This book stands out from the crowd in a number of ways. For one thing, the book is about the world, working lives, working environment and day to day working experience of its academic authors. More...
31 août 2019
31 août 2019
The End of Endeavour: The short and tumultuous life of ‘Australia’s Fulbright’, the Endeavour program (AUR 61 02)
In April 2019, the Australian Government’s well-regarded Endeavour Leadership Program was quietly scuttled. Since 2003, the Endeavour program (previously known as the Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships program) had supported Australian postgraduate students, researchers and career professionals to study overseas. It also brought talented international scholars and fellows to Australia from all over the world. More...
31 août 2019
The Ramsay Centre and ‘Western Civilisation’: An attempt at historical perspective (AUR 61 02)
Martin Davies’ paper seeks to vindicate the efforts of the Ramsay Centre to fund courses in ‘Western Civilisation’ at selected Australian universities. He begins by lamenting the rejection of vast amounts of philanthropic money for the humanities, and all too quickly dismisses the stated grounds for the Australian National University’s decision to decline a deal with the Ramsay Centre: ‘The issue of academic autonomy has been raised as a reason, but this is, at best, ostensible’, Davies writes. He then goes on to defend the concept of courses in Western civilisation more generally. More...
31 août 2019
Three cheers for the Ramsay Centre (AUR 61 02)
In 2018 Australia’s leading national university, the ANU, decided to break off consultation with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation over a generous bequest to fund a course on Western civilisation. It is not every day that a university decides to turn down a $3 billion bequest to fund a humanities program. More...
31 août 2019
‘Continuous improvement’ in higher education (AUR 61 02)
Worldwide, neoliberalism has become the dominant paradigm for policy making and economic management (Roper, 2018). From the mid-1980s through to the turn of the millennium, neoliberalism became firmly rooted in Aotearoa/New Zealand higher education and since this period its influence has been strengthened by various governments. More...
31 août 2019
Media Release: NTEU University of Queensland Branch Statement on Peaceful Protests on Campus
The UQ Branch of the NTEU condemns yesterday's violent attack on a peaceful pro-democracy gathering of Hong Kong students and their supporters on St Lucia campus. Threats, intimidation or force against students or staff rallying in defence of democracy and human rights, and acts of racism against any international students, are unacceptable at this university. More...
31 août 2019
Semester 2, 2019 issue of Connect out now
The latest issue (vol. 12, no. 2) of Connect, NTEU's magazine for casual and sessional academics in Australian universities, is now available. More...
31 août 2019
Joint Media Release: University staff and students stand in solidarity to demand climate action
The National Union of Students (NUS) and National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) stand together to demand climate action, and call on students and the wider university community to attend the mass university student walkout for climate action across the country on the 9th of August. More...
31 août 2019
Media Release: Performance-based funding for universities is poor policy
A media report that the federal government’s proposals about performance-based funding for universities might include criteria related to student loan repayments is one of the more bizarre suggestions around university funding, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said today. More...
31 août 2019
Media Release: Does performance funding framework provide incentives for better outcomes?
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) warned that the measures for distributing $80 million in performance-based funding announced today by the Minister for Education, Dan Tehan, will have many foreseeable, albeit presumably unintended, perverse consequences. More...
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