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Employment law changesMay 17, 2012, 9:19 amTertiary Update Vol 15 No 16 Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson is proposing extensivechanges to employment law, which include allowing employers to walk away from collective agreement negotiations. Cabinet approved the changes this week and they will likely go before Parliament this year. TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs says the changes will [...]
University of Canterbury closures angers indebted studentMay 10, 2012, 10:30 amTertiary Update Vol 15 No 15 A part time student at the University of Canterbury says the university’s plan to close its theatre program will cost her $4000 of fees for a degree she can no longer complete. Sarah has told the student campaign You are UC: “If I was a [...]
No money in budget, just shuffling and cutsMay 3, 2012, 11:12 amTEU Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 14 The prime minister, John Key, and the minister of tertiary education skills and employment, Steven Joyce, this week foreshadowed several tertiary education budget initiatives. Mr Joyce told Radio New Zealand that he would be shifting funding away from humanities and commerce towards maths, [...]
Students reject UC cutsApril 26, 2012, 10:06 amTertiary Update No 15 Vol 13 You Are UC, the student campaign against cuts to the College of Arts at the University of Canterbury, is holding a barbeque complete with theatrical entertainment to protest against the cuts today. You Are UC will also becollecting signatures for a petition against the cuts. [...]
2012 Archives
Employment law changesMay 17, 2012, 9:19 am
University of Canterbury closures angers indebted studentMay 10, 2012, 10:30 am
No money in budget, just shuffling and cutsMay 3, 2012, 11:12 am
Students reject UC cutsApril 26, 2012, 10:06 am
Emerging scientists struggle to find post-doc workApril 19, 2012, 9:21 am
Employment authority rejects Otago Uni’s use of confirmationApril 12, 2012, 10:24 am
Lincoln swaps permanent staff for casual studentsApril 5, 2012, 10:23 am
Closure of theatre, film, American and cultural studies at UCMarch 29, 2012, 9:46 am
University staff seek assurance reviews will not increase workloadMarch 22, 2012, 9:34 am
PBRF becomes corporate welfare programmeMarch 15, 2012, 9:07 am
New Zealand specific research under pressure from PBRFMarch 8, 2012, 10:46 am
University of Canterbury to restructure ArtsMarch 1, 2012, 9:12 am
Casual jobs mean lower pay, less securityFebruary 23, 2012, 9:40 am
Two thirds of Australian tertiary workers lack on-going jobsFebruary 16, 2012, 7:18 am
Ministry responds to funding cuts with commercialisationFebruary 9, 2012, 9:53 am
Kiwis join global journal boycottFebruary 2, 2012, 9:43 am
2011 Archives
NorthTec can’t settleDecember 8, 2011, 9:52 am
Can the Māori Party’s kawanatanga policy influence tertiary ed?December 1, 2011, 11:23 am
Aucklanders collar control of their academic working conditionsNovember 25, 2011, 3:20 pm
Whitireia settlesNovember 17, 2011, 9:11 am
Long wait over at UnitecNovember 10, 2011, 10:28 am
Unfunded students create $100 million shortfallNovember 3, 2011, 11:02 am
TEU Dunedin team volunteer for MMPOctober 27, 2011, 11:26 am
Te Tari Puna Ora pays for post-grad study and matauranga MāoriOctober 20, 2011, 8:54 am
TEU wins special PBRF rules for earthquake-shaken researchersOctober 13, 2011, 9:06 am
Staff say they will defend UC for CantabriansOctober 6, 2011, 12:08 pm
Competent learners happy with competent teachersSeptember 29, 2011, 10:54 am
Funding for Canterbury follows growing public pressureSeptember 22, 2011, 11:12 am
Massey staff asked to donate to universitySeptember 15, 2011, 10:07 am
Thousands of tertiary staff may not yet be enrolled to voteSeptember 8, 2011, 10:07 am
Quick strike at Weltec restarts negotiationsSeptember 1, 2011, 9:11 am
AUT undertakes twenty reviews in four yearsAugust 25, 2011, 9:24 am
One year masters degreesAugust 18, 2011, 11:34 am
Staff and students rally to stop closure at VicAugust 4, 2011, 10:26 am
Christchurch Polytechnic wants longer days for teachersJuly 28, 2011, 10:54 am
TEU challenges change proposals at VictoriaJuly 21, 2011, 11:22 am
Surpluses at public institutions raise questions about prioritiesJuly 14, 2011, 11:16 am
Universities need to face up to aging workforceJuly 7, 2011, 2:07 pm
