NMIT members call for end to pay-productivity link
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 1 For the last two years, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) has linked a significant portion of its pay offer it has made to academics to the institute’s...
View ArticleInstitutions loss out in competitive funding round
Radio New Zealand reports that Massey University has lost $1.6 million of government funding this year because of the government’s new funding rules which allow the Tertiary Education Commission to...
View ArticleLiving wage needed in tertiary education
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 4 TEU is calling on tertiary education employers to back the Living Wage campaign, saying that too many employees working at tertiary institutions are on wages and salaries...
View ArticleVUW tutors below the living wage
Degree qualified tutors at Victoria University are earning less than the living wage. TEU’s Adam Craigie says these tutors, some of whom have masters degrees and are studying towards doctorates, have a...
View ArticleWITT votes on new pay system
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 9 TEU members at the Western Institute of Technology in Taranaki (WITT) are voting on a new, more transparent, pay system. Negotiations at WITT were late to start last year...
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News for women – TEU National Women’s Committee Te Kahurangi Māreikura,...
Te Kahurangi Māreikura is TEU’s National Women’s Committee. Members include Cat Pausé (Women’s vice-president), Susan Watene (Te Toi Ahurangi rep), Alex Sims, Emma Kelly, Tracey Morgan, Susan Bennet,...
View ArticleProving you can read data a multitude of ways:
Media releases from tertiary education institutions, following release of PBRF Quality Scores yesterday. AUT’s Research performance has more than doubled yet again! Outstanding result for University of...
View ArticleTEU calls for Manawatu to pay the living wage
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 14 Massey University staff, whose minimum pay rates are more than $5 per hour below the living wage, deserve better pay says local TEU organiser Dean Scott. “Massey is a big...
View ArticleTEU’s first LGBTI forum recruiting to end discrimination
The passing of the marriage equality act last month reflects not only a change in New Zealand’s legal attempts to address discrimination against LGBTI people, but also a growing acceptance among a...
View ArticleLiving wage at University of Auckland
University of Auckland gardeners and security officers have won a living wage in recent negotiations. The gardeners and security officers are members of either the Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU)...
View ArticleInsecure work survey highlights growing job casualisation
A TEU survey on casual and insecure work has garnered hundreds of responses so far and looks set to reveal that casual and insecure work is a widespread practice in tertiary institutions around the...
View ArticleTEU wins promotions case against University of Auckland vice-chancellor
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 20 The vice-chancellor at the University of Auckland does not have the right to review academic staff promotions criteria without involving TEU members, is the outcome of an...
View ArticleOECD shows NZ’s lagging investment in public education
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 21 The OECD released its annual Education at a Glance indicators this week with a warning that countries around the world, and New Zealand specifically, are investing less...
View ArticleScience and maths teachers shine in teaching awards
Ako Aotearoa’s Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards recognised outstanding tertiary teachers and lecturers this week. A total of ten awards for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching (worth $20,000...
View ArticleRallies protest employment laws
One of New Zealand’s biggest unions, the EPMU, is holding rallies in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch over the next fortnight, highlighting proposed employment laws that are designed to cut pay...
View Article1500 rally against employment changes
Fifteen hundred Wellington workers rallied in Petone this week to oppose the government’s proposed employment law changes, which threaten to cut the pay of New Zealand workers and remove basic rights...
View ArticleStaff and Students for a Debt-free and Democratic University
Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA) and Tertiary Education Union (TEU) have joined forces to organise a rally to send a strong message to government and the University of Auckland that...
View ArticleStructural change needed to let academics debate publicly
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 35 Academics have a duty and privilege to engage in public debate but they cannot fulfill that role until there are fundamental changes to the structures of New Zealand’s...
View ArticleTEU University of Auckland Branch press release
The University of Auckland Council should weigh carefully the arguments for and against raising domestic student fees for 2014 by the maximum 4% allowed by the Ministry of Tertiary Education. The...
View ArticleUniversity of Auckland fee rise angers students
Students expressed frustration at the decision from the University of Auckland Council this week to yet again raise tuition fees by the maximum allowable 4 percent Auckland University Student’s...
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