Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 12 Union members at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi will be voting on a 2 percent pay rise next month. Four days of negotiations between the two unions, TEU and TIASA, and the whare wānanga concluded successfully last week with a two percent offer backdated to 1 January this year. [...]

Negotiations at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi will resume next week, following a stopwork meeting by union members last Friday. One of the big issues that remains unresolved in the negotiations is the wānanga’s claim to delete an existing compassionate grant from its collective agreement. The grant awards one-twelfth of an employee’s salary for each [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 25 Ministry of Education statistics show the average surplus as a percentage of revenue at public tertiary education providers climbing dramatically from 1.9 percent in 2006 to 5.2 percent last year. In 2006 public tertiary education providers made a combined surplus of $66 million on revenue of $3.5 billion. Last year the [...]

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 joined these five polytechnics in [...]

Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce and Māori affairs minister Dr Pita Sharples signed a deed of settlement this week with Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi recognising the unique contribution it makes to tertiary education, and providing it with funding to develop its Whakatāne campus. In the settlement the Crown will pay Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi [...]

The tumuaki at the three wananga all received significant increases in their total remuneration last year according to figures revealed in the State Services Commission’s just released Annual Report. The increases align their pay more closely with their peers at other tertiary education institutions. Mereana Selby, the tumuaki at Te Wānanga o Raukawa, saw her [...]

He Pūrongo – Report 13 o Whiringa-ā-nuku 2009 He Mihi He hōnore, he korōria ki te atua, he maungarongo ki te whenua, he whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa Arohaina ngā teina me ngā tuākana. Whakanuia tō tātou arikinui me tōna whānau whānui. Paimārire ki a rātou. Me mihi ki ngā tini aitua kua wheturangihia, [...]

A TEC director has told the New Zealand Herald that it is a government priority to invest first in getting young students and Māori and Pacific students into tertiary education. David Nicholson, the director of tertiary investment and monitoring at the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) was responding to comments by vice chancellors that they may [...]

Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi are both likely to cut courses next year because of government policy, despite having record numbers of students wanting to study at their institutions. Awanuiārangi is understood to have 16 percent more students in 2009 than it is funded for by the Tertiary Education [...]

Universities bargaining The first two days of negotiations for the nationwide universities collective employment agreement will take place this week on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 July.”  Hopefully you have already received an email with more information about what is going on, what you need to do and the agreed claims. If not you can [...]