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Response to the Formal Change Proposal
The NTEU's response to the Formal Change
Discussion Paper
(62 KB) - PDFResponse to Formal Change Proposal
Published: 16 Feb, 2012
Tags: Response to Formal Change Proposal, No Job Cuts, USYD
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NTEU USYD Demands Management Comes Clean about the Job Cuts
The NTEU rejects university management’s stated justification for their proposed job cuts. The NTEU met with management on the morning of Monday February 13 as part of formal dispute proceedings, and we were unsatisfied with their responses to our questions.
As a result, the NTEU is demanding that the university management provide the information it claims demonstrates the need for widespread cuts.
On Monday February 13, the NTEU Sydney Branch wrote to the Vice Chancellor seeking information including:- The costings of the University's infrastructure projects;
- The costings of planned job cuts;
- Information and data relating to management's claims regarding their budget forecasting failures, especially since these failures appear to represent a "decrease in annual growth" rather than a dimunition of income;
- Information about the impact of management's proposals on insecure work and casualisation and workloads for existing staff.
We have requested that management respond to our letter by 5 pm on Wednesday February 15. Management’s response will be reported to the next NTEU Members’ Meeting on Thursday.
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NTEU's Initial Response to University Management's Formal Change Proposal
Here is the NTEU USYD Branch's initial response to the University of Sydney's Formal Change Proposal 2012 Budget Strategy, released on Friday, February 3.
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(77 KB) - PDFNTEU's Initial Response to Management's Formal Change Proposal
Published: 07 Feb, 2012
Tags: USYD, No Job Cuts, campaign,
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Motions passed at the members meeting, 01 Feb, 2012.
These are the motions passed by the NTEU members who attended the members meeting on February 1, 2012.
There will be another meeting this Wednesday (February 8th) where we will discuss our response to the University's Formal Change Proposal. The NTEU will also report on the progress of the campaign so far.
Members Meeting:
Where: Carslaw Lecture Theatre, 273.
When: Wednesday, February 08.
Time: 1-2
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(69 KB) - PDFNTEU USyd: Members Meeting - Motions
Published: 06 Feb, 2012
Tags: USYD, motions, meeting, No Job Cuts, campaign,
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Embedding of Indigenous Content
Over the past week, there was a fair bit of news coverage and response with regards to the embedding of Indigenous content within all university curricula as recommended by the Bradley Review in ...
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NTEU Advice on UniSuper Issues
Please find below NTEU's advice on the issues surrounding UniSuper that have been covered in the media this week.
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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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NTEU Submission Draft Change Proposal 9/12/11
Submission
(144 KB) - PDFNTEU Submission Draft Change Proposal 9/12/11
Published: 12 Dec, 2011
Tags: USYD, managing change, submission,
NTEU Submission Draft Change Proposal 9/12/11
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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
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Email Issue
At the moment there seems to be an issue with the mail servers here at Sydney University. This means that we are having problems with our email too. Specifically, we are not receiving ANY email sent to nteu[at]nteu.usyd.edu.au. If you need to get in touch with us, please email either Kate at kbarnsley[at]nteu.org.au or Andrew at arivett[at]nteu.org.au. Alternatively you can call the branch office at 02 9351 2827.
Branch Contacts
Branch Office
Room 214 Transient Bdg Camperdown/DarlingtonCampus
University of Sydney
Phone: 02 9351 2827
Fax: 02 9351 7573
nteu@nteu.usyd.edu.au
http://www.nteu.org.au/sydney
Michael Thomson
Branch President
mthomson@mail.usyd.edu.au
Andrew Rivett
Branch Organiser
arivett@nteu.org.au
Katherine Barnsley
Branch Organiser
kbarnsley@nteu.org.au
