The election is over, but our ‘tight 5’ remain…

Hau Taki Haere | Tertiary Update Vol 24, No 20

The Tertiary Education Union | Te Hautū Kahurangi (TEU) congratulates both the Labour Party and the Green Party on their successful election campaigns and are hopeful the clear mandate afforded to Labour sees renewed efforts to create a strong public tertiary education sector – to help Aotearoa build back better.

In the months building up to the election, TEU members took action and made their voice heard in support of our TEU General Election 2020 pledges to keep tertiary education public and to ensure equitable workplaces in our sector.

Our TEU General Election scorecard showed both the Green Party and Labour as leading the way in committing to our ‘tight 5’ pledges of:

• A new funding model

• Increased funding

• Removal of unnecessary auditing measures

• Paying a Living Wage

• Addressing inequality.

The 2020 Election may be over, but the need to address our 5 key priorities remains. It is only through a well-funded, equitable model of tertiary education, free from the cumbersome and costly restraints of unnecessary auditing measures, that we can realise the objectives set-out in the Tertiary Education Strategy 2020-2025, and well into the future.

TEU will continue to campaign on these key pledges in pursuit of keeping quality tertiary education public, and ensuring equitable workplaces across our sector.