By Ken McAlpine. Under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Regulations 2009, the NTEU is required to respond if the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) considers a rule of the Union to be difficult to interpret or apply. The NTEU is required to respond to that Report. More...

By Michael Evans. The Fairfax story also reflects the NTEU’s analysis of what to expect in this year’s Budget contained in the March 2017 edition of the NTEU’s Advocate (2017: Year of the Rooster or Year of the Feather Duster?) which states that the 2017 higher education budget will framed around the government’s intention to achieve budgetary savings in excess of $3billion from the higher education portfolio. More...

By Michael Evans. In May, NTEU will be inviting university staff to complete our 2017 State of the Uni Survey. 
This is the second biennial survey, the first in 2015 attracted nearly 8,000 respondents from universities around the country, both Union members and other staff. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The National Union of Students Welfare Department asked students from university campuses around the country why they needed their penalty rates, and why they were against the cuts. The answers have been turned into a short video. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the CSIRO Staff Association have called on their members to join March for Science events happening around Australia on Saturday 22 April 2017. More...

By Andrew MacDonald. Staff at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) can relate to the dissatisfaction expressed by students in the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) data released by the federal Department of Education this week, says National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Branch President, Vince Caughley. More...

By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union is pleased to endorse March for Science events being held around the country on Saturday 22 April, and encourages members and friends to get involved in their cities. More...

By Jeannie Rea. NTEU welcomed the safe return to Australia on 2 April of University of Technology Sydney Associate Professor Feng Chongyi, after his week-long detention in Guangzhou. 
Professor Feng being denied boarding his plane and undergoing questioning about his academic work provides a timely opportunity to consider the critical function of freedom of speech to a robust civil society. More...

By Jeannie Rea. The NTEU welcomes Universities Australia’s assurance that all particiapting universities will publicly release their institutional data resulting from the Human Rights Commission's survey on the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment of students in the higher education sector. More...