By Paul Kniest. The NTEU has today released a briefing note, entitled Changing Australia's Research Agenda: From 'publish or perish' to 'collaborate or crumble' which examines the impact of a number of recent policy announcements on higher education. More...

By Jen T. Kwok. University research in Australia is improving, according to the latest round of results from the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) audit.
Every two to three years the ERA reviews hundreds of thousands of research papers from researchers in universities across Australia. More...

By Susan Kenna. You are invited to sign a letter to be sent to the Prime Minister, from academics throughout Australia. It requests that the Australian government release all children who are being held at the Nauru Offshore Processing Centre and in detention in Australia be released with their families in time for the holiday season. The letter is at https://academicsforrefugees.wordpress.com. More...

By Susan Kenna. One piece of good news is that the Government proposes to change the ‘work test’ for access to their PPL.  Currently employees must have no more than an 8 weeks gap between consecutive work days in order to be eligible.  NTEU has lobbied on behalf of casual and contract workers for this gap to be increased to 14 weeks; the Government’s plans are to increase the gap to 12 weeks. More...

By Terri Macdonald. A great deal of noise and activity (mostly in the form of MP media releases) has occurred this week as the Turnbull Government launched its much feted Innovation Agenda on Monday (see Universities expected to lift business sector out of innovation doldrums). More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The report into the Victorian Review of VET Funding undertaken by Bruce Mackenzie and Neil Coulson and released 17 December 2015 indicates that the deregulation of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and the introduction of fully contestable funding has been a complete and utter policy failure now requiring urgent reform. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. To mark the end of 2015 the NTEU today releases a briefing paper, Changing Australia’s Research Agenda:  From ‘publish or perish’ to ‘collaborate or crumble’ that analyses several important policy announcements, including the release of the government’s highly publicised innovation agenda. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union has raised a dispute with University of Western Australia Vice-Chancellor Paul Johnson following his announcement last week that he will sack 200 general staff and 100 academic staff next year. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union today congratulated Year 12 students who have received their end-of-school results, and wished them well in their applications for tertiary education places. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The announcement that 300 staff are to be sacked from the University of Western Australia in 2016 is a move that is both unjustified and cynical according to the National Tertiary Education Union. More...