By Andrew MacDonald. According to the front page of today’s (29 April 2016) Australian Financial Review, the government is proposing to introduce what is effectively a new study tax which would cut public subsidies to universities if they increase their fees above a certain level. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. Tonight’s (3/5/16) federal budget has revealed that after three years in office, the only plan the Abbott/Turnbull government has come up with for higher education is to cut funding and to make students pay more, concludes the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The NTEU says now that the government claims ‘full’ university fee deregulation is off the table, it must release its modelling of the impact that the Abbott/Turnbull government policy would have had on degree costs. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. On Tuesday night the Turnbull Liberal government confirmed its expected $224 million dollar budget cut to overseas aid this year.
These cuts hurt Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA and so, again, we need your help. (Chip in straight away by buying raffle tickets here or making a donation here). More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The following article has been published by the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET), of which NTEU is a member organisation. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has thrown their support behind Fossil Free Melbourne Uni’s campaign activities this week to pressure the university to divest from its fossil fuel assets. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) calls on the Australian Government to immediately hand over about $217m to universities.
The Union says that these funds in the form of efficiency dividend cuts from Australian universities in 2015 are now being illegally withheld, following the Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue the Parliament. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. Fossil Free student activists have been involved in wave of activity at campuses around the country this week, demanding universities divest from environmentally unsustainable fossil fuel assets. More...

By Jen T. Kwok. In 2015, ACOLA (Australian Council of Learned Academies) was asked by the Federal Minister for Education, Christopher Pyne, to undertake a review of Australia’s Research Training System. The review was tied to the federal government’s larger agenda on commercialisation of public research. The report of the review chaired by John McGagh, a former Rio Tinto executive, was released on 14 April 2016. More...

By Paul Kniest. Data contained in the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) Supplementary Report into the Higher Education Loans Prgramme released today (20 April 2016) confirms that the government’s attempts to contribute to budget repair by slashing university funding by 20% and allowing universities to charge students whatever they like for a degree will be short lived. More...