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Industrial Commission Criticises UWS Over Osteopathy and Podiatry Decision
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The NTEU has called for the University of Western Sydney to reverse its decision to
cease the intake into its Osteopathy and Podiatry programmes after the Australian Industrial
Relations Commission today criticised UWS for failing to abide by its by legal obligations. |
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Total Commonwealth Control Is Not The Answer To The Problems Facing Our
Universities
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NTEU can see little evidence to support the need for a radical overhaul of Commonwealth,
State and Territory powers over our university system. |
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Demonstrating UWS Staff Call For University Executive To Be Removed
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Around 100 academics and general staff from the University of Western Sydney attended a
demonstration outside today’s meeting of the University’s Board of Trustees to
call for the organisation’s senior executive to be removed. |
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Monash Members Lead The Way By Voting For New Improved Enterprise Agreement
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NTEU members at Monash University have strongly endorsed management’s latest
offer for a new Enterprise Agreement |
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No Christmas cheer at UWS as University Executive moves to steamroll staff and
students
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Management ‘proposals’ at the University of Western Sydney have left
thousands of staff and students in doubt over the future of courses and Schools, the Union
representing general and academic staff of the University said today. |
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WILL INDEXATION REVIEW TELL THE GOVERNMENT ONLY WHAT IT WANTS TO HEAR?
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The Government’s decision not to hold a public review of the indexation
arrangements for university funding means it will take place without the vital input of the people
who run and work in our universities, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on
Monday. |
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Job Vacancy - Branch Organiser (RMIT)
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RMIT Branch Organiser is taking 12 months leave, and the Branch is seeking a replacement
for the duration of her leave. The position is predominantly that of a Branch Organiser, plus some
administration duties. |
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PROTOCOL REVIEW MUST NOT DOWNGRADE UNIVERSITY APPROVAL PROCESSES
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Maintaining the quality of our university system, not commercial or political
convenience, must be the foremost imperative driving any review into the national protocols
governing the definition and accreditation of universities in Australia, the National Tertiary
Education Union (NTEU) said on Friday. |
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FIRST UNIVERSITY SIGNS UP TO NTEU’S NEW BARGAINING STRATEGY
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Wollongong University appears set to become the first university to sign up to the
National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) strategy of ensuring all agreements negotiated
in the current higher education enterprise bargaining round are binding until 2008. |
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Juggling work/study and family at UNSW more than staff & students can bear
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Staff and students to rally for child care and a family friendly campus |
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NTEU Intervenes to Stop Decision on University of Melbourne Regional Campus
Closures
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NTEU has demanded that the University of Melbourne delay any decision on its proposal to
close several regional campuses until it has adequately consulted with staff and other
stakeholders |
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Student Unions – Thousands Face Job Threat
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New NTEU merchandise
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POLITICAL PARTIES GIVE VOTERS A CLEAR CHOICE ON THE FUTURE OF OUR UNIVERSITIES
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On October 9 it is vital that voters don’t give the Coalition a chance to
further price them and their families out of a university degree and further decrease public funding
to our universities, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on Thursday. |
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LABOR OFFERS UNIVERSITIES INCREASED FUNDING WITHOUT INCREASED STUDENT FEES
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The Aim Higher package released by Labor today offers universities access to a secure
stream of improved public funding without the need to increase fees for students and their
families. |
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NTEU ENDORSES CALL TO MAKE ‘YOURVOICE’ HEARD
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) on Tuesday welcomed the entry of a new
player into the 2004 Federal Election, Richard Frankland, an independent Indigenous candidate
running for the Victorian Senate. |
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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY MUST GUARANTEE A FUTURE FOR ITS REGIONAL CAMPUSES
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Melbourne University management must immediately guarantee the future of its six
regional and outer suburban campuses, following media reports today that the University is
considering axing some of them, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on Friday. |
