Advocate August 2004
Vol11 No2
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In this issue of The Advocate:
From the Officers
THE TRADE AGENDA AND INTERNATIONAL
EDUCATION
Carolyn Allport, National President
NTEU TAKES HIGH PROFILE AT EI WORLD
CONGRESS
Grahame McCulloch, General Secretary
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT DIVERSIONS AND
HORIZONS
Ted Murphy, National Assistant Secretary
Membership
FULBRIGHT
SCHOLARS; NURSING ACADEMIC AWARDED; WORKING OFFSHORE; 2004 TAX
GUIDE; MEMBER BENEFITS ONLINE
Update
ENTERPRISE BARGAINING PAY
OFFERS AT A GLANCE; SAVING NURSING AT ORANGE; NSW
DELEGATE’S CONVENTION; HIGHER EDUCATION ELECTION FORUMS;
RECENT HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIONS BY NTEU; ARTS COLLEGE HIT HARD BY
REFORMS; DEAKIN’S EDUCATION FACULTY RESTRUCTURE
Indigenous News
NEW ITEPC
ELECTED; INDIGENOUS HEALTH IN AUSTRALIA; INDIGENOUS HIGHER
EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL FORMED; NATIONAL INDIGENOUS FORUM
2004
Features
RESEARCH STAFF CONFERENCE A MAJOR SUCCESS
NTEU held
its first National Research Staff Conference on the weekend of
June 19-20, attended by over fifty members from across the
country.
RESEARCH MEMBERS HAVE THEIR SAY
Thoughts on
the National Research Staff Conference.
SCIENCE SHOWS ITS ARTISTIC
SIDE
Collaboration and commercialisation in the
humanities.
MEART: THE SEMI-LIVING ARTIST
Science meets
art when UWA’s SymbioticA Research Group gets rat neurons
drawing portraits of gallery visitors.
DROWNING, NOT WAVING 22
Backing
Australia’s Ability II (BAA II), the research and
innovation package in the Budget, has few new ideas and most
funding increases are largely below the original package of 2000.
BAA II FLAGS RESEARCH ASSESSMENT
EXERCISE
BAA II heralds the establishment of a
quality-assessment framework for taxpayer-funded research in
universities and the CSIRO, similar to the UK and NZ models.
VOX POPS: WHAT’S THE VERDICT ON BAA
II?
Five university and research leaders’
opinions of the BAA II package.
NTEU LEADS QUEENSLAND MAY DAY MARCH
DO YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR RIGHTS AS AN
AUTHOR?
Results of NTEU’s investigation into
members’ understanding of copyright.
International
BRITISH ACADEMIC STAFF WIN HISTORIC PAY SCALES
DEAL
AUT’s successful fight for better pay
scales for British university staff.
Columns
BROWSING BLOGS
News from the Net, by Pat Wright
WELCOME TO HIRE EDUCATION
Lowering the
Boom, by Ian Lowe
PAY OFFERS & RESEARCH REVIEWS
Letter
from Aotearoa New Zealand, by Bill Rosenberg, AUS
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Regional Focus, by
Jenny Austin