By Paul Kniest. The funding and regulation of vocational education and training (VET) has presented the Coalition Government with significant policy issues over the last three years. The expansion of demand driven fully contestable funding (between public TAFE and private providers) to all States and Territories has been, in anyone’s language, a complete and utter policy and market failure. More...
By Sarah Roberts. When the PM called this double dissolution election, it seemed it was set to be fought on the well-trodden terrain of industrial relations. More...
By Sarah Roberts. Due to public outcry against its ideas of raising the GST and allowing the States to charge tax, the Coalition has opted for safe Reaganomic rhetoric about ‘growing the pie’ and ‘the trickle-down effect.’ By contrast, Labor and the Greens have been running hard with relatively risky and innovative tax and superannuation policies. More...
By Terri Macdonald. Research and innovation is a key policy area targeted by all major political parties in the 2016 federal election. Indeed, while noting that it appears that you can’t have research without innovation, it has been bandied around to the point where it almost seems to be another three word election slogan. More...
By Terri Macdonald. The 2016 federal election campaign has seen a shift away from the mantra of ‘working families’, probably because both major political parties have realised that single women are now a substantial block of voters. More...
By Celeste Liddle. Australia stands at a significant point in history. A point where it can step out from the cloud of disappointment and dysfunction that it currently struggles under and move into a truly egalitarian position concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (A&TSI) Peoples. More...
By Sarah Roberts. NTEU’s recent online questionnaire of over 500 members and other university staff on fixed term contracts (who had responded to our State of the Uni survey) sought to dig a little deeper into the employment conditions of fixed term staff in higher education. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) says that voters in the 2016 federal election are being given a clear choice between market mayhem and public accountability when it comes to higher education policy. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The Federal Coalition Government has rejected a National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Freedom of Information (FOI) request for official modelling of the impact of full university fee deregulation, claiming: “the disclosure of these documents still has the potential to impact on the operation of a future higher education market.” More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is urging voters in the 2 July federal election to stand up for Australia’s world class higher education system by supporting those candidates endorsed as Defenders of Higher Education.
Defenders of Higher Education is an NTEU initiative designed help voters identify candidates who share the Union’s vision for an affordable, accessible and properly-funded higher education system, where entry is based solely on merit, not a student’s ability to pay the highest fees. More...
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