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NTEU ENDORSES COMMITMENT OF AUSTRALIAN GREENS TO PUBLIC EDUCATION
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) endorses the strong emphasis placed by the
Australian Greens on the need for increased public investment in our education system, including
their $4.5 billion plan for TAFE and Universities that was launched as part of their education
policy on Friday. |
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NTEU COUNCIL 2004 AND THE FEDERAL ELECTION – INFORMATION FOR THE MEDIA
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The progress of the National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) campaign in the
lead-up to the October 9 Federal election will be one of the key issues discussed at the
Union’s 11th annual National Council, which opens in Melbourne today. |
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LABOR PROMISES TO REVITALISE AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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Labor’s research and innovation policy offers an all of community plan to
revitalise Australia’s flagging research and development effort, including lifting our
national investment in research to the OECD average and initiatives to support early and mid-term
researchers, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on Tuesday. |
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Give funding for new technical colleges to the TAFE sector
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The Howard Government’s announcement that it will establish 24 new technical
colleges is a direct attack on the salaries and employment conditions of staff in the existing
public TAFE sector and an enormous waste of taxpayers’ money |
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DEMOCRATS POLICY: AN INVESTMENT IN OUR UNIS IS AN INVESTMENT IN OUR FUTURE
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) today welcomed the Australian
Democrats’ commitment to provide adequate funding to Australia’s public
universities, rather than further transferring the costs to students and their families. |
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LABOR’S FELLOWSHIPS WILL STEM BRAIN DRAIN BUT FULL RESEARCH POLICY NEEDED
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Labor’s announcement that it will provide 200 new fellowships for mid-career
researchers will help stem the brain drain of researchers from Australia’s universities,
but more details concerning Labor’s overall research policy are urgently needed, the
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on Friday. |
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Staff strongly support strike action at VUT & RMIT
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It is students who will suffer most if VUT and RMIT do not do something positive about
properly regulating staff workloads as a result of yesterday’s strike action by staff, NTEU
Victorian Division Secretary Matthew McGowan said. |
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ACT questions the future of higher education
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Staff and students of the ACT’s four publicly funded universities, along with
the local Canberra community, will have the chance to hear from local candidates in the Federal
Election about their party’s higher education policies. |
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Government announcement provides no long term solution to UWS’s funding
problems
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The announcement by Prime Minister Howard of additional funding to UWS is a piece of
election pork barrelling that will provide no real long-term solution to the financial problems
facing the institution |
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‘Return to Jurassic Park’ CSU Indigenous Education Review
Condemned
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Last week the Charles Sturt University announced its plans for a major restructure of
its Indigenous Education services. The review, compiled by three external Indigenous academics, was
released earlier this month and was immediately condemned by Indigenous staff and community members
as seriously lacking full and proper consultation. |
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CHALLENGES FOR REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES THE FOCUS OF ELECTION FORUM AT SCU LISMORE
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The challenges facing higher education on the northern NSW coast will be the focus of a
forum for local candidates contesting the October 9 election being organised by the National
Tertiary Education Union at Southern Cross University’s Lismore campus on Tuesday. |
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LABOR RAISES THE STAKES ON INDIGENOUS HIGHER EDUCATION
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The Indigenous policy launched by Labor this week significantly raises the stakes on the
Coalition in terms of improving outcomes for Indigenous people in a number of areas, including their
participation in our higher education system, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on
Friday. |
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VICTORIAN NTEU MEMBERS CAMPAIGN AROUND EB
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NTEU members at several Victorian universities are taking action over the coming weeks
to put pressure on employers to finalise new Enterprise Agreements, NTEU Victorian Division
Secretary Matthew McGowan said today. |
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Moreton Electorate Forum: The Big Issues, Health and Education
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Monday 4th October, 7pm-9pm, at McGregor State Primary School Hall, McCullough St,
Sunnybank. Chaired by Sharan Burrow (ACTU President)
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WHAT FUTURE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA?