$500,000 increase in legal fees and consultantsJune 30, 2011, 11:33 am
Judges tell polytechnics to get Ready2GoJune 23, 2011, 10:11 am
WITT-less polytechnic gang face growing oppositionJune 16, 2011, 10:42 am
Prime Minister proposes anti-union laws if re-electedJune 9, 2011, 10:43 am
Unitec cuts pay for academics, but not managementJune 2, 2011, 9:59 am
Campaign to kick-start bargaining at five polytechnicsMay 26, 2011, 4:29 pm
Court rules again: it’s time for bargaining to beginMay 19, 2011, 9:30 am
Wintec councillors award pay-rises, staff next hopefullyMay 12, 2011, 10:11 am
TEU saves Waikato arts jobsMay 5, 2011, 11:32 am
University of Auckland students rally for staffApril 28, 2011, 1:37 pm
Three pay rises and a lump sum for WITT membersApril 21, 2011, 12:24 pm
Wānanga bias against independent union membersApril 14, 2011, 12:17 pm
Academics flock to unionApril 7, 2011, 12:42 pm
NorthTec responds to skills shortage by looking to fire trades teachersMarch 30, 2011, 3:02 pm
Budget Preview 2011March 24, 2011, 9:28 am
Too many fixed term jobs for on-going workMarch 17, 2011, 10:26 am
ITP MECA saga goes back to courtMarch 10, 2011, 1:09 pm
PBRF reporting in danger at Auckland UniMarch 3, 2011, 9:05 am
Recovering from the earthquakeFebruary 24, 2011, 10:03 am
Aoraki staff suffering back-to-school bluesFebruary 18, 2011, 8:35 am
Student achievement grants cut for 8 polytechnicsFebruary 10, 2011, 8:50 am
UoA academics turn down money for the bagFebruary 3, 2011, 10:31 am
What could yesterday’s spending cuts mean for tertiary education?January 27, 2011, 2:21 pm
Could trade agreement let for-profit US universities sue NZ polytechnics?December 9, 2010, 9:22 am
EIT votes on definition of academic staff roleDecember 2, 2010, 11:37 am
Government cuts $250 per studentNovember 25, 2010, 1:25 pm
20 redundancies likely this week at ManukauNovember 18, 2010, 9:23 am
Over 50 major tertiary restructurings in the past yearNovember 11, 2010, 10:31 am
2010 Archives
Could trade agreement let for-profit US universities sue NZ polytechnics?December 9, 2010, 9:22 am
EIT votes on definition of academic staff roleDecember 2, 2010, 11:37 am
Government cuts $250 per studentNovember 25, 2010, 1:25 pm
20 redundancies likely this week at ManukauNovember 18, 2010, 9:23 am
Over 50 major tertiary restructurings in the past yearNovember 11, 2010, 10:31 am
Nursing education to move from polytechnics to universities?November 4, 2010, 8:30 am
High flying VC told to rein in costsOctober 28, 2010, 9:29 am
Thousands of ‘happy’ workers make themselves heardOctober 21, 2010, 1:07 pm
3000 new places for university studentsOctober 14, 2010, 11:41 am
Teachers Council says only registered teachers to supervise studentsOctober 7, 2010, 3:43 pm
Whitireia tutor wins intellectual property argumentSeptember 30, 2010, 6:25 pm
Wellington tradespeople could suffer from Weltec cost-cuttingSeptember 23, 2010, 1:01 pm
Overseas academics won’t take the riskSeptember 16, 2010, 3:08 pm
League tables relegate learning contextSeptember 9, 2010, 2:23 pm
TEU president-elect says funding cuts have reached their limitsSeptember 2, 2010, 12:47 pm
Wānanga responds to performance funding pressureAugust 26, 2010, 11:03 am
Tertiary ‘student performance’ league table fearedAugust 19, 2010, 11:42 am
Ministry lauds the way tertiary education wasAugust 12, 2010, 2:07 pm
Tertiary institutions could suffer from unfair employment lawsAugust 5, 2010, 12:37 pm
New employment laws a big step backwards for NZ, academic warnsJuly 29, 2010, 11:35 am
Linking funding to employment could have perverse consequencesJuly 22, 2010, 11:44 am
Joyce calls for radical funding changesJuly 15, 2010, 9:31 am
Minister offers to lean on polytechnic to change its fundingJuly 8, 2010, 11:46 am
Massey to cut general staff jobsJuly 1, 2010, 10:19 am
TEU sends UC library restructuring back to reviewJune 24, 2010, 9:21 am
Secondary school rolls continue to growJune 17, 2010, 1:31 pm
General Staff Day and rally at ChristchurchJune 10, 2010, 12:59 pm
Government revises Pay Expectations for State sectorJune 3, 2010, 1:02 pm
Court tells TOPNZ its 34 hour weeks for union membersMay 27, 2010, 12:16 pm
Ominous signs for 2010 budgetMay 20, 2010, 9:10 am
University restructuring continuesMay 13, 2010, 10:59 am
35 librarians to be disestablished at UCMay 7, 2010, 1:53 am- Student fees leap up and GST hike still to comeApril 22, 2010, 11:38 am
