By Jeannie Rea. It’s not uncommon in many workplaces, and universities are no exception. It seems like such a little thing – working just a snippet of unpaid overtime here and there. An example of this, for professional staff at least, is working through lunch and not claiming the time (though the principle also applies to academic workloads). More...
13 juillet 2016
Unpaid overtime (Advocate 23 02)
The modern academix (Advocate 23 02)
By Jeannie Rea. A colleague of mine is a self-professed multidisciplinary economist. He bears the scars of the modern academic: he has moved several times for work, he told me of his research having suffered as a result of his teaching enterprises, and he was now three years into a five year, non-renewable research position. More...
Protesting posters (Advocate 23 02)
By Jeannie Rea. Utilising humour or satire as well as more serious or informational approaches, the posters confront themes that include student debt, increased staff workloads, precarious employment, poor morale, a toxic workplace culture encouraging obedient acquiescence, commercial and instrumental forms of training versus humanistic and critical education, collegial versus corporate management styles and, in broader terms, the idea that university education is a public good it is not solely for individual gain. More...
UK uni staff strike over real pay cuts (Advocate 23 02)
By Jeannie Rea. Members of the 110,000 strong University and College Union (UCU) walked out of universities across the UK on 25 and 26 May in a dispute over pay. More...
VCs must uphold freedom of expression. Editorial by Jeannie Rea (Advocate 23 02)
By Jeannie Rea. Backed up by her university Vice-Chancellor, ‘Sandy’ has borne the brunt of public debate over controversial education, research and community engagement about the centre she manages. She has been vilified on a personal and professional level, particularly by sections of the media, politicians and commentators who are intractably opposed to the centre’s work. More...
This is real – your vote does matter (Advocate 23 02)
By Jeannie Rea. In this long federal election campaign it has become far too easy to be cynical and to disengage other than to ‘like’ the occasional witty meme on Facebook. More...
Federal Budget & higher ed policy: Masterly inactivity or a study in ineptitude? (Advocate 23 02)
By Paul Kniest. When analysing the 2016-17 Federal Budget, one might be forgiven for thinking that the Government had adopted a position of ‘masterly inactivity’ when it came to higher education. More...
Latest Federal higher education policy changes
By Paul Kniest. The higher education polices contained in the June 2013 Issue of the NTEU’s Advocate include the policies as announced up to and including Friday 10 June 2016,when Advocate went to print. More...
Higher ed policy a major battle front (Advocate 23 02)
By Paul Kniest. The funding and regulation of higher education remain a highly contested policy area in the lead up to the 2016 Federal Election. While the Coalition Government has tried to neutralise the debate by taking full fee deregulation off the agenda, in undertaking further consultation, it remains fundamentally committed to the core of the policies it announced in 2014. More...
VET policy a failure (Advocate 23 02)
By Paul Kniest. The funding and regulation of vocational education and training (VET) has presented the Coalition Government with significant policy issues over the last three years. The expansion of demand driven fully contestable funding (between public TAFE and private providers) to all States and Territories has been, in anyone’s language, a complete and utter policy and market failure. More...
