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NTEU protests call for the restoration of $2.3bn cut from higher education
Over 700 protestors called for the restoration of the latest $2.3bn cuts to university and student funding at a rally this afternoon in Sydney’s Victoria Park. Staff from the University of ...
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UoN Staff, Students & NTEU members take action against Dumb Cuts
It may have rained today but nothing dampened the spirits of approx 150 staff, students and members of the University of Newcastle community who turned out to attend a lunch time action in support of ...
NTEU Branch President Suzanne Ryan & 'The Snakes & Ladders of Dumb Cuts'
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NTEU welcomes Greens and Andrew Wilkie’s opposition to uni cuts legislation
The Greens and independent MP Andrew Wilkie this morning announced their support for the National Tertiary Education Union’s ‘uni cuts- dumb cuts’ campaign and declared their ...
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NTEU Bargaining update 7 - 14th May 2013
NTEU UWS Enterprise Bargaining Update 7 - 14th May 2013
The NTEU Enterprise Bargaining Team met with the CPSU Team and the UWS Management bargaining representatives last Wednesday 8 May, on the ...
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Media Release: Newcastle Uni staff and students take action against cuts
Media Release
UNIVERSITY of Newcastle staff and students will join their colleagues and peers around the nation on Tuesday as part of an Australia-wide day of action opposing the ...
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Open Letter to University Management - Helen Dunstan
We come now to the saddest part: the fact that you, our Vice Chancellor and our Provost, have alienated yourselves from us. Just when unity and cooperation are most needed in the face of ferocious budget cuts, and when our advice on all manner of issues could be of the most value to you, we find that the only manner in which we can realistically engage with you is through adversarial industrial processes. The reality is that the issues go much deeper than those that are at stake in the present round of Enterprise Bargaining, and they require the best efforts of all of us, including some good old-fashioned humility on your parts, if they are to be solved. -
Protest tomorrow to call for the restoration of university cuts
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is urging everyone who cares about higher education to join national protests tomorrow (Tuesday 14 May), to coincide with the Federal Government bringing ...
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Open Letter to Dr Barry Catchlove, Fellow of Sydney University Senate - Gillian Cowlishaw
At the end of 2011, the Vice-Chancellor made a sudden announcement that a large number of academics were to be made redundant, or moved to “teaching-focusssed positions”, due to their failure to produce an arbitrary, retrospectively defined quantity of research publications. The damage done to staff morale was extreme. This attempt to sack or downgrade staff was subsequently shown to be not only short sighted and clumsy, but based on misleading evidence. Many threats of redundancy were withdrawn, while some academics, valorised by students and peers for their teaching and research contributions, felt so stigmatised and demeaned by this process that they took the voluntary redundancy offer, while others who were not on the original hit list took advantage of the payouts to leave the university on advantageous terms, often leaving colleagues in their departments without adequate staffing, as maintaining academic program integrity was not one of the criteria used in the “change plan” (as the Fair Work Australia ruling against the university subsequently showed). These actions demonstrated to staff across the university that senior management has little respect for academic staff. Further, it demonstrated a certain managerial incompetence, which Senate may not be aware of. While many of us object to the increasing managerialism in the running of the university, when it is accompanied by incompetence and inconsistent messages we must surely object strenuously. A final insult was being subsequently told by senior research management staff that “quality” not “quantity” was needed in our research. Those who had been threatened with redundancy on the basis of an appearance of insufficient quantity, lost any remaining shreds of respect for management at that point.
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A Message from Sydney University Staff - Job Security
Staff from the University of Sydney tell management why job security is important not only to them, but to ensuring quality education.
A Message from Sydney University Staff
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Open Letter to University Management - Bronwyn Winter
I have discussed our reasons for taking action with my students, and many of them have expressed their strong support for me and my colleagues. They realise how dedicated staff at this university are and how hard we work to provide them with quality education. They understand that degradation of our working conditions—whether those of academic staff who teach them, research and professional staff who provide intellectual and material resources for their learning, administrative staff who answer their enquiries and process their enrolments and results, or the many other staff who maintain the university’s IT, library and physical infrastructure—can only result in degradation of their experience and learning, and lower the value of their future degrees. A number of our students have attended pickets and will also no doubt be attending next Tuesday’s rally.
Branch Contacts
Branch Office
Room 1043 Bdg 19 Wollongong Campus
University of Wollongong
Phone: 02 4221 3701
Fax: 02 4221 4331
uow@nteu.org.au
http://www.nteu.org.au/uow
Penelope McFarlane
Branch President
penney@uow.edu.au
Anne Maguire
Branch Organiser
amaguire@nteu.org.au
