By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) was appalled to learn of the Australian Immigration Department’s decision to deny an application for permanent residency by a Monash University lecturer and his family because of their son’s disability. More...

By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) last week published a request from the Academics for Refugees group seeking support from colleagues in signing an open letter to the Prime Minister and all MPs, calling for a just and humane approach for refugees. More...

By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) supports students protesting the University of Sydney’s planned relocation of the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) from its current home in Callan Park. More...

By Jeannie Rea. The latest issue of Connect (vol. 9, no. 2), the NTEU & CAPA magazine for casual and sessional academics in Australian universities, is now available online as a PDF or an e-book. More...

By Paul Clifton. NTEU members can receive a 10% off the price of attending the 5th Annual Blended Learning Summit, 19-21 October 2016, Sydney, NSW. More...

By Ian Dobson. Neoliberalism exults the ability of unregulated markets to optimise human relations. Yet, as David Graeber has recently illustrated, it is paradoxically built on rigorous systems of rules, metrics and managers. The potential transition to a market-based tuition and research-funding model for higher education in Australia has, not surprisingly, been preceded by managerialism, metrics and bureaucratisation (rendered hereafter as ‘MMB’) in the internal functioning of universities in the last decade. More...

By Ian Dobson. The withdrawal of government funding and fee deregulation is the core issue for Australian higher education. It is even more stark because we have a largely government founded system. Colonial and state governments established universities, as well as teacher training and technical institutes and further education colleges. More...

By Ian Dobson. Given the role of multinational corporations in contributing to the looming global environmental, social and financial crises; and their increasing influence on all forms of education, including university education, there has never been a more important time to rethink the meaning of a good university in Australia. More...

By Ian Dobson. The intention of this gathering in November 2015 was to share critical reflections on various aspects of today’s university system – focusing on the incursions of corporations into the tertiary sector, especially in the areas of teaching and research – but chiefly to consider alternatives to current institutional arrangements. More...

By Ian Dobson. Universities today are defined by their commitment to private sector management, with CEOs at the helm (on salaries of $1 million or more), and military, pharmaceutical, biotech and mining industries, amongst others, driving commercial research agendas. More...