Tag: Academic staff
Starved of funds and vision, struggling universities put NZ’s entire research...
ANALYSIS: By Nicola Gaston, University of Auckland
The crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand’s university and wider research sector did not happen overnight. While funding shortfalls...
‘Shameful wage stealing’ endemic at Australian universities, says report
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney
A National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) report claims that “wage theft has shamefully become an endemic part of universities’ business...
AUT VC Damon Salesa responds over 170 academic staff cuts
Pacific Media Watch
Yesterday RNZ's Nine to Noon programme looked at the impact of redundancies at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) among academic staff --...
AUT apologises to Australian MP over sexual harassment complaint inquiry
RNZ News
Auckland University of Technology has unreservedly apologised to a former academic turned Australian MP for its botched handling of her complaint regarding sexual...
What does ‘academic freedom’ mean in practice? Why the Siouxsie Wiles...
ANALYSIS: By Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury
Two high-profile University of Auckland academics raised important questions about academic freedom with their complaint to the Employment...