. When one in twenty [...]