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 ...

Uni, unions clash over impact of recent industrial actions. By Dallas Bastian. Strikes in recent months have had mixed outcomes and varied effects on universities. National Tertiary Education Union members have voted in favour of industrial action at the University ...

Educators warn that quality will suffer. By Dallas Bastian. With about half of teaching staff employed as casuals, universities are becoming increasingly insecure places to work, a worker’s union said. National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) national president Jeannie Rea said ...

Although the uncapping of Australian university enrolments has opened up university education to thousands more people, the NTEU says it has also resulted in overcrowded lectures and staff cuts. NTEU national president Jeannie Rea said that while removing caps was ...

The University of Melbourne has come under fire from the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) for allegedly trying to axe indigenous staff targets by cutting clauses from its union agreement. In allegations that the University describe as "baseless", the NTEU ...