Downsizing, layoffs and cost-cutting policies have led to alarmingly high levels of work-related psychological distress in university staff, a new University of South Australia study has found. Two-thirds, or 67 per cent of respondents, were classed as having 'poor psychosocial ...

Round three applications for the Australian government's National Industry PhD Program encouraging research co-design between universities and industry are now open. The program was built in response to university research delivering knowledge and innovation opportunities to the industries PhD candidates ...

A major national university with a campus in Brisbane has admitted to underpaying 1100 casual academic staff to the tune of $3.6m over seven years. Australian Catholic University released a statement on Wednesday disclosing the discrepancy, which occurred between 2016 ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is taking the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to federal court, alleging that university management used fixed-term contracts to avoid paying staff redundancies. The application, filed last Thursday, seeks a $280,000 relief payment for ...

Universities have underpaid their staff by at least $159m since 2009, with most of the wage loss occurring during the past 10 years, according the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). In a new “wage theft” report released on Tuesday the ...

CampusReview · HEDx Podcast: Zero wasted potential in a war for talent - Episode 97 The ongoing battle of skills shortages and the war for talent has created an environment requiring greater workforce intelligence. It is an environment where workforce ...

Victoria University's (VU) master's in community psychology course is due to be cancelled in 2024, marking the end of community-focused psychology studies in a postgrad-degree format in all Australian universities. The Master of Applied Psychology (Community Psychology) course has clinical ...

Retronyms are newly coined words that remake or replace a pre-existing term in order to make room for innovations. For example, what has always been called “mail” (i.e. what comes in stamped envelopes to a street or postbox address), is ...

The body representing Australian university staff has petitioned to save the job of a Sydney University (USYD) lecturer facing termination of his contract because he has asked to continue to teach remotely due to ill health. Dr Niko Tiliopoulos, senior ...

Australia’s peak engineering body has welcomed federal investment in AUKUS engineering education and called for support to produce a further 60,000 additional graduates by 2033. Engineers Australia chief Romilly Madew AO praised the government’s commitment of $128.5m over four years ...