- Workload increases at AUTApril 15, 2010, 12:11 pm
- Joyce wants incentives for pastoral careApril 8, 2010, 3:19 pm
- ITP councils asked to consider the role of staffApril 1, 2010, 4:02 pm
- Future Focus tells young to get back into educationMarch 25, 2010, 9:18 am
- Minister shares his dusty briefingsMarch 18, 2010, 11:55 am
- Joyce prepares to shuffle the fundingMarch 11, 2010, 10:04 am
- Joyce wants to cut govt's student loan billMarch 4, 2010, 4:05 pm
- What future for equity funding?February 25, 2010, 10:46 am
- Polytechnic staff want facilitation after a year of negotiationsFebruary 18, 2010, 9:06 am
- WITT prepares drastic measures for 2011February 11, 2010, 11:20 am
- PM diagnoses tertiary education with economic woesFebruary 4, 2010, 9:59 am
- New Minister of Tertiary EducationJanuary 28, 2010, 12:21 pm
- Dept of Labour predicts Māori education jobs at riskJanuary 21, 2010, 10:10 am
2009 and 2008 Archives
- Hostile ITP MECA employers reject zero percent claimDecember 10, 2009, 4:25 pm
- Minister searches for new councillorsDecember 3, 2009, 10:10 am
- Three week strike now affecting student marksNovember 26, 2009, 3:25 pm
- Polytechnics financial performance not so bad after allNovember 19, 2009, 4:26 pm
- Treasury tells govt to slash education spendingNovember 12, 2009, 2:51 pm
- Strike continues at MECA ITPsNovember 6, 2009, 1:10 pm
- Slow progress for women professorsOctober 29, 2009, 9:49 am
- Vice-chancellors told to pay for quality assuranceOctober 22, 2009, 9:00 am
- Minister says be selective about studentsOctober 15, 2009, 10:27 am
- Someone watching over youOctober 8, 2009, 9:38 am
- Draft strategy warns of funding droughtOctober 1, 2009, 10:09 am
- SSC supressing only union members' paySeptember 24, 2009, 1:42 pm
- ITP strikes continue across North IslandSeptember 17, 2009, 10:58 am
- Polytechnics vote for strikeSeptember 10, 2009, 1:23 pm
- Ministers accused of interfering in ITP negotiationsSeptember 3, 2009, 11:31 am
- State Services Commission interferes in good faith bargainingAugust 27, 2009, 3:58 pm
- TEC warns of possible teach-to-earn funding modelAugust 20, 2009, 12:09 pm
- ITP staff to vote on action over leave and workloadAugust 13, 2009, 11:56 am
- Shorter plumbing course risks safetyAugust 6, 2009, 4:36 pm
- Waikato Uni cuts hope for aspiring tauiraJuly 30, 2009, 3:29 pm
- A plethora of reviewsJuly 23, 2009, 5:13 pm
- ITPNZ rejects 'unreliable enrolment statistics' claimJuly 16, 2009, 4:23 pm
- Polytechnics face catch-22July 9, 2009, 3:19 pm
- Institutions have no right to individual PBRF scoresJuly 2, 2009, 5:10 pm
- Minister: "Don't run out of money, because I'm not going to give you any"June 18, 2009, 4:30 pm
- Concern over growing workloadsJune 11, 2009, 3:51 pm
- Six ITPs negotiate workload hoursJune 4, 2009, 2:12 pm
- What to look for in the budgetMay 28, 2009, 11:01 am
- Call to end compulsory redundanciesMay 21, 2009, 12:20 pm
- Finance minister proposes tertiary education cutsMay 14, 2009, 3:53 pm
- Minister calls for market-driven educationMay 7, 2009, 3:49 pm
- No workers' voice in workforce planningApril 30, 2009, 1:08 pm
- TEU members endorse university national bargaining againApril 23, 2009, 12:57 pm
- Training support needed for new doctorsApril 16, 2009, 4:59 pm
- Manukau teachers vote on workload strikeApril 9, 2009, 3:10 pm
- Canterbury University contemplates student cutsApril 2, 2009, 3:29 pm
- Tertiary-education assessment falls short of the mark?March 26, 2009, 3:02 pm
- Govt expectations may have tertiary education institutions on edgeMarch 19, 2009, 3:10 pm
- Incoming TEU President Ryan calls for end to redundanciesMarch 12, 2009, 2:34 pm
- 72 staff cut from TEC as political funding cuts biteMarch 5, 2009, 4:23 pm
- Mixed reactions to student bondingFebruary 26, 2009, 3:38 pm
- Tertiary-education CEOs to face pay freeze as recession bites?February 12, 2009, 11:49 am
- Ryan and Tipene to contest TEU presidencyFebruary 5, 2009, 12:06 pm
- Students turning to tertiary education in face of recessionJanuary 29, 2009, 10:01 am
- Sharn Riggs appointed TEU national seretaryDecember 18, 2008, 3:07 pm
- Tertiary-education PaEE review progresses slowlyDecember 11, 2008, 9:48 am
- Lincoln progression case on appealDecember 4, 2008, 6:02 pm
- Right diagnosis, wrong cureNovember 27, 2008, 4:14 pm

