A disagreement has erupted at the University of Auckland, where professors have taken the rare step of staging an emergency vote in response to a controversial proposal to review and potentially cut smaller undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
The proposed changes, aimed at streamlining the university’s course offerings, sparked widespread concern among academics who feared that the expedited process could undermine the quality of education and diminish the variety of specialist courses.
The university’s administration defended the review as part of standard practice, meant to eliminate unnecessary duplication and balance the course portfolio.
However, the senate, a body of top faculty members, voted overwhelmingly to pause a broader curriculum transformation program, signaling a deep disconnect between the academic staff and university leadership.
The stand-off has drawn in both the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) and the Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA), who voiced their frustrations over the lack of communication and transparency in the process.
Professors told legacy media of their concerns that the review was being rushed without proper consideration of the long-term impact on accredited degrees and student learning. Some faculty members even hinted at the possibility of a no-confidence vote against the university’s leadership if the issues remain unresolved.
The senate’s vote will now be reviewed by the university council, as the academic community awaits a response to their call for a more measured approach to curriculum changes.
They clearly intend dumbing people down.
The education system keeps you thick while the health system keeps you sick.
And all because people trust the corporate state and its uni -party puppets.
Without a degree in intersectional feminism, how will my daughter get that job at Starbucks? 😡
They produced the purple haired liar.
Nobody believes or trusts these organisations nor their self proclaimed expert liars they produce anymore
Serves them right.
They still work against revealing the truth.
They produce sausage headed parrots who repeat their programming and police others.
Thank rhe groomericans for retarding our people with screwy education and fluoride.
Oh well. Guess nobody cares.
I’ve seen where this leads first hand when doing my masters off shore. I agree, not a good move.
What was it like offshore?
A decent course with a HUGE workload, more expensive than NZ. What made it hard was they shortened the uni year (I’m guessing to save $$) making the whole thing feel more pressurised than I felt it needed to be. Course’s were changed too, you could see what they were but what they became, could be frustrating and made learning more challenging and time intensive.
There are hardly any professors left; most are confessors and they rarely “profess”. Woke Poisson is the reason.
Close them down.
Gender studies, nup, my kids are going to Poland of their university study.
Woke morons masquerading as ‘professors’.
Hilarious and sad.
They should call it university of Maori and Woke for dummies.