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19 novembre 2018

National Council 2018: Celebrating 25 years of tertiary education unionism & a new era (Advocate 25 03)

Council endorsed the unanimous resolution from the 2018 NTEU Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander National Forum where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates moved to continue the NTEU campaign to see treaties negotiated between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the Crown. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Jeannie Rea: feminist, educator, activist and unionist (Advocate 25 03)

Her profound commitments to social justice, feminism, the rights of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, and the peace movement have informed her work as an academic as well as a unionist. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Grahame McCulloch’s legacy is the Union itself (Advocate 25 03)

I recently listened to a podcast lecture series about the American Revolution. The Harvard professor drew an important lesson from the victory of the American colonists. This was that in hindsight, we tend to see historical events as inevitable. Yet the facts tell us that their defeat of the British was a combination of very good luck, part of which was their remarkable leaders. More...

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19 novembre 2018

United we stood. We were going to move mountains (Advocate 25 03)

It is a great pleasure for me, Grahame, to speak here tonight at your retirement dinner. I myself have been the subject of such a dinner a couple of months ago, when I retired as EI GS, so I think I understand what you are going through. And, in the words of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhaur: “The worst is yet to come”. The withdrawal symptoms I mean. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Media Release: Regional unis and research funding - Tehan giving with one hand while taking with the other

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is totally perplexed to hear that the much needed additional funding of $134.8m announced this morning by the Minister for Education and Training, Dan Tehan, to assist regional universities is the money to be cut from research block grant funding over the next five years - very much a case of giving with one hand while taking with the other. More...

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19 novembre 2018

FWC notice

The National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) lodged with the Fair Work Commission a Notice setting out eight alterations to the registered Rules of the Union on 9 November 2018. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Expectations of Labor in government (Advocate 25 03)

Last time the ALP was in government federally a foolish decision was made to pay for a school funding reform program by cutting university funding and higher education student financial support.
NTEU immediately condemned the decision, arguing that cutting post-school funding to pay for school funding was short-sighted and even cynical. The Australian Education Union, who had campaigned tirelessly for the school funding reforms, stood with NTEU in protesting cutting higher education funding. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Media Release: Dan Tehan’s ‘fix’ on ARC grants is woefully inadequate

Education Minister Dan Tehan’s announcement of a new rule requiring the Minister to reveal when an Australian Research Council (ARC) recommended grant is blocked at ministerial level, doesn’t go anywhere near far enough, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said today. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Media Release: Crisis of Academic Freedom Emanates from Former Minister’s Office

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) condemns the decision by former Minister for Education and Training, Senator Simon Birmingham, to directly interfere in competitive research grants process and reject eleven research grants worth over $4m, which was revealed in last night’s Senate Education and Employment Committee Estimates hearing. More...

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19 novembre 2018

What’s holding Africa’s young scientists back?

By Munyaradzi Makoni and Sharon Dell. The continued dependence of African higher education on international science funding, along with insufficient mentoring programmes and the legacy of the brain drain, are among key constraints to the progress of young African scientists, according to a comprehensive new book. More...

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