Stop running down our polytechnics, PM
09/2/10 •
John Key needs to stop his attacks on our polytechnics, says TEU national president Dr Tom Ryan.
“The prime minister’s sideswipe concerning completion rates for sub-degree tertiary programmes can only be read as a criticism of New Zealand polytechnics and institutes of technology. It also is an unfair dig at [...]
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Govt. needs to invest in skills and learning to stem youth unemployment
05/2/10 •
The minister of tertiary education needs to end the EFTS cap in universities, polytechnics and wānanga to give young people who want an education the chance to learn, says TEU national president Dr Tom Ryan.
“New Zealand’s tertiary institutions, especially our polytechnics, can help young people get the skills they need to find jobs. But they [...]
UCOL council decision exposes govt’s anti-democratic streak
04/2/10 •
The decision by UCOL council last week to not guarantee a place on its future councils for either students or staff is the absurd but unsurprising consequence of recent anti-democratic government legislation, says TEU National president Dr Tom Ryan.
His comments follow news that the current UCOL governing body had allocated fixed seats on its incoming [...]
PM diagnoses tertiary education with economic woes
04/2/10 •
Tertiary Update – Volume 13 Number 3
The prime minister John Key told TV3’s Sunrise this week that he has given Steven Joyce the tertiary education portfolio to sort out the sector’s economic issues.
“If you look at the tertiary sector a lot of the challenges that lie before that sector are quite economic in nature”, stated the [...]
University of Otago to merge schools to save money
04/2/10 •
A University of Otago is proposing to merge the departments of Design Studies and Clothing and Textile Sciences.
The university told staff in the departments last week of a proposal to establish a department of Applied Sciences, which would incorporate Clothing and Textile Sciences and elements of the department of Design Studies.
“The process of considering the [...]
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- ITP MECA Bargaining 2010 Update # 14
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- Sharp rise in unemployment demands Government action
- Ministry unlikely to reach Pasifika tertiary education target
- University of Waikato Branch Committee – 2009/10
- Government’s Promises to Reduce Gender Pay Gap are Hollow
- Kua Rangona, 2 February
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