Neoliberal ideology has reduced tertiary education to a commodity. Students have become 鈥渃ustomers鈥 and academics and lecturers are now 鈥渟ervice providers鈥, writes聽Markela Panegyres.
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)
Federal聽parliament聽looks聽set to approve the government's latest attack on higher education, which will hike up fees and cut funding overall, reports Leo Crnogorcevic.
Markela Panegyres reports University of Sydney staff and students have been protesting聽the federal government鈥檚 attacks on higher education,聽management鈥檚 austerity measures and NSW Police's brutal policing policies.
Participants at an online forum agreed that shutting down all protests was not a proportionate response to the pandemic, reports Chris Slee.
NSW Police has again used the pandemic to thwart staff and students' efforts to protest Sydney University's job cuts and the federal government鈥檚 refusal to help universities, reports Rachel Evans.
Helen Masterman-Smith speaks to 91自拍论坛聽about how university workers are learning as they campaign against management's job cuts.
University workers from across the country have voted to plan unprotected industrial action to oppose federal education minister Daniel Tehan鈥檚 cuts to higher education, reports Markela Panegyres.
The organising efforts of precariously employed workers in higher education was the topic of an all-day 鈥淥rganise Your University Right Now鈥 Zoom symposium, reports Jonathan Strauss.
The University of Melbourne once enjoyed a reputation of being the highest-ranked tertiary institution in Australia. Now, it has been exposed as being among the top tertiary educational institutions for wage theft, reports Leo Crnogorcevic.
The National Higher Education Action Network is preparing to fight the federal government's disastrous funding 'reforms' and is calling on colleagues to join an online national assembly on August 24, when parliament resumes.
Staff at the University of Western Australia are set to vote on a proposal to vary their聽entreprise agreement after a union ballot approved the proposal, reports Alex Salmon.
Federal education minister Dan Tehan wants聽students to pay for the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on universities, writes Susan Price.
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