Simmonds said staff were "very anxious" about the direction "so it's important that we move quite quickly".īut moving quickly could lead to something else. "It's a very hard ask and, yeah, I don't envy them," said Daniel Benson-Guiu from the Tertiary Education Union. It's understood that included asking staff who established Te Pukenga to carry out disestablishing it. "But it was certainly a meeting where I had to make clear the change of direction by the current Government," she said. Simmonds said she wouldn't characterise it like that. Murray Strong quit as Te Pūkenga chair 10 days ago, and Newshub's been told "a meeting between Peter Winder, Murray Strong and the Minister was a total s**tshow with the Minister acting in a very unprofessional way". "I wish him well and I thank him and Murray for their service," Simmonds told Newshub. Starting at the top, chief executive Peter Winder is now gone. She was the boss of Southern Institute of Technology when the mega-merger happened, and now she's the minister, she's scrapping it. It was Te Pūkenga that motivated Penny Simmonds to go into politics.
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