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NTEU and NUS revive Bluestocking Week (13 -17 August 2012)
From the late 1980s through to the last decade Australian women students held Bluestocking Week*. This was an opportunity to campaign about and celebrate women’s participation in higher ... -
ACTU Release: International Women's Day: insecure work is the hidden driver of the gender pay gap, say unions
Better pay, paid parental leave and equal opportunity laws are important advancements but cannot alone reverse the deep-rooted inequity that women continue to face at work, say unions.
ACTU ...
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Join in International Women's Day (IWD) 8 March 2012
Join in International Women’s Day (IWD) 8 March 2012
NTEU Branches are once again organising and joining in events on and beyond their campuses to celebrate International Women’s ...
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Response to Exposure Draft on people trafficking and slavery offences
The NTEU responded to the Attorney General's Exposure Draft on people trafficking and slavery offences earlier in January, framing our response in terms of the significance of provisions that ...
Submission
(751 KB) - PDFLetter to Attorney General on human trafficking and slavery
Published: 03 Feb, 2012
Tags: international students, human rights,
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Consolidation of Commonwealth Anti-Discrimination Laws
The Commonwealth Government is intending to consolidate federal anti-discrimination laws at the national level (have a look at the Attorney General's website), with the purpose of exploring ...
Submission
(518 KB) - PDFNTEU Letter on Consolidation of Anti-Discrimination Acts
Published: 03 Feb, 2012
Tags: discrimination, indigenous, Women WAC,
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NTEU submission to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia
Attached below is the NTEU's submission to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia. For more information about the ACTU Independent Inquiry take a look at the following link.
Submission
(1 MB) - PDF2012 NTEU submission to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia
Published: 24 Jan, 2012
Tags: casual, casual employment, casual academic,
The ACTU launched a major national campaign to address the spread of insecure work in Australian workplaces in Sept 2011. The following submission is the NTEU's response to the Independent Inquiry being conducted by former deputy PM Brian Howe.
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Register now for NTEU Future of Higher Education Conference
NTEU’s Future of Higher Education Conference, 22-23 February 2012, University of Sydney
Full program with confirmed speakers now posted on website ...
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Media Release: NTEU congratulates students achieving university places
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) congratulates all year 12 graduates and mature age applicants who have gained a first round offer of a university place for 2012.
“We particularly ...
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News about UniSuper's Defined Benefits Fund
NTEU views the news about UniSuper's Defined Benefits Fund with serious concern.
Following further investigation and consideration we will be issuing a statement to all members in the next ...
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Australian Universities Today and Tomorrow, NTEU’s Future of Higher Education Conference
22-23 February 2012 - University of Sydney
Registration is now open for our Future of the Higher Education Sector Conference Australian Universities Today and Tomorrow.
Please note that registration is necessary. Register online by clicking here. Registration is $80 for NTEU members; there is no charge to casual members and full time students, and it is $200 for others. With a limit of 150 participants, this will be a high level, intensive and interactive conference. Places will fill quickly.
We are organising this timely conference because NTEU believes that it is now the appropriate time to both reflect upon what is changing and consider the impacts. It is time to cast the public debate wider and deeper to pose the more profound question as to what we expect of our universities today and tomorrow. The objective of the conference is to better position the NTEU as major actor in the debates about Australian higher and tertiary education.
The conference is organised around a series of six thematic panels over two days. Speakers have been asked to reflect upon their knowledge and experience, to consider the issues of today and projecting into the future and to interrogate the ideological drivers, as well as political pragmatics about what is going to shape the future of our universities. Following some framing remarks from the Chair, each session will have a panel of 3-4 speakers addressing specific aspects of the theme, followed by debate amongst the panellists and Q&A with the audience. The themes are:
- Funding policies
- Regulation and governance
- Students
- The public intellectual
- The 21stcentury university employee
- The international
