By Paul Kniest. This morning’s Kudelka cartoon on Scott Morrison’s obsevation that the selection of sucessful ARC grants should somehow pass the “pub test”. More...
11 septembre 2016
11 septembre 2016
NTEU Response to Sharper incentives for engagement Consultation Paper July 2016
By Paul Kniest. As part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda announced in December 2015, the government agreed to adopt the recommendations of the Watt Review of Research Policy and Funding Arrangements. More...
11 septembre 2016
Expressions of support urged for Turkey’s threatened higher education sector
By Jeannie Rea. Scholars at Risk, the international network dedicated to protecting scholars and the freedom to think, question and share ideas, is gravely concerned about the sweeping actions taken against Turkey’s higher education sector since the July 15th coup attempt. More...
11 septembre 2016
22 Universities have come out against fee deregulation
By Jeannie Rea. NTEU branches are seeking clarification of their Vice Chancellors’ and University Councils’ positions. Subsequent to the failure of the Coalition to get their unfair and unsustainable higher education package through the Senate, universities have expressed a variety of opinions on undergraduate domestic fee deregulation. However, outright opposition is a firmer stance. More...
11 septembre 2016
NTEU appalled at decision to deny lecturer and family residency due to son’s autism
By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) was appalled to learn of the Australian Immigration Department’s decision to deny an application for permanent residency by a Monash University lecturer and his family because of their son’s disability. More...
11 septembre 2016
More than 1800 academics sign open letter calling for a just and humane approach for refugees
By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) last week published a request from the Academics for Refugees group seeking support from colleagues in signing an open letter to the Prime Minister and all MPs, calling for a just and humane approach for refugees. More...
11 septembre 2016
NTEU backs efforts to keep SCA at Callan Park
By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) supports students protesting the University of Sydney’s planned relocation of the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) from its current home in Callan Park. More...
11 septembre 2016
Connect, Aug 2016
By Jeannie Rea. The latest issue of Connect (vol. 9, no. 2), the NTEU & CAPA magazine for casual and sessional academics in Australian universities, is now available online as a PDF or an e-book. More...
11 septembre 2016
Member discount: 5th Annual Blended Learning Summit
By Paul Clifton. NTEU members can receive a 10% off the price of attending the 5th Annual Blended Learning Summit, 19-21 October 2016, Sydney, NSW. More...
11 septembre 2016
The Death of Socrates: Managerialism, metrics and bureaucratisation in universities (AUR 58 02)
By Ian Dobson. Neoliberalism exults the ability of unregulated markets to optimise human relations. Yet, as David Graeber has recently illustrated, it is paradoxically built on rigorous systems of rules, metrics and managers. The potential transition to a market-based tuition and research-funding model for higher education in Australia has, not surprisingly, been preceded by managerialism, metrics and bureaucratisation (rendered hereafter as ‘MMB’) in the internal functioning of universities in the last decade. More...
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