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The staff and students of the University of Adelaide will have the chance to ask their
Federal parliamentary candidates about the future of higher education in South Australia, at a forum
being organised by the University of Adelaide Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)
tomorrow. |
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‘BRAIN DRAIN’ REPORT HIGHLIGHTS NEED TO NURTURE NEXT GENERATION OF
RESEARCHERS
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) on Wednesday welcomed the launch of a
report into the factors behind the brain drain of skilled scientists, technologists and engineers
from Australia, and its central observation that much more needs to be done to support our research
community and nurture the next generation of researchers. |
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INCREASING COSTS, DECLINING FUNDING FOCUS OF NTEU CAMPAIGN IN HERBERT
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The National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) Federal Election campaign in the
Federal House of Representatives seat Herbert will focus on the increasing cost of getting higher
education and the declining public funding to our public universities under the Howard
Government. |
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NTEU ELECTION CAMPAIGN TARGETS SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is targeting the marginal seats of Adelaide
and Hindmarsh in the lead-up to the October 9 election, highlighting the increasing cost of a
university degree and the declining public funding of our universities under the Howard
Government. |
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NTEU AND MUGSU LAUNCH JOINT CAMPAIGN AROUND ELECTION 2004
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NTEU and the Monash University Gippsland Student Union (MUGSU) have launched a joint
campaign to highlight higher education issues facing people in the marginal seat of Gippsland, in
the lead-up to the 9 October federal election. |
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STAFF AND STUDENTS CALL ON SYDNEY UNI COUNCIL TO SAVE NURSING AND ORANGE
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Staff, students and nurses will rally later today against the Vice Chancellor’s
plan to slash the Faculty of Nursing and Orange campus from Sydney University. |
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TV SPOTS KICK OFF NTEU CAMPAIGN AROUND ELECTION 2004
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) kicks off its campaign in the lead-up to
the October 9 election today with television advertising in selected marginal seats highlighting the
increasing cost of a university degree under the Howard Government. |
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THE GOVERNMENT’S TWO BIG LIES ON HIGHER EDUCATION
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A report in this morning’s Australian has shown that Prime Minister
Howard’s claim that there would never be $100,000 degrees under his Government, is a clear
misrepresentation of the truth, with over 50% of full fee degrees costing more than $100,000 from
2005. |
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SOUTH AUSTRALIANS TO BE PRICED OUT OF A UNIVERSITY DEGREE
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Reports today that the University of Adelaide is offering South Australia’s
first domestic full fee paying degree over $100,000 is further proof that the Government’s
higher education policies are pricing people out of universities. |
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ELECTION 2004: WHICH PARTY DO YOU TRUST WITH OUR PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES?
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) believes voters need to consider which
party they trust with our universities when they go to the polls on October 9. |
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Global Academic Boycott called for UK Nottingham University
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Nottingham University (UK) is facing a global academic boycott unless serious
negotiations over a new pay and grading settlement begin before 20 September. |
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NTEU CALLS FOR INQUIRY INTO CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY’S FINANCES
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The Northern Territory Division of the National Tertiary Education Union on Wednesday
called for the Territory’s Auditor General to hold an independent inquiry into the finances
at Charles Darwin University following conflicting accounts of the institution’s fiscal
status. |
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NTEU WELCOMES PLAN TO REVISE POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION
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The National Tertiary Education Union welcomes the announcement by the shadow Minister
for Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, that the ALP will abolish the $540 million per year
Research Training Scheme (RTS), which provides funding to universities to educate higher degree
research students. |
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NTEU welcomes the establishment of the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory
Council.
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The NTEU on Friday welcomed the Federal Government’s official establishment of
an Indigenous Council to advise the Federal Government on higher education. |
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GOVERNMENT MUST ACT ON SENATE CALL TO KEEP NURSING AT SYDNEY
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The Government must act on a Senate motion urging it to prevent the University of Sydney
from moving ahead with plans to close its Faculties of Nursing and Rural Management,” the
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on Thursday. |
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NOTRE DAME DECISION IS POOR POLICY THAT WILL NOT EASE NURSE SHORTAGE
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The Federal Government’s decision to provide public funding and nursing and
medical places to support the establishment of a Sydney Campus of West Australia’s
University of Notre Dame, is an example of poor policy that will do little to ease the shortage of
nurses currently facing the country, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on Monday. |
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GOVERNMENT MUST ACT ON SENATE CALL TO KEEP NURSING AT SYDNEY
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The Government must act on a Senate motion urging it to prevent the University of Sydney
from moving ahead with plans to close its Faculties of Nursing and Rural Management,” the
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on Thursday. |
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STAFF AND STUDENTS CALL ON SYDNEY UNI COUNCIL TO SAVE NURSING AND RURAL MANAGEMENT
