The National Tertary Education Union welcomes the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations' endorsment of the 8 August National Day of protest on university campuses around the country. More...

National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at James Cook University (JCU) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of escalating their campaign, through industrial action, to improve job security, pay and conditions in a new Enterprise Agreement. More...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) says that responsibility for responding to the findings of the national survey on sexual harassment and sexual assault at Australian universities lies with university managements.
“For too long students and staff at Australian universities have been ignored, criticised and often silenced for speaking out on sexual violence on our campuses,” said Jeannie Rea, NTEU National President. More...

This morning the NTEU, along with other sector stakeholders including NUS, presented evidence to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and Employment Legislation Committee inquiry into Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (A More Sustainable, Responsive and Transparent Higher Education System) Bill 2017. More...

At least 23,427 academics have either lost their jobs at universities when their contracts were terminated or were dismissed from their positions, or the universities where they worked were closed down by the government since 1 September, 2016, according to a BBC report last week.
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) calls upon members to write and sign onto to letters of protest and petitions. Further, the NTEU encourages more specific and strategically focussed actions to support Turkish colleagues. More...

Education is nothing like chocolate or cheese, as my colleague tells her students, but this point doesn’t seem to have been grasped by the New Zealand Government which is rushing through with plans to further open up the country’s ‘tertiary education market’. More...

I must confess I’ve only got as far as generating a series of provocative book titles like Unsatisfactory peer review and n=1 is the loneliest number, but my campus romance novel writer fantasy has certainly kept me amused during boring committee meetings. In a small corner of my soul I imagine these books, should I ever get around to writing them, would help me transition into an academic afterlife as a best-selling romance writer. To be honest, this seems like a natural next step after being a celebrity blogger. More...

The March for Science was an amazing development. It began in the USA as a response to the attacks by the Trump administration on science in particular and evidence-based policy in general. But the problem is not confined to the US, although it is obviously an extreme example. More...

Hardly a week goes by that some elderly sage doesn’t condemn social media for shrinking the brains of the young. Twitter comes in for more than its fair share of the criticism because of its apparent limit to 140 characters – almost as though multiple tweets and embedded links to webpage documents and images were not possible. True, a single, isolated tweet requires a very short attention-span, but to blame Twitter for shrinking attention-spans in Millenials puts the cart before the horse and misconstrues the way in which Twitter is best used. More...

Suggestions of Russian interference, military posturing, a sacked FBI Director’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee and speculation about ‘secret tapes’. Given these are among the dramas which have beset the presidency of Donald Trump, it is perhaps understandable that the international media has been kept enthralled by plotlines which wouldn’t be out of place in a spy thriller. Yet while the Administration’s higher profile scandals have hogged most of the headlines, the implementation of President Trump’s agenda domestically has also caused some concern, including in relation higher education. More...