Academic staff at Massey University have made a bid to save their jobs and ensure the future of sciences at the institution. Staff and the Tertiary Education Union have today sent Massey an alternative plan to the cuts the university is proposing as it stares down an unprecedented deficit. Reporter Jimmy Ellingham has the story.
Cash-strapped Massey University is wielding the axe, proposing to slash jobs and courses. Students and staff say the plan puts the university into a death spiral. If courses are cut expertise will be lost, and fewer people will choose to study there. Reporter Jimmy Ellingham has the story.