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Staff and students will rally later today to urge Sydney University’s governing
body to reject management plans to shed the Faculties of Nursing and Rural Management. |
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Sydney Federal Election Candidates to debate the Future of Public Education and Public
Broadcasting
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ACTU President Sharan Burrow will chair a forum at UTS Broadway on Wednesday 28 July
where candidates vying for the seat of Sydney will declare their hand on their vision for Public
Education and Public Broadcasting in the lead up to the Federal election. |
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UTS academics achieve landmark enterprise bargaining outcomes
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The Australian Industrial Relations Commission today certified the new Enterprise
Agreement that will cover employment conditions for approximately 1,700 academic staff at the
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). |
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UWS staff welcome decision to reject student fee hike
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NTEU has praised the University of Western Sydney’s decision yesterday, to
rule out any increase in student HECS fees in 2005. |
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RMIT Training Non-Union Agreement Defeated
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NTEU Members have defeated a management attempt to impose a second-rate non-union ballot
on staff at RMIT Training, a highly profitable subsidiary of RMIT. |
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COST OF UNIVERSITY DEGREE DOUBLES UNDER HOWARD GOVERNMENT
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The latest student data released by DEST, revealing that fewer school leavers are
choosing to enter university, is proof that the increasing cost of a degree is deterring many
potential students from entering higher education, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said
on Monday. |
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Uni staff earn 5 star rating but still bottom of the heap on pay
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While welcoming the announcement that University of Wollongong staff have gained the
recognition of a 5 star rating in the Good Universities Guide, the NTEU has criticised University
management for their hypocrisy in praising staff for their achievement on one hand, while
maintaining their position in current pay talks that would leave staff with a deal considerably
inferior to those reached or on offer at most other Universities in the country. |
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$210,000 FOR A DEGREE – IS THE GOVERNMENT PRICING PEOPLE OUT OF
UNIVERSITY?
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The report in today’s Australian newspaper that Melbourne University is
considering charging domestic students up to $210,000 for a medical degree, $196,000 for a
veterinary science degree and $96,000 for a law degree from 2005, is further proof that the
Government’s higher education policies are pricing people out of universities.
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NTEU Elections Recall of Nominations
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Nominations are re called for various Divisional, Branch, Combined Branch Electorate and
Sub-Branch positions. |
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APHEDA HIV/AIDS appeal for PNG
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APHEDA's end of financial year HIV/AIDS appeal for Papua New Guinea |
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Parramatta Candidates Called to Account on Higher Education Policy
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University staff and students will demand answers from candidates vying for the seat of
Parramatta at a Public Forum tonight. |
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ABSTUDY RESTRUCTURE PRE-EMPTS GOVERNMENT REVIEW INTO SCHEME
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A Federal Government review into changes to ABSTUDY has been pre-empted by plans to
reduce the number of administration centres responsible for the assessing of ABSTUDY claims from 14
to 4 nationally. |
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CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY LOSES OUT ON GOVERNMENT FUNDING
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Charles Darwin University (CDU) will not receive the maximum financial loading for
regional campuses introduced as part of the Government’s reform package for higher
education, despite its unique status as the Territory’s only university, questions in the
Federal Parliament have revealed. |
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No Song & Dance for Reconciliation Week
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National Reconciliation Week, 27 May - 3 June |
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SCU Staff to Stop Work and Protest Outside University Council
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General and Academic Staff at Southern Cross University will stop work for two hours
next Friday, 21 May and hold a protest outside the meeting of the University Council. |
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BUDGET SQUANDERS OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD R&D
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) believes tonight’s Federal Budget
will do little to help Australia’s research community face current financial and
intergenerational pressures. |
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Swinburne Looks Set to be 1st to Conclude New Enterprise Agreement in Victoria
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The NTEU and Swinburne University expect to conclude negotiations on a Heads of
Agreement on 12 May, laying the foundations for a new Enterprise Agreement, NTEU Victorian Division
Secretary Matthew McGowan said yesterday. |
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Union forces pay rise at Southern Cross
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GOVERNMENT’S RESEARCH PACKAGE LOCKS IN FUNDING DECLINE
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The Backing Australia’s Ability II package announced by Prime Minister John
Howard on Thursday fails to maintain Government spending as a percentage of GDP in the economically
vital area of research and development. |
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SCU Branch makes last ditch offer to University management
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Chance to avoid strike and protest action at Southern Cross University. |
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VIC Members Decide on Deadlines for Uni's to Make Realistic Offers on New
Enterprise Agreements
