By Paul Jump for Times Higher Education. While ever-greater efforts are being made to have equal numbers of male and female speakers at academic conferences, a new study suggests women (at least those in Australia) may choose to maintain a lower profile. Read more...
By Daniel Hurst. Opposition and Greens won’t support legislation to enforce Gillard government’s university ‘efficiency dividend’ cuts, which were part of the Gonski reforms. More...
Public higher learning institutions will be required to start revenue generation to support their own programmes from next year.
A source at the Education Ministry said the plan was to create a sustainable university concept to keep up with the rising cost of higher education. She said the system was one of the highlights of the Malaysia Education Development Plan — Higher Education, to be launched in the first quarter. 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:
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:
By Jeannie Rea. NTEU members should be mighty proud of themselves as advocates for higher education speaking out against the plans of the Federal Government to wreak havoc upon our public and accessible higher education system.
We are out there protecting the essence of our current system of public higher education despite the many problems stemming from public funding shortfalls and poor university management decisions. More...
By Jeannie Rea. Held in the shadow of the wholesale attack by the federal Coalition Government on the expansion and democratisation of public higher education, the start of a new round of anti-worker industrial legislation and the loss of over 1500 jobs across the sector this year, the 2014 National Council Meeting was a fairly sombre affair.
Much of the discussion was upon the implementation of the current round of Collective Agreements, while noting and expressing solidarity with those universities still bargaining. Prompted by not only the changes going on in the sector already, but also the Bill before the Senate incorporating the higher education changes announced in the Federal Budget, there was a more overt general consensus towards connecting industrial implementation with broader campaigns over policy, governance and university budgets. More...
By Courtney Sloane. The Abbott Government’s own report from the Senate Committee Inquiry into the Higher Education and Research Reform in Australia (HERRA) Bill provides lackluster support, and in some cases shows clear trepidation to the Bill, according to the National Tertiary Education Union.
“The gross unfairness and inequity of deregulation couples with high interest rates on and funding cuts seems to have been a bit much even for the government members of the committee,” said NTEU National President Jeannie Rea. More...
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