The number of Australian universities who have allegedly committed wage theft is mounting, with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) saying it accounts for one quarter of all our universities. The NTEU is threatening a “wave of class actions” in ...

A new report has highlighted TAFE’s role in Australia’s economic success and warned that not investing in the sector will destroy our economy’s engines for prosperity, growth and equity. Authored by the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute, the ...

University of Newcastle vice-chancellor Professor Alex Zelinsky advised staff on Tuesday that the university was unable to reach agreement with unions on salaries to help with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic that has rocked the sector. It comes ...

Universities Australia has welcomed a review into academic freedom and freedom of expression announced by education minister Dan Tehan on Friday. Professor Sally Walker will conduct the review with the assistance of universities, focusing on their progress against former Chief ...

As Australian workers continue to suffer job instability during the COVID-19 pandemic, universities including Western Sydney University are offering displaced workers new hope through its short course programs. The university was the first to begin its delivery of 12 intensive ...

Australia’s top-ranked university is repaying more than 1,500 academics in an underpayment scandal involving four faculties. The National Tertiary Education Union’s national president Dr Alison Barnes called the revelations about the University of Melbourne “diabolical” and “systemic”, with other top-tier ...

More than 1200 members of Australia’s academic community have signed an open letter to state and federal education ministers to overturn what they see as a current corporate model of university governance and return it to its traditional roots. Three ...

It seems a virtuous thing to do: your friend or a peer is being cyberbullied and you defend them in a slightly aggressive way. Perhaps you could have defended them more maturely and constructively, but the very act of defending ...

A parliamentary inquiry has heard that no modelling was conducted to see if the plan to increase fees for humanities and arts-related degrees would influence students to take other courses in so-called in-demand fields.   The Education Department’s deputy secretary ...

A University of Queensland partnership between public and not-for-profit agencies has been given the green light to deploy a strategy that hopes to end the scourge of homelessness in Brisbane. However, as two UQ researchers in charge of the project ...