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  1. Curtin Branch President Farewelled

    Posted 25 April 2013 by Marty Braithwaite (WA Division)

    Long-time Branch President Jan Sinclair-Jones was farewelled at a recent function to mark her eight years at the helm and seventeen years overall on the NTEU Curtin Branch Executive. Jan has left ...

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  2. Curtin staff and students protest at funding cuts

    Posted 25 April 2013 by Marty Braithwaite (WA Division)

    Curtin University staff and students joined together on 18 April to protest at the funding cuts which will wipe more than $2 billion from university funding

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  3. NTEU ERA Report Briefing Note and Article

    Posted 24 April 2013 by Amy Talbot (Murdoch University)

    NTEU National Policy and Research Unit yesterday released its report on the ERA ranking system "Impact of ERA Research Assessment on University Behaviour and their Staff". A copy of the report ...

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    Fact Sheet
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    NTEU ERA Report Briefing Note

    Published: 24 Apr, 2013

  4. ArtsHub: Schools funding formula fails arts education

    Posted 22 April 2013 by Carmel Shute (NTEU National Office)

    Catch up with ArtsHub article from 19 April on the effects of the $2.3bn uni cuts: "Schools funding formula fails arts education,"

    By Paul Isbel | Friday April 19 ...

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  5. NTEU Dumb Cuts leaflet

    Posted 22 April 2013 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

    The NTEU has produced a leaflet explaining the Federal Government's cuts to higher education funding.

    Please feel free to distribute around your workplace and amongst your friends and families.

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    Bulletin Or Leaflet
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    Uni Cuts, Dumb Cuts (A4 general flyer)

    Published: 18 Apr, 2013
    Tags: dumb cuts,

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  6. University protests held across WA: Hundreds of staff and students unite against 'dumb cuts'

    Posted 19 April 2013 by Jason Tebbutt (WA Division)

    Read an ABC article about the protests here.

    Protests were held at Universities across WA this week to oppose the Federal Government’s recently announced funding cuts to higher education. The ...

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    150 staff and students attended the UWA protest
  7. Union questions Federal Government figures on university cuts

    Posted 18 April 2013 by Carmel Shute (NTEU National Office)

    Research by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has questioned key claims about the $2.3bn university cuts made by Craig Emerson, the Minister for Education, Skills, Science and Research, in an email forwarded to all Monash University staff and students on Wednesday. An almost identical letter was emailed to the

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  8. WA university staff and students protest over $2.3bn cuts to university funding

    Posted 18 April 2013 by Carmel Shute (NTEU National Office)

    ABC News report about today’s protests in Perth over the Federal Government’s $2.3bn cuts to university funding.

    Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and students staged protests this morning at Curtin University, Murdoch University, the University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University.

    NTEU Division President Gabe Gooding told the ABC that the cuts were particularly bad for Western Australia because of the decision many years ago to move the school starting age forward by six months. This will start to be felt in 2015 with half as many school leavers as usual available to enrol at

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  9. UWA Dumb Cuts Protest

    Posted 18 April 2013 by Eileen Glynn (University of Western Australia)

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  10. Photos from Funding Cut Protest 18.4.13

    Posted 18 April 2013 by Beth Cole (Murdoch University)

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