Katy Miller (Victoria University of Wellington), Simon Ryan and Rosemary Overall (both the University of Otago) talk about the recent cuts to humanities and languages courses at their universities.
John Egan and Antonia Verstappen discuss the problems professional staff at the University of Auckland have getting a pay rise. Listen to their short podcast on the reasons why people at the university are on strike for fair pay, and the impact their strike is having on the university.
TEU member and law professor Jane Kelsey says a proposed amendment to the Education Act, combined with a secret new trade agreement, could undermine education. Listen to our podcast where she discusses Steven Joyce's Education Amendment Bill and the secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA). Thanks to Victor Odoevsky at Jamendo for his track "News" https://www.jamendo.com/track/1365941/news and Public Services International for the photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/psi_isp_iska/15599703412
TEU Voices from Tertiary Education Symposium. 23 July 2016, Old Government House, Victoria University of Wellington. Hellen Swales, from the NZ Federation of Business and Professional Women, was part of a panel discussion on the topic "A look at the education needs of society and economy".
TEU Voices from Tertiary Education Symposium. 23 July 2016, Old Government House, Victoria University of Wellington. Trevor McGlinchey, the executive officer of the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services, was part of a panel discussion on the topic "A look at the education needs of society and economy".
TEU Voices from Tertiary Education Symposium. 23 July 2016, Old Government House, Victoria University of Wellington. Kirk Hope, chief executive of BusinessNZ, was part of a panel discussion on the topic "A look at the education needs of society and economy".
TEU Voices from Tertiary Education Symposium. 23 July 2016, Old Government House, Victoria University of Wellington. Millie Douglas, from the Career Development Association of New Zealand, was part of a panel discussion on the topic "A look at the education needs of society and economy".
TEU Voices from Tertiary Education Symposium. 23 July 2016, Old Government House, Victoria University of Wellington. @EricCrampton, the head of research at the @nzinitiative, was part of a panel discussion on the topic "A look at the education needs of society and economy". Dr Crampton's presentation is also available at https://initiativeblog.com/2016/07/25/crystal-ball-gazing-tertiary-ed-edition/
TEU Voices from Tertiary Education Symposium. 22 July 2016, Old Government House, Victoria University of Wellington. Linda Sissons , former chief executive of Weltec and a spokesperson for Metro ITPs, was part of a panel discussion answering the question “What does an innovative and productive tertiary education sector look like?”
TEU Voices from Tertiary Education Symposium. 22 July 2016, Old Government House, Vicotria University of Wellington. Linsey Higgins, the president of NZUSA, was part of a panel discussion answering the question “What does an innovative and productive tertiary education sector look like?”
TEU Voices from Tertiary Education Symposium. 22 July 2016, Old Government House, Vicotria University of Wellington. Josh Williams, the chief executive officer at the Industry Training Federation (ITF) was part of a panel discussion answering the question “What does an innovative and productive tertiary education sector look like?”
TEU Voices from Tertiary Education Symposium. 22 July 2016, Old Government House, Vicotria University of Wellington. Chris Whelan, the executive director from Universities New Zealand - Te Pōkai Tara was part of a panel discussion answering the question “What does an innovative and productive tertiary education sector look like?”
Hear why the Rt Hon Jim Bolger tells TEU's symposium thinks #neoliberal #economics are failing New Zealand and why it is time for universities to engage in public debate about our need for a new economic model.
TEU president Sandra Grey and NZUSA president Linsey Higgins analyse what the Hunger Games Budget2016 means for tertiary education in #NewZealand #Budget2016 http://teu.ac.nz/tag/budget-2016/
Earlier this week Unitec’s chief executive Rick Ede said many tertiary education courses are too restrictive for modern students. Ede told Kathryn Ryan’s Nine to Noon show (http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201797465/the-future-of-tertiary-education) that if institutions move away from the “old traditional chalk-and-talk model to a more collaborative, practical environment” learning can take place much more quickly. TEU communications officer Stephen Day talked to Unitec's TEU branch president Sid Suha Aksoy and TEU national president Sandra Grey to find out if this is the case. --- Thanks to Michael Pardo at Flickr for the photo “Hurry!”
Listen to Tertiary Update’s inaugural podcast. This week the Prime Minister John Key confirmed that his government is budgeting for $1 billion of new spending for the coming year. We talked to some TEU members about whether that would be enough. From a 2015 podcast http://teu.ac.nz/podcast/is-1-billion-enough/
This week’s TEU podcast asks how a little known international agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement or #TPPA, could affect tertiary education. In particular, will stricter copyright laws restrict access to scholarship and research? From a 2015 TEU podcast http://teu.ac.nz/podcast/tppa-copyright/