Seven universities belonging to the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group have committed to supporting students through the COVID-19 crisis by offering food packages, emergency cash and fee waivers. This comes as other universities across Australia implement similar support packages for ...

The federal government JobKeeper wage subsidy announced on Monday to help businesses retain workers during the COVID-19 economic downturn must be extended to the tertiary sector, says the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). The union warns tens of thousands of ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is hopeful benchmarking trends will change after the Fair Work Commission ordered that a UTS academic be reinstated immediately and compensated. The Fair Work Commission this week overturned the University of Technology Sydney’s (UTS) ...

[An earlier version of this story incorrectly mentioned the University of the Sunshine Coast instead of Southern Cross University. Campus Review apologises for the error.] Australia’s university sector is continuing to be severely affected by the effects of COVID-19, with ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan’s $80-million pledge for “performance-based” university funding will have many “unforeseeable”, “perverse” and “unintended” consequences for Australia’s higher education sector, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has warned. NTEU president Alison Barnes said: “The creation of ...

Australia’s tertiary education union had dropped legal action against the University of Wollongong (UOW) after the university’s council approved the controversial Ramsay Centre Western Civilisation Degree in June. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), which commenced legal action in the ...

Ire and disgruntlement have dogged UNSW’s decision to switch from the semester to trimester calendar, ever since it was announced in late 2016. Even as the new structure was rolled out at the beginning of the year, the Cancel Trimesters ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is taking the University of Wollongong and its vice chancellor Professor Paul Wellings to the Supreme Court over the approval process used to create its Ramsay Centre degree. The union lodged a claim in ...

The NTEU has alleged that Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) online study company Studiosity's new peer-to-peer tutoring service for university students is "clearly not in either existing staff’s or students’ best interests". PAL allows top-performing students to tutor others who need help, with the student tutors earning ...

Regional university students need more support – but not at the expense of the base funding of Australia’s research. That’s the call from leading universities, unions and peak bodies following Minister for Education Dan Tehan’s pledge of $135m for regional ...