Scandalous...total, utter, blatant disregard for the students......
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frances phillips
12 years ago
Where would the world be without teachers one asks?
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Shelley Te Haara
12 years ago
There is SO much more going on behind closed doors and it is all COMPLETE rubbish! None of these changes will help in any way!
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Angelica Manaois
12 years ago
As a student I refuse to be a guinea pig.
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Elizabeth Rankin
12 years ago
I urge Unitec to reconsider these draconian measures.
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Bill McKay
12 years ago
This is an attempt to replace education with training. It is short sighted and will do no good for the Design profession in the long run. The current success of New Zealand's design professions and industry has been built on high quality Degree level education that involves staff with expertise in teaching, research and practice. Unitec's restructuring is short sighted, it will result in low level, apprentice style training that won't actually meet the needs of local businesses and certainly won't rate internationally.
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Ginette
12 years ago
So wrong and unfair - listen to the students!
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Conor Findlay
12 years ago
this is going to impact my learning servilely, the lose of my lecturers will result in my course being deliver din a poor and unprofessional means which will in turn affect the learning outcomes of me and my fellow students.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
I am not a current student at Unitec - I was going to apply for next year based on the veery strong reputation of the school in the photography department. This reputation mainly relied upon the weather of teaching experience that the staff at Unitec had. While I support introduction of industry experts into the program, I do not see how industry professionals can have more than twice the ability to TEACH a subject that those people whose INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE is as TEACHERS of the subject in question. Indroducing industry experts can augment a program - and probably should - but are they going to give up their industry jobs to become teachers? No. If they did, they would be teachers - but unqualified to do so - so therefore, would be made redundant anyway.
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Alma Rae
12 years ago
Another fail for education.
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Flo Wilson
12 years ago
Simply ridiculous. As if the arts weren't underfunded enough without massive cuts to teaching staff as well!
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Richard Nicholas
12 years ago
I value my education!!
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Paul Corliss
12 years ago
Your reputation as a place of quality education is being seriously undermined by this atrocious and short-sighted behaviour
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Natasha bell
12 years ago
This redundancy will severely affect the teaching quality of this course
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Jaime Shearer
12 years ago
So typical
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ByungMo
12 years ago
It's going to be harder haha..
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Rowland Weston
12 years ago
Please do not take this extraordinarily retrograde step. Please.
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Emily hunt
12 years ago
It's just not good enough
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Ian logie
12 years ago
The comment on TV tonight that this is not a cost-cutting measure has more than strained Unitec's credibility.
Give the students what they paid for.
Scandalous...total, utter, blatant disregard for the students......
Where would the world be without teachers one asks?
There is SO much more going on behind closed doors and it is all COMPLETE rubbish! None of these changes will help in any way!
As a student I refuse to be a guinea pig.
I urge Unitec to reconsider these draconian measures.
This is an attempt to replace education with training. It is short sighted and will do no good for the Design profession in the long run. The current success of New Zealand's design professions and industry has been built on high quality Degree level education that involves staff with expertise in teaching, research and practice. Unitec's restructuring is short sighted, it will result in low level, apprentice style training that won't actually meet the needs of local businesses and certainly won't rate internationally.
So wrong and unfair - listen to the students!
this is going to impact my learning servilely, the lose of my lecturers will result in my course being deliver din a poor and unprofessional means which will in turn affect the learning outcomes of me and my fellow students.
I am not a current student at Unitec - I was going to apply for next year based on the veery strong reputation of the school in the photography department. This reputation mainly relied upon the weather of teaching experience that the staff at Unitec had. While I support introduction of industry experts into the program, I do not see how industry professionals can have more than twice the ability to TEACH a subject that those people whose INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE is as TEACHERS of the subject in question. Indroducing industry experts can augment a program - and probably should - but are they going to give up their industry jobs to become teachers? No. If they did, they would be teachers - but unqualified to do so - so therefore, would be made redundant anyway.
Another fail for education.
Simply ridiculous. As if the arts weren't underfunded enough without massive cuts to teaching staff as well!
I value my education!!
Your reputation as a place of quality education is being seriously undermined by this atrocious and short-sighted behaviour
This redundancy will severely affect the teaching quality of this course
So typical
It's going to be harder haha..
Please do not take this extraordinarily retrograde step. Please.
It's just not good enough
The comment on TV tonight that this is not a cost-cutting measure has more than strained Unitec's credibility.