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The Europe 2020 strategy was launched in March 2010 as the EU's strategy for promoting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. It aims to achieve a knowledge-based, competitive European economy while preserving the EU's social market economy model and improving resource efficiency. It was thus conceived as a partnership between the EU and its Member States driven by the promotion of growth and jobs.
Please, find attached the PDF document with the answers to the Europe 2020 questionnaire. More...

Co-financed by the European Commission within the framework of the SAVES project, the Student Switch Off Campaign is launching in 5 European countries in September and October 2014.
Student Switch Off is an action aiming at promoting energy saving behavior among the students living in dormitories, first set up by the National Union of Students of United Kingdom (NUS UK). Participating dormitories are put in a competition to save the most energy by simple everyday actions, like putting a lid on a saucepan, switching off light when not used, avoiding boiling more water than needed or putting on a jumper instead of heating. Last academic year the campaign contributed to cutting 3 000 tonnes of carbon and saved the education sector £400 000! More...

By Jen T. Kwok. This article is written by Erica Cervini who writes the Third Degree blog and is a long-time observer of Australia's higher education scene.
School-leavers who do degrees are winners. They can hope to earn more over a lifetime of work than those without a higher education.
But what about mature-age students? Is it worth studying for a first degree as an older student?
There are many issues to factor in. Mature-age students may have to give up a job to study. And there is no guarantee that employers will want to take on older workers who are beginning their careers in law, public relations or teaching.
Mature-age students may take longer to complete their degrees if they have children to look after or older parents to care for. More...

By Grahame McCulloch. The past few months have seen the Union deliver salary increases of between 3.15% and 3.25% at 6 more Universities, as well as securing good outcomes on our key claims. 
As this round of enterprise bargaining draws to a close, the Union will work towards finalising Agreements at the University of the Sunshine Coast, the University of Wollongong, Southern Cross University, the University of New South Wales and Federation University of Australia, by the end of this year. More...

By Paul Kniest. An NTEU analysis of evidence, including submissions and evidence given to the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014 questions the strength of our universities support for the government’s higher education policies, especially in relation to: 

• fee deregulation,
• a structural adjustment package for universities,  and
• an independent oversight body. More...

By Paul Clifton. Academics are teachers and researchers and administrators. Many are also writers, whether it is of journal articles or scientific papers or scholarly monographs. For many academics, writing for publication is required for their promotion. Some also write outside of their work, whether it is fiction or non-fiction, poetry or opinion pieces. Whatever form of writing is done, what is produced automatically accrues important rights that shouldn’t be ignored.
The principal right of an author is copyright, which ensures that the literary work is their legal property and can’t be reproduced without their permission. This is a right that has been enshrined in national copyright laws around the world, including in Australia. The protection of copyright, and the rights of authors more generally, has been the principal aim and activity of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) for the last half century. More...

By Paul Clifton. The vice-chancellors of Canberra’s two universities have been high-profile advocates for opposite sides in the debate over the future of higher education funding.
In one corner Ian Young, Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) and current Chair of the Group of Eight, is the champion for universities’ support of deregulation. He has called it ‘a game-changer and a building block to making our universities brilliant’. More...

By Terri Macdonald. An NTEU analysis of evidence, including submissions and evidence given to the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014 questions the strength of our universities support for the government’s higher education policies, especially in relation to: 

• fee deregulation,
• a structural adjustment package for universities,  and
• an independent oversight body. More...

By Terri Macdonald. The NTEU has made a submission to the Department of Education's discussion paper on proposed reforms of the ESOS framework.
In our submission to the 2009 Baird Review of the ESOS Act, NTEU made a number of recommendations regarding the structure of ESOS and associated accountability frameworks. We were pleased to see that a number of these, particularly around the Tuition Protection Service requirements, were adopted by government. We also called for a substantive re-evaluation of Australia's international education system beyond those ostensibly covered by the review of the ESOS framework. More...

By Jeannie Rea. When the NTEU was giving evidence to the Senate Inquiry into the Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment (HERRA) Bill on 8 October 2014, the chair, National Party Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie accused the Union of scaremongering because we were saying that some degrees will cost $100,000 if the Bill goes through. However, our modelling, along with that of others, does indeed show this to be the case with the increased tuition fees alone, but once the market interest rate is included the total costs nudge towards and beyond $100,000. More...