A media report that the federal government’s proposals about performance-based funding for universities might include criteria related to student loan repayments is one of the more bizarre suggestions around university funding, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said today. More...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) warned that the measures for distributing $80 million in performance-based funding announced today by the Minister for Education, Dan Tehan, will have many foreseeable, albeit presumably unintended, perverse consequences. More...

While welcoming the announcement by Universities Australia (UA) of the second national survey into sexual harassment and assaults on university campuses, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has hit back at a lack of commitment to addressing the safety and health of members of their workforce who are also subject to sexual assault and harassment. More...

NTEU stands in solidarity with our comrades of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) and supports their demands for the Hong Kong Government to uphold freedom of assembly and free speech, for the release of arrested protesters, and an independent inquiry into human rights abuses by police. More...

Science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) are skills our students and we are all supposed to have to succeed in the global economy. This has been the mantra for quite some time. Gerald Coles’ Miseducating for the Global Economy takes a critical look at what we are told by people who hardly ever enter a classroom but are called educational experts or educational policy makers, and politicians, the corporate media, and state officials. More...

NTEU members at University of Canberra College (UCC) walked off the job for 30 minutes on 19 June to have a Solidarity Morning Tea. More...

After 7 months of management intransigence, NTEU members at University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) voted for industrial action at the beginning of May. More...

With the approval by NTEU National Executive of Agreements at the University of Canberra (UC), University of South Australia (UniSA), and Federation University Australia (FUA), Round 7 of bargaining is well and truly coming to a close. More...

On June 11 and 12, Monash staff at Caulfield and Clayton took a 73 minute Stop Work to protest the fact that 73% of Monash’s professional and academic staff are in insecure work – the highest rate of insecure work of all campuses in Victoria. The NTEU used the 73 minutes to reach out to students by holding a free pizza lunch protest. More...

With a new Morrison-led Government returned, it’s an understatement to say that the results of the 2019 Federal Election were certainly not what we had hoped for. Despite the confidence of both commentators and the polls that a Labor victory was all but assured, the electorate had a different view. More...