When to accept controversial research funding?
Delegates at TEU’s annual conference will next week vote on whether to adopt a policy advocating that institutions refuse external funding only if the scale of the funding or other obligations attached...
View ArticleTEU members save with benefits and discounts
Giving TEU members access to cheaper computers, and tablets is one of the highlights TEU deputy secretary Nanette Cormack is anticipating at next week’s annual conference. Cormack has been negotiating...
View ArticleJob stress ‘serious threat’ at tertiary institutions
Tertiary Update Vol 17 No 38 People working in tertiary education have significantly more workplace stress than the average New Zealander according to survey data from AUT’s Work Research Institute....
View ArticleNZ should beware Australian vocational education
Vocation, a massive Australian stock-exchange listed company, has increased its government subsidies in the last two years from AU$9 million to nearly AU$120 million. Meanwhile public providers have...
View ArticleA sixth of tertiary education workers bullied
Tertiary Update Vol 17 No 39 Workplace bullying is not a problem for tertiary education institutions, says AUT’s Professor Tim Bentley, it is a problem of institutions. Bentley, whose Work Research...
View ArticleTEU launches plan for vocational education
Phil Edwards, TEU’s newly elected industrial and professional vice-president, helped launch an ambitious plan to remove many of the obstacles facing New Zealand’s vocational education system this week....
View ArticleDr Tom Ryan – bringing working people together
Tom Ryan was honoured as a TEU life member at the union’s annual awards ceremony on Monday night. Ryan first became a union member 45 years ago, while working as a labourer on the Kaimai Rail Tunnel....
View ArticleUnion U35
Launched at Conference 2014 Lucy-Jane Walsh University of Canterbury Digital Content Analysts UC Seismic When did you join the sector? 3 years ago. What encouraged you to join the union? A colleague...
View ArticleAcademics say academic freedom getting worse
Nearly two-fifths of academic staff say that their level of academic freedom is worse than when they started work, according to a survey on the state of the tertiary education workforce. AUT’s Work...
View ArticleStaff deserve right to use te reo Māori
Tertiary Update Vol 17 No 41 Students at most tertiary institutions have the right to use te reo Māori as provided for and protected in their institution’s policies and practices, but staff do not...
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