By Ken McAlpine. Many students benefit from placements and work experience opportunities during courses of study, in the university and vocational education sectors. In fact, learning practical professional and technical work skills in real workplaces is often a pre-requisite for completing a qualification. More...

By Matthew McGowan. The project seeks to interview 50 women, across different unions, to tell their stories of their own lived experience as women activists in Australian unions. More...

By Matthew McGowan. The Federal Election outcome has finally put to rest the Coalition’s university deregulation agenda. On current expectations, NTEU's Defenders of Higher Education are very likely to have sufficient votes in the Senate to block any new attempts to push a privatisation agenda on the university sector. More...

By Jeannie Rea. In the last round of enterprise bargaining, the NTEU successfully negotiated provisions to support people dealing with domestic violence, including extra leave and support in the workplace to ensure that people can hold onto their jobs. More...

By Paul Clifton. The recent filing of applications in the Fair Work Commission seeking good faith bargaining orders against NTEU by the management of three WA universities is the latest in a series of signals that vice-chancellors are taking a different and more aggressive approach to industrial relations than ever seen previously in the sector. More...

By Paul Kniest. About two-thirds of Australians support marriage equality according to polls, but a significant number of Coalition politicians, conservative religious groups and influential individuals back the status quo and have been doing their best recently to dominate the debate. More...

By Paul Kniest. One of the most disappointing and frustrating aspects of this election campaign is the lack of emphasis on what is, by any measure, the most challenging issue facing our nation and the world – climate change. More...

By Paul Kniest. I told my students I was off to the circus. And indeed, in many ways Canberra is an enormous ongoing unfunny spectacle – the Hill being less entertaining, more cruel and more detached from reality than the average big tent. More...

By Paul Kniest. Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Waikato have both announced that they plan to sell off their foundation studies programs to multinational private companies. More...

By Paul Kniest. Your latest fixed-term academic contract is drawing to a close and you’ve started looking for the next role, maybe in a new city. You’ve found a few roles in your field, in locations you could contemplate living in, and sit down to start applying. More...