By Andrew MacDonald. On Tuesday night the Turnbull Liberal government confirmed its expected $224 million dollar budget cut to overseas aid this year.
These cuts hurt Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA and so, again, we need your help. (Chip in straight away by buying raffle tickets here or making a donation here). More...
Labour rights, the upcoming election & the TPP
By Andrew MacDonald. The following article has been published by the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET), of which NTEU is a member organisation. More...
NTEU backs Fossil Free Melbourne Uni campaign for divestment
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has thrown their support behind Fossil Free Melbourne Uni’s campaign activities this week to pressure the university to divest from its fossil fuel assets. More...
No more excuses for withholding $217m dollars of vital university funding
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) calls on the Australian Government to immediately hand over about $217m to universities.
The Union says that these funds in the form of efficiency dividend cuts from Australian universities in 2015 are now being illegally withheld, following the Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue the Parliament. More...
Fossil Free activists demand universities divest
By Andrew MacDonald. Fossil Free student activists have been involved in wave of activity at campuses around the country this week, demanding universities divest from environmentally unsustainable fossil fuel assets. More...
ACOLA Review of Australia’s Research Training System
By Jen T. Kwok. In 2015, ACOLA (Australian Council of Learned Academies) was asked by the Federal Minister for Education, Christopher Pyne, to undertake a review of Australia’s Research Training System. The review was tied to the federal government’s larger agenda on commercialisation of public research. The report of the review chaired by John McGagh, a former Rio Tinto executive, was released on 14 April 2016. More...
Latest PBO report shows that the budgetary savings from deregulation of university fees will be short lived
By Paul Kniest. Data contained in the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) Supplementary Report into the Higher Education Loans Prgramme released today (20 April 2016) confirms that the government’s attempts to contribute to budget repair by slashing university funding by 20% and allowing universities to charge students whatever they like for a degree will be short lived. More...
NTEU statement in support of saving the Office for Learning and Teaching
By Jeannie Rea. In an environment of extreme levels of casualised teaching and crowded workloads of other academics and professional staff due to chronic underfunding, the opportunities provided by OLT to focus and fund innovation in higher education pedagogy and programs is critical to the ongoing success of our higher education system and the outcomes for our students. More...
Union calls on UniSuper to retract statement opposing banks Royal Commission
By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is calling on the UniSuper superannuation fund CEO, Kevin O’Sullivan, to withdraw his public statement opposing a Royal Commission into the banks. More...
TSA Implementation Crippling University System, ASUU Cries out
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has revealed that the blanket implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy by all federal government-owned institutions is crippling the efforts the institutions to deliver on their set objectives. More...