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Minister embeds literacy in entry level courses

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says his government’s focus on foundation skills has seen the number of adults accessing programmes with a strong literacy and numeracy component quadruple...

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Further cuts for tertiary education

Despite record numbers of students in tertiary education this year the government has yet again cut funding. Since this government came to office, student numbers have grown by 5,000 but government...

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New Tertiary Education Strategy favours business above all else

“The minister has been keen on turning universities into businesses with no links to their communities for some time now,” said TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs last week when the government proposed...

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TEU submission on the Draft Tertiary Education Strategy 2014-2019

Submission of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa on the “Draft Tertiary Education Strategy 2014-2019”  15 November 2013 For further information please contact: Jo Scott...

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Education ministry concludes no discrimination against ITP degrees

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Symposium to addess workforce literacy

Thanks to cogdogblog @ Flickr for the photo Unitec yesterday focused attention on a major problem affecting many in New Zealand's workforce by hosting a symposium on the teaching of language, literacy...

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High inequality – not only unfair but inefficient

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Inequality – not only unfair but inefficient

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Govt cuts to adult literacy

The New Zealand Herald reports that more than 500 adults in basic literacy and numeracy classes have had their funding cut from the end of this year, despite assurances that literacy and numeracy...

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Time to rebuild adult and community education

New Zealand needs to act to rebuild adult and community education following the dramatic 2009 cuts to the sector. TEU ‘s most recent Te Kaupapa Whaioranga paper - a blueprint for adult and community...

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