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   The International Student Experience: interview with Arfa Noor, National President of the Council of International Students Australia

   Posted 21 May 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

   The Union's Vimeo account, NTEU TV, has a new video. It's our interview with Arfa Noor, National President of the Council of International Students Australia. It's well worth checking out when you ...

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   Why cuts are damaging the ANU's reputation

   Posted 21 May 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

   The following opinion piece by ACT Division Secretary Stephen Darwin originally appeared in the Canberra Times newspaper on May 17.

   Judging by his article in The Canberra Times (''School's future ...

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   Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA 2012 Raffle

   Posted 21 May 2012 by Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office)

   
   

   Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA 2012 Raffle – Get your tickets before the draw on 7 June!

   Get your tickets today for your chance to win an $8,000 travel voucher or a great Gazelle commuter bike ...

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   How you can comment on proposed cuts to the ANU School of Music

   Posted 17 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   Many members of the NTEU, ANU staff and students and the Canberra community have written to Vice-Chancellor Ian Young via his consultation email line, which is open until 25th May 2012. You ...

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   Stop the cuts at the School of Music

   The management of the Australian National University has announced that all staff of the University's School of Music will be made redundant and required to reapply, if they choose, for a position in the School, with a net loss of ten jobs and no guarantee of re-employment. This is associated with curriculum changes that many students, staff and community members have protested against. The Unviersity has announced no intention to reduce the number of students but rather to increase it, raising questions of what combination of casualisation, increased workloads and offshoring of jobs will be used to handle a student load that has increased while staff numbers are decreased.

   ANU's Vice-Chancellor has opened a consultation email line and has invited community members as well as ANU staff and students to use it to comment on this proposal.

   The NTEU encourages you to let the Vice-Chancellor know your views, and to copy your email to the Union at act@nteu.org.au to ensure accountability of the process. (The Vice-Chancellor refused to share publicly or with the NTEU the comments made on his previous consultation exercise about planned job cuts across ANU.)

   If you wish, you can use the email text here. This email comments primarily on the issue of job cuts. You are welcome to add your comments on any other aspect of the proposed School of Music changes.

   Your email will be automatically copied to act@nteu.org.au. If you prefer to comment privately you can simply send an email to the Vice-Chancellor's comment address, somconsult@anu.edu.au.

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   Your Name*

   Your Email Address*

   Email [Vice-Chancellor Ian Young]?

   Subject*

   Dear [appropriate name will be inserted],

   <div>I believe it is completely unacceptable to sack all academic and general staff in the School of Music using the pretense of a new curriculum. To expect those academics - whose deep musical expertise, teaching experience, and scholarship are what constitutes the School of Music - to be forced to apply for 'new' jobs in the institution which derives its status from their work, expertise, and professional reputations is an insult.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>It is equally unacceptable that experienced administrative and support staff are all to be sacked and required to reapply for their positions. How can the work of administering the School have changed so radically as to require this?</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I support the NTEU&nbsp;in disputing that this redundancy announcement is even legal, and I endorse the call for the process to be suspended until staff&nbsp;&nbsp;have been properly and genuinely consulted, as they are required to be when significant workplace change is proposed.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The announced curriculum changes appear to involve outsourcing and further casualisation of teaching. I condemn the replacement of ongoing academics by the employment of staff under poorer conditions and pay, merely as it represents a cost saving to the ANU.&nbsp;</div>

   Yours Sincerely,
   

   [Your details]

   0 comments • Tags: ANU, School of Music, cuts, Email
5. 

   Indigenous business is Union business - Musgrave Park Tent embassy

   Posted 17 May 2012 by Celeste Liddle (Indigenous)

   As many are no doubt aware, on the 16/5/12, 200 Police Officers, on the orders of QLD Premier Campbell Newman, and Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk descended upon Musgrave Park to forcibly remove the ...

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6. 

   NTEU media release: Governments must listen to Insecure Work Inquiry on need for increased investment in skills and education

   Posted 16 May 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

   The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) welcomes the report of the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work, Lives on Hold, released at Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress in Sydney today.

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   0 comments • Tags: media release, higher education, casuals
7. 

   Essential Vision: Are We Dumbing Down Our Universities?

   Posted 15 May 2012 by Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office)

   National Assistant Secretary Matt McGowan appeared on Essential Vision's Three Questions That Count, episode 10, question 2: Are We Dumbing Down Our Universities?

   Matt McGowan explains why opening ...

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8. 

   NTEU Rule Changes

   Posted 14 May 2012 by Ken McAlpine (NTEU National Office)

   Fair Work Australia has approved our changes to the NTEU Rules, which were adopted at the National Council meeting in 2011.

   The most significant changes consolidate the structure of the Northern ...

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   NTEU Rules (as at 4 May 2012)

   Published: 14 May, 2012
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9. 

   NTEU media release: Higher education gets reprieve from major budget cuts but some students to pay more

   Posted 8 May 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

   The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is relieved to see that higher education has been spared any major funding cuts in tonight’s federal budget.

   But the major outcome of the federal ...

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   0 comments • Tags: higher education, Invest in Universities, media release
10. 

    Member discount: Engaging Students through Digital Communications conference

    Posted 2 May 2012 by Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office)

    Engaging Students through Digital Communications

    Integrating Channels & Aligning Marketing Strategies across the Tertiary Student Journey

    15th & 16th August 2012 L’Aqua, Cockle Bay, ...

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    Engaging Students through Digital Communications conference

    Published: 02 May, 2012
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