Winning for Women tells the story of Iola Mathews’ career as a journalist working with The Age, then with the Public Service Board, followed by a tumultuous decade (1984-1994) working as an advocate at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Parallel to this career trajectory was her political activism as a founding member and supporter of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. More...

The question of whether the people in countries where most secondary school completers go onto tertiary education are any the happier as a result remains unexamined, but there is a sense that because countries with high participation systems of higher education (HPS hereafter) are better off economically, in general the people will be living a better life. High Participation Systems of Higher Education doesn’t explicitly make a case for or against the idea; that isn’t the purpose of a volume like this. More...

This book stands out from the crowd in a number of ways. For one thing, the book is about the world, working lives, working environment and day to day working experience of its academic authors. More...

In April 2019, the Australian Government’s well-regarded Endeavour Leadership Program was quietly scuttled. Since 2003, the Endeavour program (previously known as the Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships program) had supported Australian postgraduate students, researchers and career professionals to study overseas. It also brought talented international scholars and fellows to Australia from all over the world. More...

Martin Davies’ paper seeks to vindicate the efforts of the Ramsay Centre to fund courses in ‘Western Civilisation’ at selected Australian universities. He begins by lamenting the rejection of vast amounts of philanthropic money for the humanities, and all too quickly dismisses the stated grounds for the Australian National University’s decision to decline a deal with the Ramsay Centre: ‘The issue of academic autonomy has been raised as a reason, but this is, at best, ostensible’, Davies writes. He then goes on to defend the concept of courses in Western civilisation more generally. More...

In 2018 Australia’s leading national university, the ANU, decided to break off consultation with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation over a generous bequest to fund a course on Western civilisation. It is not every day that a university decides to turn down a $3 billion bequest to fund a humanities program. More...

Worldwide, neoliberalism has become the dominant paradigm for policy making and economic management (Roper, 2018). From the mid-1980s through to the turn of the millennium, neoliberalism became firmly rooted in Aotearoa/New Zealand higher education and since this period its influence has been strengthened by various governments. More...

The UQ Branch of the NTEU condemns yesterday's violent attack on a peaceful pro-democracy gathering of Hong Kong students and their supporters on St Lucia campus. Threats, intimidation or force against students or staff rallying in defence of democracy and human rights, and acts of racism against any international students, are unacceptable at this university. More...

The latest issue (vol. 12, no. 2) of Connect, NTEU's magazine for casual and sessional academics in Australian universities, is now available. More...

The National Union of Students (NUS) and National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) stand together to demand climate action, and call on students and the wider university community to attend the mass university student walkout for climate action across the country on the 9th of August. More...