Starting in July 2025, university and TAFE students who complete mandatory placements studying courses like teaching, nursing, social work, and midwifery will receive payments of over $300 a week during the duration of their placements.
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Egregiously, there were no Indigenous students present at the forum, meaning that Macourt had to undertake significant labour in explaining Indigenous Australian issues, particularly to international students who did not grow up with basic education on these discourses.
The Federal government has announced major changes to HECS indexation as part of the budget on May 14th. Debt will now be indexed to wage growth as opposed to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and that reform will be applied retroactively to last year.
Besides a few attempts by Zionist supporters to verbally intimidate, there was no escalation. The encampment chanted non-stop until Zionist protestors voluntarily left university grounds soon after.
Honi enters the (soap)boxing ring and emerges relatively unscathed
Encampment rally takes place amidst the rain, speak-out takes place outside F23, and Honi speaks to Nasser Mashni.
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has demanded “major changes to university governance” after the Swinburne University of Technology conceded to $2.85 million in wage theft between 2017 and December 2023, impacting around 1,800 staff.
With USyd approving just 117 travel concession applications under Transport NSW’s exemptions for disabled part-time students between 2019 – 2023, concerns are being raised over NSW universities’ opaque guidance on accessing the concessions.
On Friday 19 April, the Disabilities Community Room was officially opened by the Disabilities Collective (DisCo) in an event with representatives from the University of Sydney Union (USU), Sydney University Postgraduate Students’ Association (SUPRA), and DisCo members.
With the Gaza solidarity encampment approaching its first week on the Quad lawns, student activists continue to demand for the severance of the University’s ties to Israeli universities and weapon manufacturers.