Library

Many of TEU’s publications are kept here at http://issuu.com/nzteu. There you can view them online, on an electronic book viewer such as an iPad, or you can download them as a pdf.

Links to articles for the Australian NTEU’s Advocate magazine:

November 2011 – Occupy Aotearoa New Zealand
July 2011 - When employers gang up, we’re ready2go
March 2011 - Thanks for being good neighbours
November 2010 – Balancing fairness at work
July 2010 – Missing out on the chance to learn
March 2010 – Ominous Budget looms in NZ
November 2009 – A say in the governance of your workplace
July 2009 - Denise Bradley, where the bloody hell are you?

The New Zealand Journal of Tertiary Education Policy

Flax rope or iron fetter?

Roger Openshaw and Elizabeth Rata examine how cultural essentialism threatens intellectual freedom in the New Zealand tertiary education sector. Roger Oppenshaw is at Massey University(r.oppenshaw@massey.ac.nz), and Elizabeth Rata at the University of Auckland (e.rata@auckland.ac.nz).
Link to ‘Flax rope or iron fetter’ here

Beyond the utilitarian university

Brian Easton sets out his views on the key characteristics of a modern university; something more than business enterprises responding to the vocational aspirations of paying students in a competitive market environment.
Link to ‘Beyond the utilitarian university’ here

Review – Parenting and professing: Balancing family work with an academic career

University of Canterbury’s Julia Rucklidge reviews this collection of personal essays written mostly by American women and edited by Rachel Bassett.
Link to ‘Review – Parenting and professing: Balancing family work with an academic career’ here