One in three university students say a lack of money is affecting what they eat, according to the results of a new Massey University/Westpac survey.  The study by the Fin-Ed Centre (Financial Education and Research Centre – a joint venture between Massey and Westpac), found a third of responding students from Massey said they had [...]

Minister for Tertiary Education Skills and Employment, Steven Joyce, says he has attended a number of meetings with Metro ITP representatives at which someone from the private lobbying firm Saunders Unsworth was also present. The Metro Group is a peak body representing six public polytechnics; Unitec, CPIT, Wintec, Otago Polytechnic, Weltec and MIT. Saunders Unsworth [...]

When asked this weekend whether a merger between Lincoln and Massey universities is ‘the most obvious outcome’, Massey vice-chancellor Steve Maharey said the door is open. During an interview on TVNZ’s Q+A show Steve Maharey said: “Well, from our point of view, the door is open. But from the point of view of Lincoln, of [...]

Massey University has contacted us to say there were some errors in the Manawatu Standard story upon which we based our Tertiary Update story yesterday: Vice-chancellor Steve Maharey has made the following statement to staff at the university: The living wage: The university has taken no position on this issue.  During an interview on Radio NZ National, to discuss the living wage concept I indicated that it was a very [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 15 Massey University will likely be next to follow The Warehouse by offering its workers a “living wage” according to the Manawatu Standard earlier this week. University spokesman James Gardiner told the Standard the university would meet tertiary union representatives at the pay negotiations table with an offer to match [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 14 Massey University staff, whose minimum pay rates are more than $5 per hour below the living wage, deserve better pay says local TEU organiser Dean Scott. “Massey is a big public employer in the Manawatu and it has a leadership role in its community ensuring local people are paid a living [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 8 Massey University is working to prevent workplace bullying and harassment. The project is a notable feature of the ongoing implementation of the recommendations from the Pay and Employment Equity Review, which the university undertook in cooperation with TEU in 2010. The university began its project by changing its ’20/20′ [...]

The Manawatu Standard reports that Massey University continues to lobby to increase its students fees above the four percent limit imposed by the Government’s annual maximum fee movement policy. The vice-chancellor Steve Maharey says the university’s student fee income was $7.2 million short of budget last year and that shortfall was partly due to government-enforced [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 4 TEU is calling on tertiary education employers to back the Living Wage campaign, saying that too many employees working at tertiary institutions are on wages and salaries that make it hard to care for a family. TEU’s national president Lesley Francey says many tertiary education employees, such as library [...]

Radio New Zealand reports that Massey University has lost $1.6 million of government funding this year because of the government’s new funding rules which allow the Tertiary Education Commission to deduct subsidies from institutions that perform badly on course and qualification completion league tables. The commission has not yet made details of the cuts public, [...]