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Welcome to the 5th edition of edXpress; March 2013.
edXpress is the free subscription based e-bulletin from the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) with news and views on what’s happening on our campuses around the country.
2013 is already ...
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eYarn - Shutdown Period edition
Welcome to the end of the year! The National Indigenous Unit hopes that the assessment/application period is going well for everyone, and that all enjoy a well-earned break during the shutdown ...
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Brave New World? More like an old undemocratic one.
NSW State Secretary, Genevieve Kelly, has penned the following letter (Campus Review, 15 August 2011) in response to Fred Hilmer’s argument that modern university governance needs fewer elected representatives.
“Academics – and particularly historians – must have stifled a laugh when they read Fred Hilmer’s prescription for a “brave new world” of university governance. (Campus Review, June 14). According to the UNSW vice-chancellor, modern university governance needs fewer elected representatives, to create a more streamlined approach.
Reading between the lines, it’s clear Professor Hilmer thinks a university council should be little more than a rubber stamp for the whims of its executive. Elections are a messy business, after all, and to quote Campus Review, “Hilmer believes elected representatives on a council end up representing their constituents
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Extension of Time for Nominations in NTEU CDU Elections 2011
Following the close of nominations in the Charles Darwin University Branch elections on 27 July 2011, there were some positions for which no, or insufficient, nominations were received.
Under the ...
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Once upon a time, universities were all about…
By Gabe Gooding
Many of us remember our university days with fondness, but today’s Uni students are facing a far different experience.
Today they are accumulating debt, which in some cases ...
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Media Release: UWA Staff to Protest Job Cuts in Engineering
Staff from the University of Western Australia will protest against planned cuts to academic jobs in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics on Thursday October 14.
Members of the ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Staff Union Says No to Job Cuts at UWA
The National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) UWA Branch announced today the initiation of campaign against job cuts in the School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences (BBCS). UWA ...
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Media Release: UWA targets Facilities Management Staff in Restructure
UWA Management has announced a large scale restructuring of the University’s Directorate of Facilities Management. The restructure, which was announced on July 12, is expected to result in a ...
UWA Facilities Management Staff at NTEU Meeting July 15 2010
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Media Release: NTEU to Campaign to Stop Job Cuts at UWA
Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) in UWA’s School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences (BBCS), met today to discuss the union’s campaign against the ...
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Murdoch Academic Staff to Go Ahead with Results Ban
Despite legal attempts by Murdoch Management, plans by academic staff members of the National Tertiary Education Union to ban the recording and transmission of student results will go ahead next ...


