Authorized by Mary O'Neill Alliance Party Spokesperson for Napier 84 Shakespeare Road 4110 Bluff Hill Napier 021 138 9906 mary_oneill@clear.net.nz
ALLIANCE NEW ZEALAND'S DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PARTY PUTS PEOPLE FIRST
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Wairoa District Council happy on it's own
(Hawke's Bay's five local body authorities will be amalgamated into one region-wide council...The new "Hawke's Bay Council" would replace Wairoa District Council, Napier City Council, Hastings District Council, Central Hawke's Bay District Council and Hawke's Bay Regional Council. It would also include a small area of Rangitikei District." http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&obj)
Wairoa is in the Napier Electorate. Mary O'Neill Alliance Party Spokesperson for Napier met in Wairoa with Min Johansen who is a Wairoa City Councellor. " I believe Wairoa is sustainable on it's own. We've got agriculture, horticulture, as well as forestry and farming. Wairoa is here to stay. Wairoa has no debts. We done it on our own, " Mr Johansen said.
Wairoa has the longest rural roading in New Zealand. "Our rate payers pay for QRS (Quality Roading and Services). That's why a lot of funding is taken up on maintenance of these roads,” Min Johansen said. If we get amalgamated this costs will be absorbed by all.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Please pick up a pen and tick NO in the asset sales referendum
Don't split hairs, don't
sweat the small stuff, just pick up a pen and tick NO in the asset sales
referendum. It's the principle that is important, not whether or not
the National Govt will take any notice.
Be carefull what you wish for - Enrollment time at EIT
It's time for enrolment at EIT! Should parents know who their children are going to deal with and what level of education they are going to achieve? Yes they should ! As a matter of fact most of the EIT lecturers are not overly educated. Sheryl-Lee Judd who is a course coordinator for Certificate in Sport and Health Massage has completed a diloma level 4 in massage only.
For example if you enrol the Faculty of Sport and Health Science you may have a Canadian lecturer, if you not happy with results you can go to Head of School called Patrick Lander who is British. He will tell you - lecturer can do no wrong. If you still not happy you can go further to the Dean of EIT called Susan Jacobs who is American. In saying that there is a conflict in educational standards between NZ, UK, USA and Canada.
For example if you enrol the Faculty of Sport and Health Science you may have a Canadian lecturer, if you not happy with results you can go to Head of School called Patrick Lander who is British. He will tell you - lecturer can do no wrong. If you still not happy you can go further to the Dean of EIT called Susan Jacobs who is American. In saying that there is a conflict in educational standards between NZ, UK, USA and Canada.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Why do nursing students drop out of EIT (Eastern Institute of Technology) Hawke's Bay?
What is the reason for big nursing students drop out of EIT in 2013? Many of the nursing students who dropped out said that their lecturers do not have a trust in them. It appears that the lecturers questioned student's hygiene in order to humiliate students, and set them to fail (OSH Ocuppational Safety and Health). So many nursing students fail to graduate. It is not good.
EIT Hawke's Bay grabbed the money from Study Link and run! students will be left with no qualification.
EIT student Rachael Diffey says:
30 September, 2013 at 4:02 pm
A very timely article – "I am a student at EIT and we have just been informed of a proposal to discontinue the Counselling stream of the Applied Social Sciences degree at the end of 2015. This will mean that currently enrolled part-time students and all those who commenced in the July intake (full-time or part-time) will be unable to complete their studies. EIT will have taken their money, most of which will be funded by student loans, and the students will not have a qualification to show for it. There are only two other providers of a Counselling stream; Auckland and Wellington, and they do not offer distance learning, ie students would have to relocate. This is unrealistic for students with families etc. The whole proposal is fundamentally unfair and I haven’t even touched on the social implications. Unbelievable.
Would you be prepared to support our submission opposing the proposal?"
http://teu.ac.nz/2013/09/eit-boss-pockets-50000-as-polytechnic-struggles/
30 September, 2013 at 4:02 pm
A very timely article – "I am a student at EIT and we have just been informed of a proposal to discontinue the Counselling stream of the Applied Social Sciences degree at the end of 2015. This will mean that currently enrolled part-time students and all those who commenced in the July intake (full-time or part-time) will be unable to complete their studies. EIT will have taken their money, most of which will be funded by student loans, and the students will not have a qualification to show for it. There are only two other providers of a Counselling stream; Auckland and Wellington, and they do not offer distance learning, ie students would have to relocate. This is unrealistic for students with families etc. The whole proposal is fundamentally unfair and I haven’t even touched on the social implications. Unbelievable.
Would you be prepared to support our submission opposing the proposal?"
http://teu.ac.nz/2013/09/eit-boss-pockets-50000-as-polytechnic-struggles/
EIT Hawke's Bay - Chris Collins gets paid more than the Deputy Prime Minister of NZ
EIT Hawke's Bay - Chris Collins gets paid more than the Deputy Prime Minister of NZ
Chris Collins is Chief Executive at the EIT - Eastern Institute of Technology, a large public sector tertiary education institution based in Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti.
Chris Collins is Chief Executive at the EIT - Eastern Institute of Technology, a large public sector tertiary education institution based in Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti.
EIT boss pockets $50,000 as polytechnic struggles
EIT’s
chief executive Chris Collins received a pay rise of between 14 and 19
percent in the last reported year, according to information released last week by the State Services Commission.
Mr Collins’ remuneration rose from between $290,000-$299,999 in the year June 2011-12 to between $350,000-$359,999 in the year June 2012-13. That is an increase of at least 14 percent.
Meanwhile staff at EIT received a pay rise last year of 1.3 percent – just one tenth that of their highly paid boss. Moreover, students saw their fees rise by up to 4 percent.
TEU’s national secretary Sharn Riggs says EIT has its priorities wrong.
“The polytechnic needs to invest the money in the people who need it most, not the people who already have the most.”
At the end of last year, the polytechnic lost a significant amount of money when the government cut level 1 and 2 course funding to polytechnics. EIT ran a deficit budget last year as a result and now, just six weeks ago the polytechnic told staff that it would have to find $2 million dollars to make its budget for next year tally. That will mean budget cuts and some staff losing their jobs.
“Government funding cuts are hard enough for staff and students, without EIT’s council making the situation worse by giving the equivalent of a whole salary’s worth of pay rise to its chief executive,” said Sharn Riggs.
“Mr Collins now gets paid more than the deputy prime minister.”
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Mr Collins’ remuneration rose from between $290,000-$299,999 in the year June 2011-12 to between $350,000-$359,999 in the year June 2012-13. That is an increase of at least 14 percent.
Meanwhile staff at EIT received a pay rise last year of 1.3 percent – just one tenth that of their highly paid boss. Moreover, students saw their fees rise by up to 4 percent.
TEU’s national secretary Sharn Riggs says EIT has its priorities wrong.
“The polytechnic needs to invest the money in the people who need it most, not the people who already have the most.”
At the end of last year, the polytechnic lost a significant amount of money when the government cut level 1 and 2 course funding to polytechnics. EIT ran a deficit budget last year as a result and now, just six weeks ago the polytechnic told staff that it would have to find $2 million dollars to make its budget for next year tally. That will mean budget cuts and some staff losing their jobs.
“Government funding cuts are hard enough for staff and students, without EIT’s council making the situation worse by giving the equivalent of a whole salary’s worth of pay rise to its chief executive,” said Sharn Riggs.
“Mr Collins now gets paid more than the deputy prime minister.”
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