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Academic and general staff at the University of Melbourne and Victoria University of
Technology (VUT) have given university managements until 21 May and 14 May respectively to make
realistic offers on new Enterprise Agreements, or face further escalating industrial action |
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Parents and students pay too much for tax cuts
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Parents, teachers and universities will pay dearly for tax cuts, reveals Services First
– a new alliance of doctors, teachers and community organisations. At a media conference in
the marginal federal electorate of Parramatta, parents and teachers called on political parties to
allocate Budget funds to public education rather than tax cuts. |
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University and CSIRO Unions Stand Together
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Unions representing research staff in the CSIRO and public universities believe the
Government’s upcoming science and innovation package must produce results on number of key
threshold issues, including injecting sufficient funding to arrest Australia’s decline in
R&D spending relative to our OECD competitors. |
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Victorian Universities Stop Work Over Lack Of Progress On New Enterprise
Agreements
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Academic and general staff at three Victorian Universities are stopping work this week
to protest at the lack of progress on finalising new Enterprise Agreements |
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Nelson Double Counts Increase in Student Places
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The Education Minister, Dr Brendan Nelson, refers to “double counting“
in his analysis of the Australian Vice Chancellors Committee’s (AVCC) report on
applications for undergraduate places at Australian universities, released on Friday. He fails to
allow for the double counting in the number of new university places under his Backing
Australia’s Future package. |
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New Report Urges Boost to Australia’s Innovation Effort
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) endorses the thrust of a major report
released today that advocates urgent action to boost Australia’s innovation effort. The
report, Innovating Australia, by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) examines
Australia’s recent track record in regard to Research & Development (R&D) and
Innovation. |
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ITEPC Election Results
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UNESCO's 'Education for All Week' and 'World Book and Copyright
Day'
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19 - 25 April is UNESCO's Education for All (EFA) Week 2004; April 23 is
UNESCO's World Book and Copyright Day. |
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Industrial Action Looming at VIC Universities Over Lack of Progress on New Enterprise
Agreements
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NTEU delegates are frustrated about the lack of progress on finalising new Enterprise
Agreements at Victorian universities and will recommend a rolling industrial campaign at targeted
campuses commencing in May 2004 to provide a ‘circuit breaker’ to the
impasse. |
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ACTU national competition for students
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"Worksite for Schools" is currently running a national competition for school,
TAFE and RTO students, entitled "Investigating Wages and Working Conditions". |
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Fed Up UNE Staff and Students Draw the Line
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Staff and students at UNE say enough is enough and are taking action today. |
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University Staff Back Student National Day of Action
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) strongly backs today’s student
National Day of Action in protest against the move by nearly a quarter of Australia’s
public universities to increase their HECS charges, and the prospect that many more institutions
will follow. |
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Government Must Act on Research Reviews’ Call for Additional Investment in
R+D
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The Federal Government must act on the recommendations of its own reviews into research
and significantly increase its investment in R&D and innovation, including research in
universities, in the upcoming Federal Budget, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on
Thursday. |
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National Research Staff Conference
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National Office is organising a major conference for research staff members to be held
on the 19th and 20th June 2004. |
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Indigenous Forum 2004 and ITEPC Elections
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Copyright, Publishing and Authors' Rights Survey [Deadline Extended]
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All members with an involvement or interest in intellectual property, copyright,
publishing and authors’ rights are encouraged to complete the survey. |
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Retired Academics Database Helping Universities in the Developing World
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RAD is a database of retired academics and administrators from around the world that is
helping universities in the developing world tackle their staff recruitment difficulties. |
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NTEU Summary of US-Australia Free Trade Agreement
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Ted Murphy, NTEU National Assistant Secretary, summarises the key provisions of the
US-Australia Free Trade Agreement. |
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ALP Conference Gives Voters A Clear Choice On Higher Education
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This week’s Australian Labor Party conference gives voters a real choice
between the higher education policies of the major parties in the lead up to the next election, the
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said on Saturday. |
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Second Round University Offers Confirm Record Unmet Demand
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Today the first set of second round university offers have been released in Queensland,
showing that approximately 9,000 eligible applicants will miss out on government-supported place at
Queensland University in 2004. This is an indicator that record numbers of Australians will miss out
on access to government supported university places. |
