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UCOL cutting the staff who lifted student results

23 May 2016
Tertiary Education Union - Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa

UCOL cutting the staff who lifted student results

UCOL needs to halt its proposed cuts to student support services now that it knows those services are improving student outcomes.

On Friday, in an email to all staff, UCOL released its provisional 2015 Educational Performance Indicator (EPI) results which show completion results for Level 1 to 2 courses rose 9 percentage points between 2014 and 2015. Completion rates for levels 3 to 4 also improved significantly, up 6 percentage points from the previous year.

UCOL is using the 2014 EPI results as one of the main justifications for reviewing its student support services and cutting staff jobs.

"However, these latest results show the people working to support UCOL's students are helping more of them to complete their studies and get important life and job skills," says local TEU organiser Lawrence O'Halloran.

TEU branch president Steve Wharehinga says the real pressure on students is the ongoing reviews and jobs cuts that people have dealt with the past six years because the government keeps cutting UCOL's funding.

Between 2010 and 2015 UCOL lost approximately $6.5 million in government funding.

"More job cuts will make it harder for students to learn, not easier," says Wharehinga.

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