Professional university staff say they facing "crisis" levels of stress and workload in the wake of rolling university restructures and back-and-forth contract negotiations with academics. Last week, thousands of university staff walked off their jobs as part of an ongoing ...
More »‘Like an abusive relationship’: Deakin casual on working conditions
Seasonal academic Dr Jack Kirne said he has been driven well past his breaking point and will be striking for better working conditions during this week's nationwide university strikes. This week, thousands of university staff across Australia will strike against ...
More »Strictly speaking | Algiarism
No reader of Campus Review, or indeed anyone working in higher education, can have missed the anxiety about the fresh potential for plagiarism created by the recently-released software ChatGPT. Of course there’s now a new word for this type of ...
More »UniMelb, USyd, RMIT underpaid staff more than $67m
Australian universities have underpaid their staff by at least $107.8 million since 2020, according to a new report. The ‘NTEU wage theft report’, released Monday, analysed 34 separate incidents of wage theft across 22 universities and found the University of ...
More »‘I feel invisible’: UQ staff plan strike during first week of semester
Hundreds of staff at Queensland University have announced plans to go on strike over job security, fair pay and improved working conditions after the union accused management of “dragging their feet". On Wednesday, staff and students plan to walk off ...
More »New Griffith appointment for diversity and inclusion
Griffith University has appointed Professor Cindy Shannon AM as the university's first Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Indigenous, Diversity and Inclusion. Best known for contributions to Indigenous health, the award-winning academic was made Member of the Order of Australia for “significant service ...
More »Strictly speaking | Munted
Most English words have a history which can be traced back through centuries and even millennia. So those which the dictionary notes as “origin unknown” are a challenge –especially colloquial words like munted, which seems to pop up in New Zealand out ...
More »Griffith academic staff reject university pay offer
Academic staff from Griffith University have voted to bypass one-off $1000 payments included in the university's most recent wage offer, pushing salary negotiations into the new year. The vote followed an 80-page offer sent out by Griffith management in late ...
More »UNE staff and alumni call for transparency
University of New England's new advisory body has called for increased transparency, staff inclusion in managerial processes and for Chancellor James Harris to resign. On Friday, more than 500 UNE staff, alumni, and former employees met to vote in favour ...
More »Deakin Uni wage dispute goes to Fair Work
Deakin uni will face the fair work commission after being accused of alleged "systemic wage theft" by the NTEU. The National Tertiary Education Union claims the enterprise agreement was breached after more than 650 staff across four campuses were paid ...
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