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Latest news from the NTEU blogs relating to the campaign.

  1. NTEU media release: Premier Baillieu must reverse crippling TAFE cuts

    Posted 10 May 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

    Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu must reverse the major reduction in public funding for TAFE announced in his recent state budget, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said ahead of a major ...

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  2. NTEU media release: Higher education gets reprieve from major budget cuts but some students to pay more

    Posted 8 May 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is relieved to see that higher education has been spared any major funding cuts in tonight’s federal budget.

    But the major outcome of the federal ...

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  3. NTEU media release: Abandonment of damaging job cuts welcomed – but Union warns Vice Chancellor has yet to make a financial case for any change

    Posted 30 April 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) today welcomed Vice Chancellor Ian Young’s decision to abandon his so-called ‘re-positioning’ strategy for the Australian National ...

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  4. NTEU Media Release: Australian National University staff and students rally today against Vice Chancellor's manufactured financial crisis

    Posted 26 April 2012 by Justin Westgate (Vic Division)

    Australian National University (ANU) staff and students will rally today to increase pressure on Vice Chancellor Ian Young to abandon his destructive and unnecessary proposal to make at least 150 ...

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  5. NTEU Media Release: Australian National University staff and students rally today against Vice Chancellor's manufactured financial crisis

    Posted 26 April 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

    Australian National University (ANU) staff and students will rally today to increase pressure on Vice Chancellor Ian Young to abandon his destructive and unnecessary proposal to make at least 150 ...

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  6. Introducing NTEU TV

    Posted 24 April 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

    You might not have been able to make it to NTEU's Future of Higher Education Conference: Australian Universities Today and Tomorrow,which took place in Sydney in late February, but you can watch the ...

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    NTEU’s Future of Higher Education Conference: Australian Universities Today and Tomorrow

  7. NTEU Media Release: Increase in disadvantaged students welcome but who will teach them?

    Posted 23 April 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) welcomes government figures showing a surge in students from low socio economic backgrounds attending university, but cautions more academic staff are ...

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  8. NTEU Media Release: Skills and education at the core of tackling insecure work divide

    Posted 18 April 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) agrees with former Deputy Prime Minister Brian Howe’s statements at the National Press Club today that insecure employment requires changes to how ...

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  9. NTEU Media Release: Larger surplus cannot be at cost of ANU or its staff

    Posted 26 March 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

    24 March 2012

    from NTEU ACT Division

    The ACT Division of the NTEU today expressed concern about the Australian National University’s proposal to cut university expenditures by $40 million, ...

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  10. Is your university lecture or tutorial overcrowded? Let NTEU know

    Posted 28 February 2012 by Andrew Nette (NTEU National Office)

    Overcrowdings of lectures and tutorials is a common complaint amongst university staff and students in the first few weeks of first semester.  In fact, all staff have stories of trying to do too ...

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