Extract from Preamble to NTESU constitution
To protect and advance the rights, opinions, needs and
interests of the membership of the National Tertiary Education Staff Union and
by extension the interests of Tertiary Education in
To eliminate differences in benefit,
entitlement and process and provide general protection for employees in the
sector.
To engender the principles of co-determination between
employer and employee and foster an environment that ensures current, or
higher, standards of excellence in the work, teaching and research of tertiary
education institutions.
To meet and respond to any perceived need to resolve
contemporary problems facing society and foster teaching and research in the fulfilment of justice, peace, equality and social harmony
and development.