In May, the Higher Education Standards Panel (HESP) released a final report on improving retention, completion and success in higher education. This report is the culmination of a longer investigation initiated by the Minister for Higher Education into factors affecting attrition rates at our universities following the release in late 2016 of the Department of Education and Training’s cohort analysis on completion rates. More...

Almost six-out-of-ten of 2,500 respondents to a recent NTEU survey of members reported a response rate on student evaluation surveys of 30 per cent or less. Almost nine-in-ten believed that surveys are used to appraise and manage staff performance. More...

Last December, the Australian National University (ANU) announced that it was negotiating with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation to host a new teaching program in Western Civilisation. More...

This year marks 20 years since the first NTEU National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Forum was held. This was an historic gathering as it was one of the first union gatherings to be held in the country focussed entirely on the struggles and working conditions of A&TSI union members. More...

Cultural and ceremonial leave provisions in Awards and Enterprise Agreements have been instituted to recognise the cultural diversity of the Australian workforce, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees. More...

Between 29 April and 19 May, several hundred thousand people attended nineteen Change the Rules rallies held in capital and major regional cities across Australia. The largest of these was the Melbourne rally, with an estimated 100,000 plus people attending. More...

NTEU’s national Women’s Action Committee (WAC) are excited because the ACTU Change the Rules campaign identified that the headline reasons for changing the employment laws are that the current rules are not helping achieve gender pay equity, secure jobs or equality for women workers. More...

Blessed with a sudden and unanticipated increase in revenue, the centrepiece of Treasurer Scott Morrison’s third Budget was the Government’s personal income tax plan which will cost the Budget $13.4 billion over the four-year forward estimates. The proposed tax cuts however will result in a very significant reduction in government revenue of some $140 billion over a ten year period, as the more expensive tax cuts, which are targeted predominantly at people on higher incomes, kick in from 2024–25 onwards. More...

Following a decade of advocacy by Melbourne-founded ICAN and its partners, on 7 July 2017, 122 nations voted to adopt the historic global agreement to ban nuclear weapons. The Australian Government did not attend the conference and is not a signatory, and the Coalition will not consider signing it. The Coalition maintains that they cannot afford to alienate the United States, which refuses to even countenance the Treaty. More...

NTEU National Executive unanimously carried a resolution expressing NTEU’s deep appreciation of Senator Rhiannon’s consistent and positive support of our union in both our industrial and political campaigns, and for free, accessible and fully funded public education. More...