By Andrew MacDonald. “Senator Rhiannon has been tireless in working through the parliamentary processes and out in public to protect our higher education system against the mean and unsustainable Coalition policy of funding cuts and fee deregulation,” said NTEU National President, Jeannie Rea. More...
24 septembre 2015
Eurydice publishes the academic calendar for HEIs for 2015/16
The EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) in Brussels that manages Eurydice has published a special report titled “The Organisation of the Academic Year in Higher Education, 2015/16” providing information on how the academic year in European universities is organised across 37 countries. More...
NTEU thanks Senator Rhiannon for advocacy on higher education
Challenging the power of ‘rich white guys in suits’
By Jeannie Rea (Women). A few months ago the New Zealand Tertiary Education Union (TEU) found itself having to campaign for staff to have seats on university councils because the Keys Government removed our legislated right to places on those seats. Very quickly we were holding meetings with Sir Jim, Sir Robin, Sir Neville, and, well you get the picture. More...
