The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is looking for an administrative clerk with organizational skills and experience. You will have good communication and interpersonal skills to support the implementation of the Institute’s programmes. You will work with an enthusiastic and international team that works to promote lifelong learning worldwide. More...
By Michael Evans. The NTEU is proud to announce that Professor Dennis Altman will present the 6th NTEU Lecture in Sydney on 1 December, under the title ‘Reviving Civic Culture after Trump: The Role of Universities.’ More...
By Jeannie Rea. Australian Unions have embarked on 16 days of action on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25/11/2016), which the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) strongly supports. More...
By Jeannie Rea. Under proposed government changes to paid parental leave (PPL), higher education workers on PPL stand to lose $12,000 (18 weeks’ pay at the minimum wage) - severely impacting time to spend with their new baby. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is encouraging staff in Australian universities to participate in Go Home On Time Day on Wednesday 23 November 2016, and join the national conversation about the huge amounts of unpaid overtime being worked across the economy. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. According to the latest figures from The Australia Institute, unpaid overtime in the workplace costs households in Australia $116 billion each year.
Data from the NTEU’s 2015 State of the Uni survey also suggests staff in universities worked more than 250 million uncompensated hours, and contributed almost $1.7 billion in free labour to employers. More...
By Paul Kniest. The pilot studies are intended to test the robustness of a wide range of indicators and methods of assessment for both research engagement and impact and will cover both quantitative and qualitative information and involve universities, industry and other end users. More...
The QS World Grad School Tour has collected over a period of two years a total of nearly 16,000 survey responses from prospective international postgraduate students from the emerging markets of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria in addition to China and India. More...
The 48th TOP500 international ranking of supercomputing capacity has been published. The list of 500 systems, from which a variety of sublists can be generated, was started in June 1993 and is published twice a year. The current authors are Erich Strohmaier of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim. More...
Posted . The role of fiscal policy has been at the heart of the policy debate since the financial crisis. With the global economy stuck in a low-growth trap and monetary policy overburdened, it is time to re-assess the use of fiscal policy levers. More...
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