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28 mars 2015

A dirty international deal that could harm education

By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). Governments in New Zealand and Australia are currently negotiating an international agreement that could have a major effect on tertiary education. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) has been under negotiation now in various forms since 2005 and multinational companies are desperate to see governments conclude discussions and sign the agreement in the coming months. More...

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28 mars 2015

Resisting ERA: Why not just say no?

By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). On 22 October 2014, I published an opinion piece in the Higher Education Supplement of The Australian under the title ‘Two Rounds Enough: ERA Does More Harm than Good’. In that article, I argued that ‘after two rounds of Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) I believe the evidence is now in that the ERA is doing more harm than good. It is driving intensified managerialism, creating invidious status hierarchies between and within disciplines, and undermining collegiality. Potentially, it may also threaten academic freedom as managers seek to direct staff more and more where to publish, and even not to publish.’ More...

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28 mars 2015

Which SuperCasual are you?

By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). The Victorian Division has hit the ground running with their 2015 SuperCasuals campaign, which will focus the fight to improve the working conditions and rights of casual employed academics. More...

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28 mars 2015

‘How could Australia not think of investing heavily in science? This is just insanity.’

By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). With all the dust and smoke in Canberra this summer, it was clear that our politicians weren’t paying much attention to research and innovation. It probably wasn’t getting much public attention either. If it had been, the public discontent with the present government would probably have been even stronger. With all the attention on who was sitting in which deck-chair, few noticed that the vessel was listing heavily to starboard and taking water at an alarming rate. More...

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28 mars 2015

The sessional generation’s nostalgia for the Australian university of the past

By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). Such is the case with Through a glass darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University, a collection of essays put together by Margaret Thornton after an Australian Academy of Social Science workshop on the ‘marketisation of the university’ held in 2012 (you can download a free copy here). More...

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28 mars 2015

NTEU art show celebrates CDU’s anniversary

By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). The NTEU’s NT Division celebrated a working partnership with the Territory’s own university – Charles Darwin University (CDU, previously NTU) – in the 2014 anniversary celebrations with a show of photographs and posters from the Union’s archives. More...

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28 mars 2015

Women’s Action Committee 2015

By Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office). Bluestocking Week (10-14 August) will again be the NTEU Branch and Division focus for showcasing the achievements of and challenges for women in higher education and research. More...

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28 mars 2015

NTEU warns against Pyne’s deceptive proposal to split the higher education bill

By Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office). The National Tertiary Education Union emphasises that Minister Pyne is not abandoning his 20% cut to university funding. His proposal to split it off from the deregulation bill is merely a six month deferral. More...

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28 mars 2015

Queensland election a stunning rejection of austerity

By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). Queensland’s snap election was called at a time when many NTEU members were either on leave or extremely busy with enrolments. The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) ran a very focused campaign around asset sales and cuts to essential services. The message: number every square, put the Liberal National Party (LNP) last. More...

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28 mars 2015

Senators set to vote down Pyne’s destructive higher education bill

By Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office). The National Tertiary Education Union is confident that the majority of crossbench senators will vote with Labor and the Greens against the Abbott Government’s higher education bill scheduled in the Senate this coming week. More...

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