Unitec branch report 2009
2009 has been quite an eventful year for Unitec branch. The TEU database has 317 members listed at Unitec and our email mailing list has 302 names on it so the true number of members must lie somewhere...
View ArticleJoyce wants to cut govt's student loan bill
Tertiary Update, Vol 13 N0 7 Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce wants to cut the government’s student loan bill by removing access to the scheme for students who fail or drop out. The minister...
View ArticleTertiary ‘student performance’ league table feared
Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 31 The Tertiary Education Commission will publish data on individual tertiary education institutions at the end of the month, ranking them according to how many of their...
View ArticleSign the Ready2Go petition
Send an email petition to the chief executives of Northtec, Unitec, Wintec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Whitireia NZ telling them you want them to negotiate a site-based collective agreement with the...
View ArticleUnitec CEO to meet design staff
TEU members at Unitec have demanded a meeting with chief executive Rick Ede tomorrow morning, where they want him to explain the rationale behind his decision to make 50 of his 53 design and...
View ArticleUncertain future for Unitec student
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 42 A Unitec student, Simon Davis-Oakley contacted Tertiary Update this week to say that, as he enters his third ‘and most important’ year, Unitec is sacking the very lecturers...
View ArticleUnitec branch report 2009
2009 has been quite an eventful year for Unitec branch. The TEU database has 317 members listed at Unitec and our email mailing list has 302 names on it so the true number of members must lie somewhere...
View ArticleJoyce wants to cut govt's student loan bill
Tertiary Update, Vol 13 N0 7 Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce wants to cut the government's student loan bill by removing access to the scheme for students who fail or drop out. The minister...
View ArticleTen best paid bosses in tertiary education
And their lowest paid colleagues Tertiary Update Vol 17 No 44 Last week the State Services Commission announced the total remuneration for chief executives and vice-chancellors at public tertiary...
View ArticleUnitec’s redevelopment – less land and fewer staff
Unitec is undertaking a $250 million campus redevelopment, but Auckland Now reports its progress could be linked to more job losses. Unitec currently sits on a 64.5-hectare block. Unitec owns 53.5 of...
View ArticleUnitec announces restructure tomorrow
Unitec will unveil a major change proposal tomorrow to help it cope with the impact of an ongoing government funding squeeze. On Monday TEU’s Unitec branch met first with chief executive Rick Ede and...
View ArticleTEU members excited at meeting Unitec council
TEU members at Unitec say they have a plan to improve Rick Ede’s restructuring proposals. They are presenting that plan to a meeting with Unitec’s council on 2 November. TEU representatives met with...
View ArticleUnitec privatises 55 student support jobs
Unitec’s plan to take jobs from 55 people who support students, and hand them to a private call centre is a travesty says TEU national president Sandra Grey. Grey says most TEU members’ jobs are not...
View ArticleRubbish-bin for Unitec redundancy offers
Letters to people working at Unitec outlining how much money they will get if they take voluntary redundancy will go in the trash this Friday. Unitec managers wrote to every single person working at...
View ArticleEducation courses too long for modern world?
Many tertiary education courses are too restrictive for modern students according to Unitec’s chief executive Rick Ede. Ede told Kathryn Ryan’s Nine to Noon show that if institutions move away from the...
View ArticleUnitec shuts the door on North Shore campus
Unitec plans to close its northern campus at Albany before the end of the year. Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce opened the campus only five years ago calling it “a crucial part in the next...
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