The Christchurch Press reports that CPIT and Lincoln both expect to have about the same number of  fulltime-equivalent students by the end of the year that they had in 2010. Lincoln University had 802 domestic fulltime-equivalent students for semester one. It was the same number as last year and four more than [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 10 Mere days into its stewardship under a new vice-chancellor Lincoln University is proposing to restructure its Faculty of Commerce and make five senior tutors redundant. The change proposal document states that the university wants to disestablish all existing senior tutor positions in the faculty. [...]

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 [...]

The newly founded Phoenix University of Canterbury opened for business this week, signifying the start of a new era of tertiary education for Christchurch. The new universitech, which was the result of a ministerially-driven merger of Canterbury-based tertiary institutions, had until this week been provisionally trading under the name LinctaburyPIT. [...]

We hope Dr Andrew West, the new vice chancellor at Lincoln University, will see his role as leader of academics and of local people said TEU national president Dr Sandra Grey upon hearing of Dr West’s appointment. “We congratulate Dr West and are looking forward to working well with him.” [...]

TEU believes that the minister of tertiary education’s cryptic remarks last week about a possible merger of Canterbury’s tertiary institutions are most likely related to pressure he is putting on the three institutions to investigate sharing back-office functions, including payroll systems, office systems and student management systems. Last week the [...]

Employers at Christchurch’s tertiary institutions need to be extra vigilant to eliminate the causes of workplace stress this year says TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs. “The adrenaline and determination to overcome the odds that helped people get through the ongoing earthquakes will eventually recede and be replaced with the day-to-day [...]

Radio NZ reports Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has asked Canterbury’s three main tertiary providers to examine all possible options, including mergers, as they look towards the next 20 years. Mr Joyce told RNZ the earthquakes mean Canterbury University, Lincoln University and the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology have to take [...]

The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) could use ‘Compacts’ with individual tertiary education institutions in conjunction with performance linked funding to drive the government’s economic growth strategy. In its publicly released, but highly censored, briefing to the incoming minister TEC notes that overseas jurisdictions such as Australia and some US states [...]

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 [...]