The ACT Division of the NTEU is launching the NTEU SuperCasuals ACT campaign today, which aims to identify and campaign to address issues around casualisation at ACT universities. This will be a whole of Division campaign - we're trying to reach casually employed staff at all universities with campuses in the ACT. More...
On Wednesday 8 November 2017 the Department of Education and Training released a report entitled Professional accreditation: Mapping the territory. The report (dated February 2017) was written by PhillipsKPA after being commissioned by the Higher Education Standards Panel in 2016. More...
The Fair Work Act is broken and Murdoch University did succeed in terminating the enterprise agreement. But NTEU is back bargaining at Murdoch and, even in the face of virulent opposition from managements, the NTEU is negotiating, taking action and winning through around the country. More...
NTEU has always had a free education policy consistent with Education International (EI) policy that all public education should be tuition fee free. This motion, however, positions the NTEU to advocate for a very real change in government policy. A change that challenges the reliance upon student tuition fees as the major component of university funding; from the contributions of Commonwealth Supported Place holders, to the deregulated fees in most coursework postgraduate programs to the income from the massive international student ‘market’. More...
The Union’s 2017 industrial, professional and policy work has taken place in an extremely tough political environment.
We faced the full impact of the worst aspects of the Fair Work Act with Murdoch University following the path of the mining sector and other aggressive employers in successfully seeking to terminate the 2012 Murdoch EBA while negotiations for a replacement Agreement were taking place. More...
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) for the first time ever will convene a simultaneous national meeting on Tuesday 26 September, to brief all university staff on the possible threat to their livelihoods posed by the Fair Work Commission’s decision to terminate the Murdoch University enterprise agreement. More...
The NTEU today welcomed the announcement by the Fair Work Ombudsman of plans to encourage international students to seek help over industrial issues as a first step in the right direction on addressing the chronic issues of abuse and exploitation of young student workers. More...
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is required to make a Report after it conducts an election for the NTEU. It has done so about a recent election 2017/63. In that Report, the AEC considers that Rule 72.15B is difficult to interpret or apply. The Union’s Rules are here. NTEU will respond to that Report. More...
2017 NTEU discussion paper exploring "the practices of universities and the impact upon the quality of university governance and their obligations under the university Acts, as well as to the broader community". More...
The 2016 National Council motion Accountability of University Councils called for the NTEU to prepare “a report on the varying practices of universities and the impact upon the quality of university governance and their obligations under the university Acts, as well as to the broader community.” This discussion paper addresses this request and calls for, amongst many things, for the NTEU to establish and endorse a Code of Open and Ethical Governance. More...
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