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What: The National Tertiary Education Union will launch its latest report on university wage theft and call for an urgent parliamentary inquiry
Who: NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes and ACTU Secretary Sally McManus
When: Wednesday June 26, 9.30am
Where: Mural Hall, Parliament House, Canberra
Matt Coughlan 0400 561 480
The National Tertiary Education Union has called for a federal parliamentary inquiry into university governance after the University of Canberra announced 200 job losses. UC's Interim Vice Chancellor Stephen Parker announced a plan to scrap 200 roles on Monday. This announcement follows the very public governance crisis at UC, which has attracted significant public interest in recent times. Former Vice Chancellor, Paddy Nixon resigned suddenly after revelations he received a whopping $1.8 million remuneration in 2023. There have also been course cuts, unit cuts, a $10 million budget blowout (following an $9.5 million increase in spending on consultants), the replacement…
A select group of “model schools” will set the standard for new teaching practices in Victoria as educators work to meet a government deadline to make the switch to explicit instruction methods. Victorian government schools have been given three years to move to structured phonics and explicit instruction from prep to grade 2 after State Education Minister Ben Carroll announced a system-wide shift in June. La Trobe University’s new Momentum Schools research project will investigate how best to support this change, linking schools that have successfully adopted explicit instruction with others just starting the transition. More than 80 schools have…
A new report by the Australia Institute finds less than one per cent of federal road funding is going toward infrastructure for active transport, but that there is strong public support for a range of active transport reforms that would help ease traffic congestion and improve public health. The report, ‘Proactive investment: Policies to increase rates of active transportation,’ shows the Commonwealth Government’s four year, $100m National Active Transport Fund has only enough money to build 25-50 km of new, separated bike paths. In contrast, France plans to invest EUR 2 billion (around AUD 3.2 billion) in cycling infrastructure between…
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