Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 4 Brett Alcock says his previous job at a privately owned tertiary institution was a string of short-term contracts. “Many teachers, including myself when I was there, have their contracts rolled over. But the fact that they are not on permanent contracts creates a pervasive [...]

Global educational benchmarking agency Quacquarelli Symonds, known as QS Stars, has evaluated Massey University’s performance and given it an overall rating of four stars out of five. While there is no mention of how much Massey paid QS for its ranking, Ireland’s University College Cork (UCC) last year said it [...]

Trainee and beginning teachers are angry over proposed changes to teacher training programmes at Massey University. In a paper entitled “College of Education Academic Reform”, the university is proposing radical change to initial teacher education. It proposes to discontinue all undergraduate teacher education by cutting its three-year Bachelor of Education [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 34 Massey University has sent its staff a glossy magazine encouraging them to set up regular donations back to the university. The direct-from-salary donations will all go to the Massey University Foundation – a registered charity that supports teaching, learning and facilities at Massey. “We [...]

Despite revelations that Massey University almost doubled its profit last year from $5.3m to $10.2m, its vice-chancellor Steve Maharey is denying allegations that the university is hoarding money.   “We’re well-managed, but don’t mistake that as we have the money coming from the Government to guarantee quality education forever,” he [...]

The employers at the five Ready2Go polytechnics (Whitireia, Wintec, BOPP, Unitec and NorthTec) have now finally agreed that they are indeed ‘ready to go’ and have agreed dates to negotiate with their respective TEU members. The first, Whitireia begins negotiations tomorrow (Friday) and the last gets underway on 3 August. Weltec has [...]

A long queue of publicly funded tertiary education institutions and organisations are, or have recently been employing the services of private lobbying and consultancy company Saunders Unsworth. Saunders Unsworth lists among its past and present clients Massey University, Otago University, the Metro Polytechnics, Victoria University of Wellington, and the Industry [...]

The president of Massey University’s extramural students’ association, Ralph Springett, is campaigning to change the priorities of the government’s Tertiary Education Strategy, which he says are undermining second chance learners’ access to education. Mr Springett says the strategy does not address the need, particularly for women, for accessible second chance education [...]

The National Business Review (NBR) reports that TEU’s victory in the employment court last fortnight, where two members from Massey University won the right to see information about why they were being chosen for redundancy, is “likely to send shock-waves though the country’s workforce and change the way employment decisions [...]

Earlier this week the Employment Court issued a long-awaited decision in favour of two respected Massey University academics and TEU members, Martin Wrigley and Terry Kelly. Both were dismissed following a “selection process” which involved the university choosing which academics to keep, and which to dismiss. The decision directly challenges [...]