Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 24 -Casual employees want security

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Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 24 - Casual employees want security not flexibility

Casual employees want security not flexibility
Seven out of every eight TEU members who are on casual, fixed-term or insecure employment agreements would like permanent work, according to TEU's recent survey of casual work.
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Hinemoana Baker - eight years without a holiday
If Hinemoana Baker is looking relaxed it's because she has just come back from her first holiday in "maybe eight years". With her long string of casual short-term jobs, and her partner self-employed, it is not easy to align days off that overlap.
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MOOC questions need answering
Both Waikato and Massey universities are discussing how to approach massive open online courses (MOOCs). Professor Mark Brown, from Massey University announced to TechDay "Massey University will be making an announcement in the next few weeks about how it intends to take advantage of the MOOC movement to more widely share its world-class expertise."
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PBRF pressures changing our workforce
The Otago Daily Times reports that the proportion of staff employed as lecturers at New Zealand universities dropped by a third over the space of a decade.
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Digital information creating workplace stress
An Australian Workload Productivity report that found digital communications are creating huge workloads, pressure and workplace stress received front-page coverage from the Dominion Post yesterday.
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Treasury misses the point of tertiary education
Treasury's bizarre working paper Private Returns to Tertiary Education, which it released this week, seems to argue that New Zealand should move from emulating equitable and economically successful countries like Sweden, Norway or Japan to copy Portugal, Turkey and Hungary instead.
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