With the election of a new government in Australia in May, the begging bowls were being readied by administrators in the university sector. Bloated, ungainly, ruthless and uneven in quality, the country’s universities, for the most part, had inadvertently made their case for more public funding harder. Initially ravaged by poor investment decisions, notably in
While university managements are boasting huge surpluses, they are refusing to make their largely casualised staff permanent and award them pay rises. Binoy Kampmark reports.
The thermometer inside the heated atmosphere of New Law was boiling as USyd’s seasoned hacks returned to Council to wrangle over Labor’s impending Universities…
NTEU USyd Branch President Nick Riemer has announced an upcoming vote to strike and picket on USyd’s Open Day, 27 August, if the University continues to fail to…
The University of Sydney Branch Committee of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) endorsed a motion to raise the union’s wage claim to the Cost Price…