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‘The death of campus life’: first major Australian university dumps face-to-face lectures, leaving staff ‘furious’

Adelaide University touts ‘rich digital learning activities’ that will be ‘self-paced and self-directed’ after student numbers on campus decline

The Guardian - AU

Alarm bells over Australian universities’ financial dependence on international students

Critics across the sector say institutions have become trapped in an unstable business model as they try to make up for loss of government funding

The Guardian - AU

University of Canberra denies giving former head a 'golden handshake'

'UC's response raises more questions than it answers,' union says.

The Canberra Times

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University of Canberra head gets 71 per cent rise ahead of sudden departure

A union wants to know why Paddy Nixon earned three times the PM's wage.

The Canberra Times

Majority of university chiefs in Victoria earn over $1m despite budget woes

Federal government vows crackdown as institutions increased their vice-chancellor’s salaries amid job losses in the sector

The Guardian - AU

Swinburne casual staff underpaid almost $3 million

Casual staff at Swinburne University who were employed between 2017 to 2023 are owed almost $3 million in unpaid wages.

AAP

Uni boards stacked with corporate appointments: report

A study has found more than one-quarter of university boards are comprised of unelected corporate appointments, leading to calls for a governance overhaul.

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University workers lose $159m in stolen wages

More than 97,000 employees in the university sector have been underpaid to the tune of $159 million, new analysis shows.

AAP

Uni staff report 50 per cent spike in sexual harassment

Almost a third of university staff have reported experiencing sexual harassment at work, with the main perpetrators said to be colleagues and managers.

AAP

'No confidence' in universities on campus sex attacks

An independent task force should be established to tackle a woeful culture in sexual assault response at Australian universities, a parliamentary inquiry says.

AAP

NSW vice-chancellors get big pay bumps despite universities plunging into the red

Critics say million-dollar salaries are ‘wildly out of touch’ as annual reports show some academic chiefs got $200,000 raise last year

The Guardian - AU

University staff strike over insecure work as 'anger and discontent' builds on campus

University tutors who say they cannot plan for their futures are among the thousands of university staff to walk off the job as part of a national week of action against insecure work and wage theft.

ABC News

‘Universally hated’: academics speak out on outsourced university courses

Australian academic staff say online courses run by for-profit providers lead to distressing workloads and poor standards

The Guardian - AU

Australian university sector makes record $5.3bn surplus while cutting costs for Covid

Department of Education figures reveal all but three universities reported a surplus, including $1bn for the University of Sydney

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Rampant wage theft and the theft of the common good

Stolen wages is not a new phenomenon in Australia, but the sheer contempt shown for workers by employers is astonishing, advocates say.

AAP

More than $83 million owed to higher education workers

Wage theft is "baked into universities' business models" according to one union, with higher education workers owed more than $83 million over three years.

The Guardian - AU

Business cuts to on-the-job training have made Australia increasingly reliant on migrants, experts say

Academic says companies ‘squealing’ to government about worker skill shortage are contributing to it

Crikey

University staff demand better conditions

University staff will travel to Canberra to demand an end to the higher education sector using an insecure workforce.

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Newcastle Herald

Questions over University of Newcastle's performance in QS World University Rankings

"UON is a fantastic comprehensive university with outstanding staff and students - it just doesn't have a particularly low student to staff ratio."

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