Did everyone catch this article about the real impact of Academic Casualisation in the Age?
When a casual affair turns sour
by Gary Newman
April 17, 2012
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Through 2011 NTEU members in a number of Faculties and Schools campaigned successfully to have a collegially-developed workload model (as required under our Enterprise Agreement) implemented in their ...
NTEU Branch Committee members Viv Farrell and Jim Latham have been leading the NTEU Negotiated Academic Workloads Model (NAWM) negotiating team over the past 6 months. NTEU and Swinburne have now ...
NTEU Branch committee support staff representatives at UTS have identified that high workload is an aspect of employment that UTS support staff are particularly concerned about. The Branch ...
A meeting of Nursing, Midwifery and Health members was held on Tuesday 30 January at the Kuring-gai campus. After considerable discussion, those present voted unanimously to accept a counter-offer ...
The Faculty of Science Technology and Engineering 'Research KPI' scheme places unrealistic research expectations on academics with disturbing implications for their workloads, promotion prospects, ...
Citation data collected for over 40,000 articles in the Information systems and Statistics disciplines demonstrate that the FSTE Research KPI scheme disadvantages academics in relation to workloads, promotion, reputation and academic freedom.
This is a Faculty response to the NTEU discussion paper, "The Research Rating System in FSTE - Another pseudoscientific use of the impact factor (La Trobe)".
We thought it was timely to update all members on the significant campaigns underway at Swinburne. Many new members will be receiving this bulletin for the first time and we welcome you to the NTEU. ...
English, Communications and Performance Studies members are continuing to improve how their workplace operates. Members first met on the Thursday before the start of semester one because the ...
We are very pleased to inform members that the concerns raised by academic staff and NTEU about the Discussion Paper on a Research Excellence Framework for La Trobe have been heard.
We understand ...
Dear members
A new feature in the Enterprise Agreement agreed to in 2010 was the establishment for the first time of a University Workload Policy Review Committee (Clause 36.12). The ...