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 [...]

Lincoln University TEU Branch AGM – 21 September 2011 It’s election year – Who cares? Sandra Grey, President Tertiary Education Union Commentators are lamenting the fact that with the world cup rugby on, that’s where all attention is diverted. This means no one cares about the election at the moment. [...]

Councils for many tertiary institutions are again debating fee rises for their students. With continued government cuts to funding and high inflation this year, many are opting to increase fees by the maximum allowable four percent. At the University of Auckland this provoked the protest de jour of the month [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 38 The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has announced that it will adopt three of TEU’s proposed recommendations for conducting the 2012 PBRF Quality Evaluation of earthquake affected PBRF eligible staff in the Canterbury region. The commission has agreed, following feedback from TEU and the affected TEIs, to [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 35 Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce yesterday afternoon guaranteed that the University of Canterbury, Lincoln University and CPIT would be funded for the number of students they had prior to the September 2010 earthquake. Prior to his announcement nearly a thousand people had already signed [...]

Tertiary education providers outside Christchurch should not be advertising in Christchurch to encourage students away from Canterbury according to TEU national president Sandra Grey. Dr Grey told The Press that tertiary instituions need to rethink their marketing strategies under such “extraordinary circumstances”. “It’s about showing respect for Christchurch and trying to [...]

TEU welcomes this afternoon’s commitment by the minister of tertiary education to guarantee that the University of Canterbury, Lincoln University and CPIT will be funded for the number of students they had prior to the September 2010 earthquake. “Its good to see the government responding to public campaigning from tertiary education staff [...]

Women at several TEU branches will be celebrating the 118th anniversary of women’s suffrage next Monday. TEU women at both Victoria University and Lincoln University are hosting Suffrage Day breakfasts, while Waiariki polytechnic women have organised a series of events during the day with a strong focus on encouraging women [...]