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No filming of drunk students at Otago.
By Rory MacDonald (Critic)
The news media are pissed off with Otago University Students Assosiation (OUSA) over a form they were forced to sign before they could film inside Orientation… Continue reading »
Strike? Is no news good news?
A year has passed since the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) members entered into negotiations with employers at six polytechnics, including Unitec.
TEU members have been striking intermittently since September last year… Continue reading »
Unitec has money. Where is it? Where did it come from?
In December of last year Unitec announced a financial surplus, estimated at around 5 million dollars, after several years of financial deficit.
The figure is still… Continue reading »
Unitec turns students away, but if you’re reading this you probably weren’t one of them.
Increased enrollments due to the recession have seen Unitec turning students away for the first time.
Unitec’s executive director of finance… Continue reading »
Key targets lazy students
“Lazy” and under-performing students are the target of the Government’s 2010 tertiary education reforms.
In hisfirst speech to parliament for the year Prime Minister John Key said there were "increasingly… Continue reading »
25 cent raise in minimum wage “just rubbish”
The government is standing by its 25 cent raise in minimum wage, prompting calls for a referendum to raise it to $15 per hour.
The increase from… Continue reading »
News round up with the news hound.
While you’ve been having a lazy summer I, the loyal news hound, have been dutifully collecting the newspaper, watching the news and listening on the wireless every day… Continue reading »
Every six minutes in New Zealand police are called to a domestic violence incident. However, reports show these call outs only represent about 15 percent of what is happening behind closed doors. Today marks… Continue reading »
Unitec students fear failing their courses as a result of persistent striking from Unitec staff.
Unitec members of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) have been striking intermittently since September 16; the most recent strikes are due… Continue reading »
It is unknown if Unitec lecturers will be striking again following day long and lightening strikes before the semester break.
Strike action at Unitec began on September 16 because negotiations over employment conditions failed. Lecturers… Continue reading »
The ex-Unitec student convicted of killing an elderly man outside the grounds of Unitec has been sentenced to three years in jail.
At the Auckland High Court on September 29 Bio O’Brien, who was studying civil… Continue reading »
Campaigners wanting to raise the minimum wage have recently set up shop at Unitec.
Mike Treen, the national director of the Unite union which for the last five years has worked to ensure workers on the… Continue reading »
Unitec’s plans to move courses around the campuses have been meet with anger by some students.
One of these plans is to eventually move the four year osteopathy degree, currently based at the Mount… Continue reading »
Most members of the USU exec were present for their meeting on October 1 where they discussed the marae and their replacements amongst other things.
Powell had not received the official results of the elections for… Continue reading »
The results of the USU's annual election to find next year's USU executive have been counted and the winners have been revealed.
Sole presidential candidate Pete Hodkinson defeated his only competition, no confidence, by over… Continue reading »
Unitec is lending a helping hand to those affected by the recent Pacific tsunami.
The tsunami hit Samoa and Tonga after an earthquake on September 29, killing over 100 people.
Chief executive Rick Ede says Unitec will… Continue reading »
Recently, In Unison’s self-important assumptions came true.
In early September contributor’s late nights and hard work for In Unison were recognised at the Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA) awards ceremony in Wellington. The ceremony is an… Continue reading »
The ex-Unitec student convicted of killing an elderly man outside the grounds of Unitec was sentenced to three years in jail today.
At the Auckland High Court today Bio O’Brien, who was studying civil engineering at… Continue reading »
Strike action at Unitec began today because negotiations over employment conditions have failed and lecturers say they will keep taking action until they get what they want.
Members of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) in… Continue reading »
On Saturday night (September 12) In Unison travelled down to Wellington for the Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA) Awards where we vied for awards alongside all the other student publications in New Zealand.
There were 18… Continue reading »
Ngahau i te po or Groove the Night was held to mark the end of the Annual AUT Maori Expo. The expo which had an estimated 20,000 attendants is a one of a kind event… Continue reading »
Sam Hunt says it very well in the touching and arresting introduction to this very attractive collection of one of New Zealand's most loved and greatest poets, James K. Baxter. “The poems here were the… Continue reading »
The last work I saw by the Hackman group was an excellently executed nostalgia trip, presented in the various church halls of our nation called Arohaotearoa; complete with lamingtons, sweater vests, and humorous tales of… Continue reading »
Sons Of Zion
Roots band Sons of Zion will be touring the country in 2010 promoting their new album, they’ll also be releasing another album towards the end of the year. In Unison caught up… Continue reading »
Crowds of ravers, glow sticks, and countless bottles of water were all well and good on New Years Eve. But come late January and the time was ripe for a picnic and something a little… Continue reading »
Tahuna Breaks
With eight current members Tahuna Breaks are a group whose strengths lie in live performances that get the crowd moving. Straight from performances at The Big Day Out and… Continue reading »
Fantastic Mr Fox.
Fantastic Mr Fox sounded like a film I wanted to see, but I hadn’t factored in friends who refused to accompany me to what they deemed “a kids’ movie”. I had to resort… Continue reading »
Photos by Erin Gaffney
last week In Unison checked out the latest talent to come from Auckland University of Technology’s fashion department. The Rookie Show, an annual event is about profiling final year fashion student’s hard… Continue reading »
Chick flicks are not considered as the highest quality movies you can watch, regardless, I still find myself liking them and enjoying the fact that you often know already by the posters how it will… Continue reading »
