Tertiary Education
During the 1990s tertiary education went through a dramatic change. Years of funding cuts were topped with the interdiction of the student loan scheme. Student Debt is well over $7 billion and is predicted to reach $20 billion by 2020 - unless we change direction now. The Greens are committed to ending barriers to education - a vibrant tertiary education sector is crucial for the future.
If you want to be kept up to date on tertiary issues email teringa [dot] teawhe [at] parliament [dot] govt [dot] nz (Subject: Please%20keep%20me%20up-to-date%20with%20Tertiary%20issues) (Metiria's office.)
What's new
Green MP Establishes Scholarship
Green Party MP Dr Kennedy Graham has established a post-graduate scholarship at the University of Canterbury.
Knowledge economy being dumbed down
Dr Don Brash and his productivity taskforce need to urgently advise the Education Minister that we will never catch up with Australia in wages and quality of life by treating those teaching at polytechnics with contempt, Green Party Co-Leader Metiria Turei said today.
New Horizons for Women Trust Annual Awards Ceremony
This week Metiria Turei hosted the New Horizons for Women Annual Awards Ceremony.
This award ceremony was about recognising the importance of tertiary education for women. It acknowledged the determination of the second-chance award winners in accessing tertiary education, the continued importance of women researchers studying issues that affect women and the key role of women in promoting peace in our communities.
Women receiving the awards shared their moving stories of challenge and triumph.
Government suffocating polytechnics
The Government is squandering another opportunity to boost economic productivity and get young adults off the street by refusing to fully fund tertiary education institutions. Twenty per cent of those in the 15 to 19 age bracket were not employed or being trained, and cost the economy $1b a year, Dr Stuart Middleton reported at the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics Conference.
Metiria Turei - "Could the Marxist-Leninist Anarcha-Feminist Maori Nationalist Random Trollop please EXPLAIN!"
Metiria Turei is speaking at Drinking Liberally on Thursday 9th April. It is sure to be an interesting evening... and heaps of fun! Come down and join us!
Tertiary Education Links
Tertiary Education Links
New Zealand University Students' Association (NZUSA) The NZUSA is a federation of student associations and the largest student body in the country. NZUSA advocates for the common and collective concerns of students.
Aotearoa Tertiary Students' Association (ATSA) The ATSA is a National students' association was formed to represent students from institutions around New Zealand. Our role is to represent the concerns of tertiary students on a national level through lobbying government. ATSA also provides support and training to associations on a local level.
The New Zealand Tertiary Education Union – Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa (TEU) is the union representing the interests of more than 12,000 workers employed in the tertiary education sector across New Zealand. The TEU is the main union in the sector and our membership includes teachers and workers employed in all occupations in universities, polytechnics, institutes of technology, wānanga, other tertiary education providers and allied organisations. It was formed this year from a merger of AUS and ASTE.
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