By Paul Kniest. The NTEU drew upon latest Departmental staffing data to illustrate the scale of insecure employment and the overreliance upon short -term research contracts. In the Health AOU, more than half of academic staff by FTE are employed on an insecure basis. More...
By Paul Kniest. This morning’s Kudelka cartoon on Scott Morrison’s obsevation that the selection of sucessful ARC grants should somehow pass the “pub test”. More...
By Paul Kniest. As part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda announced in December 2015, the government agreed to adopt the recommendations of the Watt Review of Research Policy and Funding Arrangements. More...
By Jeannie Rea. Scholars at Risk, the international network dedicated to protecting scholars and the freedom to think, question and share ideas, is gravely concerned about the sweeping actions taken against Turkey’s higher education sector since the July 15th coup attempt. More...
By Jeannie Rea. NTEU branches are seeking clarification of their Vice Chancellors’ and University Councils’ positions. Subsequent to the failure of the Coalition to get their unfair and unsustainable higher education package through the Senate, universities have expressed a variety of opinions on undergraduate domestic fee deregulation. However, outright opposition is a firmer stance. More...
By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) was appalled to learn of the Australian Immigration Department’s decision to deny an application for permanent residency by a Monash University lecturer and his family because of their son’s disability. More...
By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) last week published a request from the Academics for Refugees group seeking support from colleagues in signing an open letter to the Prime Minister and all MPs, calling for a just and humane approach for refugees. More...
By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) supports students protesting the University of Sydney’s planned relocation of the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) from its current home in Callan Park. More...
By Jeannie Rea. The latest issue of Connect (vol. 9, no. 2), the NTEU & CAPA magazine for casual and sessional academics in Australian universities, is now available online as a PDF or an e-book. More...
By Paul Clifton. NTEU members can receive a 10% off the price of attending the 5th Annual Blended Learning Summit, 19-21 October 2016, Sydney, NSW. More...
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