TEU members at Victoria University of Wellington are meeting next week to consider calling for an international boycott on applying for any advertised academic positions at the university until the university’s senior management agrees to cease forced redundancies in pursuit of academic change. TEU organiser Michael Gilchrist says forced redundancies [...]

Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) is disappointed that the Tertiary Education Commission has decided to cut all funding to pre-degree courses previously offered at universities around New Zealand. This decision has already affected students in the Wellington region through Victoria University’s decision to close its Certificate of University [...]

Victoria University has sent letters to some academic staff telling them that they could cost the university $3 million in PBRF funding if just one of them classifies as research inactive in the next PBRF round.   The letter informs staff that the employer will be initiating a Performance Improvement [...]

Sandra Grey, National President, NZTEU  Melbourne, 7 October 2011 New Zealand is in the middle of Rugby World Cup fever. In every city and town I visit, there are signs welcoming visiting teams and supporters; events to ensure they enjoy their time in New Zealand; and, of course plenty of All Blacks [...]

In July, Victoria University management announced a new set of “change proposals”, seriously changing the nature of the International Relations program at Victoria University. The submissions and petitions from staff and students that followed were reviewed by a select committee, that decided to ignore the 1000+ signatures and various submissions seeking accountability from [...]

Protests at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland both ended in confrontation between police and students yesterday. Victoria’s student newspaper Salient reports that a peaceful protest of about 150 students and supporters turned angry as students try to deliver a letter to vice-chancellor Pat Walsh. About 80 [...]

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 [...]

The decision announced yesterday to close Victoria University’s Crime and Justice Research Centre (CJRC) and make  all three current fulltime staff redundant is extremely disappointing – not only for the academic staff affected but for all members of the academic community at the university – said TEU organiser Michael Gilchrist. [...]

The decision yesterday to sack two lecturers in Victoria University’s International Relations programme to make way for new “themes” in the programme based around Security Studies and the Asia-Pacific region will lend urgency to a meeting of staff, students, University Council members and MPs scheduled for 4pm today 18 August [...]

Photos and video from todays rally opposing the university’s plans to close its Crime and Justice Research Centre, and to disestablish two lecturer positions in the Political Science and International Relations programme