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   Factual errors in Vice-Chancellor Dewar’s article: the value of the Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University

   Posted 4 September 2012 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

   In accounting for the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University Professor John Dewar’s recent contribution to The Conversation (28August) ...

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   6 comments • Tags: La Trobe University, LTU, HUSS, restructure, The Conversation, John Dewar, VC
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   La Trobe student protests against cuts to Humanities and Social Sciences

   Posted 20 August 2012 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

   Students in Bundoora have planned further protest activities on Wednesday this week, involving an advertised occupation.  NTEU has written to the Bundoora based "La Trobe Students Against HuSS ...

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   • Tags: LTU, HUSS, OCIS, organisational change, restructure, la trobe, Humanities and social sciences, protest, direct action
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   NTEU Media release: Language studies cut, academic staff to be sacked in radical restructure of humanities and social sciences at La Trobe University

   Posted 21 June 2012 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

   June 21 2012

   The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) today expressed alarm at plans for a major restructure of La Trobe University’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, which will ...

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   Media release: Language studies cut, academic staff to be sacked in radical restructure of humanities and social sciences at La Trobe University

   Published: 21 Jun, 2012
   Tags: LTU
   

   The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) today expressed alarm at plans for a major restructure of La Trobe University’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, which will see academic staff sacked and subjects cut back, including Asian languages.

   0 comments • Tags: LTU, funding, restructure, redundancy, job cuts, uncapped places
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   WMS: Desperately seeking research time at La Trobe

   Posted 29 March 2012 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

   Representatives from NTEU La Trobe Branch have been lobbying the University throughout 2011 regarding member concerns about the academic Workload Management System.  These concerns have ...

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   0 comments • Tags: wms, LTU
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   ACTU Secure Jobs Better Future campaign promoted in Wodonga

   Posted 6 December 2011 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

   On 28 October, unionists from both sides of the border came together to hear ACTU President Ged Kearney speak at the annual Labour Day dinner in Wodonga about the ACTU's Secure Jobs Better Future ...

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   0 comments • Tags: LTU, la trobe, ACTU, ged kearney, secure jobs better future, casualisation
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   Editorial: La Trobe staff deserve respect at work

   Posted 5 December 2011 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

   La Trobe University staff are fed up with unfair workloads and unreasonable and, in some cases, retrospective performance expectations.  Lack of genuine consultation about issues has also become ...

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   1 comment • Tags: LTU, la trobe, workloads, consultation
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   Personal qualities should not be used in performance assessment

   Posted 8 November 2011 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

   NTEU La Trobe Branch members are very angry about being assessed on their personal qualities and related 'behaviours' in a new performance development framework.  Staff endorsed the following ...

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   111107 Personal and behavioural characteristics – performance development system

   Published: 08 Nov, 2011
   Tags: LTU, La Trobe University, performance,
   

   2 comments • Tags: LTU, performance
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   Conservative budget approach harming staff and students

   Posted 8 November 2011 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

   NTEU La Trobe Branch has written to the Vice-Chancellor after hundreds of union members across six campuses were briefed last week about the fundamentally sound position of the University's budget. ...

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   111107 Conservative budget approach for 2012 is causing harm to staff and students

   Published: 08 Nov, 2011
   Tags: LTU, La Trobe University, Budget,
   

   

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   LTU NTEU Presentation on Budget

   Published: 08 Nov, 2011
   Tags: LTU, Budget,
   

   This budget presentation was given to a general meeting of the NTEU La Trobe Branch on 3 November 2011. Note the inclusion of an additional slide about the increased use of non-academic casual staff.

   0 comments • Tags: LTU, la trobe, Budget
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   Confidence in ERA lost at La Trobe Uni

   Posted 18 April 2011 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

   La Trobe University staff gathered across four campuses via video link to discuss La Trobe University's research plans and to a pass a motion condemning the adverse consequences upon Australian ...

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   La Trobe on ERA

   Published: 16 Apr, 2011
   Tags: la trobe, ERA, workloads, research
   

   0 comments • Tags: la trobe, ERA, Academic, research, workloads, LTU
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    DVC proposal on a research excellence framework for La Trobe

    Posted 1 April 2011 by Virginia Mansel Lees (Vic Division)

    The DVC(Research) has released a proposal called 'A research excellence framework for La Trobe' which is intended to set up a new Research College.

    Membership of the Research College is intended to ...

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    Research College Discussion Paper - April 2011

    Published: 30 Mar, 2011
    

    6 comments • Tags: La Trobe University, research, workloads, LTU, ERA, managing change, LTURE11, la trobe

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