Parliament debates falling postgrad student numbers
The Labour Party’s new tertiary education spokesperson Dr Megan Woods has challenged the government in parliament last week over its policy to abolish student allowances for post-graduate study,...
View ArticleRecovering UC needs wholehearted support from govt
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha (the University of Canterbury) is recovering, and has the kaha (strength) to build and grow but, it needs more than half-hearted tautoko (support) from government for its...
View ArticleTreasury documents reveal budget-cutting pressure
Documents released under the Official Information Act by Treasury confirm the government is dampening demand for tertiary education to balance the books, says the Labour Party's tertiary education...
View ArticleTEU challenges government’s Education Amendment Bill
Yesterday TEU joined hundreds of other organisations and individuals in speaking to parliament's Education and Science Select Committee, opposing the government's Education Amendment Bill. The bill,...
View ArticleProf goes public on Lincoln ‘crisis’
Tertiary Update Vol 17 No 19 TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs says TEU members nationwide will be supporting Professor Keith Woodford, who has taken the rare step of writing publicly on what he calls...
View ArticleEx-TEU member heads Parliament’s education committee
Former TEU member Dr Jian Yang will chair parliament's Education and Science Select Committee. Elected to parliament only three years ago directly from his job in the political science department at...
View ArticleParliament debates staff seats on councils
Tertiary Update Vol 17 No 42 A bill to remove democratically elected staff and student representatives from university and wānanga councils passed its second reading and committee stage in Parliament...
View ArticleGovernment cuts staff from councils
Parliament’s very first vote for 2015 was to remove the legal right of staff and students to have democratically elected representatives on their governing university and wānanga councils. The...
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