Over the past decade the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has consistently called on governments, both Labor and Coalition, to develop a coherent regulatory and funding framework for post-secondary education in Australia.
As such NTEU supports the Australian Labor Party (ALP) announcement today that it will conduct a thorough investigation into post-school education and training in Australia within 100 days of being elected. More...

This year for International Women's Day (IWD) the ACTU and unions are continuing efforts on paid domestic violence leave and supporting the International Trade Union Confederation's (ITUC) global campaign on violence against women at work. More...

Hello everyone from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit! 
We hope the academic year is going well so far. To those new to the NTEU, eYarn is the unit’s email circular – a short guide to what is going on around the traps. We send it out roughly every couple of months as needs be to keep you all informed of developments. More...

The United Nations Women’s website says “International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.”
Yes – it is. And UN have declared the theme for IWD 2018 - Time is now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives. More...

Her new book, How to be an Academic, draws heavily on the blogs and posts she has put on the site over the years; which in the hands of a less skilled narrator would be enough to suggest double-dipping and cashing-in. But Mewburn is a skilled communicator and instead of cutting and pasting what is already out there, she organises and contextualises her contentions without resorting to the usual academic sleight-of-hand of couching everything in terms of one standardised theoretical framework or other, like ‘looking through a phenomenological lens’ or ‘coming at it as postmodernist functionary’. More...

As he reveals in this memoir, Gareth Evans was one of only two cabinet members to have served for the totality of the Hawke/Keating governments (the other was Ralph Willis). This book follows his Inside the Hawke Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary (2014), which covered the period from September 1984 to October 1986. Ultimately, various pressures left him unable to continue the diary while a minister – more’s the pity. In this more conventional format, he tells the story of a substantial public career – before, in and after parliament. More...

Paramedics are an integral part of the Australian healthcare system and are increasingly requested to provide a growing array of services in support of improved community health. Currently there are over 6,000 undergraduate paramedic students. A pressing challenge is the development and sustainability of a dedicated group of university paramedic academics. More...

Universities seek to promote student learning, but assessment and credentials can undermine students' intrinsic motivation to learn. Findings from research on how people learn, mindsets, expert performance and good health are seldom incorporated into the way universities organise learning experiences. More...

During the past three decades, the student populations of Australian universities have become more heterogeneous as the higher education sector expanded and new alternative entry pathways were established. Broadening access to university study and, therefore, to professional and semi-professional occupations, provides avenues for social mobility. More...

While there has been considerable research on doctoral examination there is little that examines the various roles of the oral component and what issues one might consider if introducing or revising that aspect of the thesis examination process. This matter is of particular importance in Australia where it is not usual to have an oral component as part of the final assessment. However, there are a number of Australian institutions considering the introduction of an oral component. More...