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 [...]

As part of its on-going campaign for Pay and Employment Equity TEU is supporting the CTU’s petition to encourage workers to invite Department of Labour inspectors into their workplaces to check the time and wage records of their employers for any discrimination. CTU President, Helen Kelly said “The Ministers of [...]

TEU members at the University of Otago have begun and then, quickly, finished their collective agreement negotiations, settling on a 3 percent increase in salaries for both academics and general staff and a one-year term. The agreement also contains some enhancements for general staff and extended coverage, so that more [...]

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 University of Canterbury will send up to 500 of its students to study at the University of Adelaide for the next four months because of the Christchurch earthquake, according to TVNZ. University of Canterbury vice-chancellor Rod Carr has announced the university has accepted an offer from the University of [...]

The Otago Daily Times reports that the Foundation Studies Ltd company owned by the University of Otago is preparing for a second round of redundancies. The company, which offers English language and general tuition to international and domestic students, cut 3.6 positions in August. Now it is reviewing management and [...]

Students at Otago University have voted Joneen Walker onto a list of their top ten lecturers for 2010. But, ironically Ms Walker will be taking voluntary redundancy next year after a restructuring of the university’s College of Education which aims to lift the university’s PBRF rating by placing a greater [...]

Tertiary education staff in Otago continue to lose jobs as the university and polytechnic push on with their restructuring plans. The Otago Daily Times reports that the University of Otago’s College of Education will designate 15 jobs redundant by the end of next year, with more position losses signalled for [...]

The University of Canterbury is closed until 13 September and CPIT is closed until further notice. Lincoln Univerity will be closed on Monday 6 Sept for a health and safety assessment. Following that Lincoln will advise if there are to be further closures. The more details of the University of [...]

TVNZ reported this week that the government is looking at cutting the number of people training to be physiotherapists. The decision is likely because patient part-charges for ACC treatment introduced last year have led to a significant number of physiotherapists being made redundant. ACC says that there has been a [...]