The TEU is the union for all tertiary education staff; everybody who works in tertiary education, including polytechnics, teacher education, universities, wānanga and private training institutions, REAPs and OTEPs. We are a democratic organisation and we stand up together for what we believe in. Because we are stronger together

The national centre for tertiary teaching excellence, Ako Aotearoa, has released the findings from its stock-take of tertiary qualifications and formal (and informal) support. The report, titled “Tertiary Practitioner Education Training and Support – Taking Stock“, describes what institutions are doing to build staff capability and support their development. The study shows that more than [...]

Wage and salary settlements results for 2009 are startling according to CTU Policy Director, Bill Rosenberg. Dr Rosenberg says the annual survey of bargaining trends reported by the Industrial Relations Centre (IRC) at Victoria University of Wellington shows that union members on a collective agreement are doing much better than other workers. The findings show, that [...]

The New Zealand Herald reports that revenue minister Peter Dunne has compared indebted former students who now live overseas to refugees.  Mr Dunne said the government is investigating using debt collectors to recover more money from student loan borrowers living overseas. He says most borrowers who lived in New Zealand were meeting obligations to pay [...]

Members of Otago Polytechnic’s council are outraged that the polytechnic will be turning away potential students because of its Tertiary Education Commission imposed EFTS cap on funding for next year is likely to fall below this year’s cap of 3,200. The Otago Daily Times reports that the polytechnic will introduce a more stringent selection process where first-year [...]

Dr Sandra Grey, TEU’s current women’s vice-president, will take up the role of TEU national president te tumu whakarae next year after she was elected unopposed earlier this week. Dr Grey is a senior lecturer at Victoria University’s School of Social and Cultural Studies, where she teaches social policy and researches ways in which citizens [...]

Welcome to our first newsletter for 2010 – something we want to become a regular communication and up-date tool to keep in touch and reduce e-mail traffic. Branch AGM This was held on 10 August by video conference and 27 members attended across the 3 campuses. The new branch office holders and executive committee are: [...]

Council of Trade Unions media release 31 August 2010 “The untimely dropping of Community Max except in targeted regions and the outlook for construction jobs highlight once again that not enough is being done to support employment”, said Peter Conway, CTU Secretary. The number on unemployment benefit is rising, the official measure of unemployment is [...]

Take 5 minutes to Submit for Fairness at Work We need as many people as possible to submit to Parliament’s Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee to explain why the Government’s proposed changes to employment law are unworkable, unnecessary and unfair. The government has only allowed a very short submission time so please go to our on-line [...]

Council of Trade Unions media release 29 August 2010 The revelation that the Government’s proposal to allow employers to demand a medical certificate after only one day’s absence was made without any consultation with the Department of Labour only serves to confirm the CTU’s view that it is the ‘straw man’ in the current package [...]

Apologies for another late Kua Rangona this week. The reason for the delay was that we needed to get our on-line Fairness submission up and running first: Submit for Fairness at Work We need as many people as possible to submit to Parliament’s Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee to explain why the Government’s proposed changes to employment [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 13, No 32 Bentham Ohia, the pouhere at the Wānanga o Aoteaora, is advising staff to concentrate on ensuring that tauira are enrolled in the right programme, that they graduate, and, where possible, that they pathway onto a higher level programme. This advice follows news that the Tertiary Education Commission will be [...]

One hundred jobs are to be cut at the Ministry of Education as part of a strategy to improve student outcomes and service, NZPA reports. Ministry staff were told last week about the job cuts, on top of about 300 vacancies not being filled. “No decisions have been made about what areas and roles will [...]

The minister of education, Steven Joyce, has answered a series of parliamentary written questions explaining why the government is disestablishing the Academic Migrant Grants and the Refugee Study Grants. Asked if he was concerned that disestablishing the grants will make it more difficult for new migrants and refugees to access tertiary education, the minster replied [...]