Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 25 - Women face insecure work bias

Tertiary Update is our weekly bulletin about news in the tertiary education sector from the perspective of people working in the sector. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Women face insecure work bias Women are more likely to end up in casual, insecure and non-permanent work than men according to TEU's survey on casual employment in tertiary education. [Read more…] Stephanie Turner - insecure work in the quake's aftermath "After the earthquakes we were quite worried about job security because of falling student numbers." As Stephanie Turner knows, when jobs are threatened, people in insecure work are the first to go. [Read more…] Performance rankings open the gate for employment rankings Unsurprisingly when the Tertiary Education Commission released its Educational Performance Indicators (EPIs) last week we learnt exactly what we already knew, which is that if you focus your view through a telescope you get lots of detail but no context. [Read more…] Canterbury councils told to cooperate The tertiary education minister's decision to appoint Lincoln University's acting chancellor Tony Hall to the University of Canterbury's council, Canterbury's chancellor Dr John Wood to the Lincoln Council, and tax specialist Bruce Gemmell to both councils, attracts suspicion because of his government's previous attempts to silence community democracy in both polytechnics and in Canterbury. [Read more…] Thousands submit opposition to employment changes CTU and affiliated unions, including TEU, delivered thousands of submissions last week from workers speaking out against the government's proposed employment law changes. [Read more…] Robyn Malcolm supporting the Living Wage Campaign at the CTU Women's Conference last week   Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Other news 74 percent of those who responded to the Herald's CEO survey wanted to see more funding for tertiary education in subjects relevant to the skills needed by employers - New Zealand Herald Almost 3000 employees have won the right to extra paid leave to help them deal with domestic violence, under a landmark deal between Victoria's Swinburne University and the Australia's National Tertiary Education Union - The Australian "Open2Study offers the best possible online environment and techniques to help students understand what's being taught. These include a mix of six- to eight-minute videos, animations, simulations and quizzes, designed using high production values. Enrolling can be completed in less than 30 seconds. Courses can be completed in about four weeks." - Massey University New Zealand has its first Open Access Policy thanks to Lincoln University. We have been lagging behind in the OA landscape when it comes to tertiary institutions, and Lincoln's position is a great step - Sciblogs  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand License.  2013 Tertiary Education Union  You are receiving this email either because you are a financial member of TEU and we have added you to our mailing list, or because we have a record of you previously opting to add yourself to our mailing list. Our mailing address is: Tertiary Education Union PO Box 11 767 Wellington, Wellington 6142 New Zealand Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences