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Our latest updates on higher education issues across Australia:
- James Cook University admits to further wage theftCurrent estimations show that the wage theft has impacted more than 7,500 staff.
- The University of Melbourne fined $75,000 for violations of Fair Work ActThe University of Melbourne has admitted to multiple breaches of the Fair Work Act and been ordered by a federal judge to pay $75,000 after threatening to punish two casual academics for working outside their contracted hours.
- Marking guidelines reveal attempts to avoid markers exercising “significant academic judgement”Honi Soit has accessed a document, “FASS Guidelines for Applying M03 Marking Paycode”, which advises Arts and Social Sciences tutors on how to apply different marking levels. The document lists the rationale that “The Faculty is seeking to develop an approach to marking classification that is consistent with obligations to staff under the Enterprise Agreement”.
- USyd stops using assessment platform CadmusThe USyd Business School has stopped using the data intensive assessment program Cadmus after a decision made by the eTools committee in Semester 2 last year.
- Australian universities spend hundreds of millions on journal subscriptionsA new report by The Australia Institute reveals that last year, Australian universities and research institutions spent over $322 million on journal subscriptions and a total of $1 billion on academic publishers.
- State and federal inquiries respond to vocational skills shortageA federal parliamentary inquiry into the perceptions and status of vocational education and training (VET) and an NSW interim report on the TAFE system, both released this week, recommend major structural reform to combat a worsening national skills shortage.
- Staff at Monash University to strike tomorrowThe Monash University branch of the NTEU voted for a 24 hour strike beginning midday Wednesday 20th March, provided University management does not submit to Union demands.
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Our latest updates on higher education providers across Australia, sorted by State and University:
New South Wales
- Australian Catholic University (ACU)
- Charles Sturt University (CSU)
- Macquarie University
- Southern Cross University
- University of New England
- University of New South Wales (UNSW)
- University of Newcastle
- University of Sydney
- University of Technology (UTS)
- Western Sydney University
- University of Wollongong
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
- Deakin University
- Federation University of Australia
- Monash University
- RMIT University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- University of Divinity
- University of Melbourne
- Victoria University
Northern Territory
Queensland
- Bond University
- CQ University
- Federation University of Australia
- Griffith University
- James Cook University
- Queensland University of Technology
- University of Queensland
- University of Southern Queensland
- University of the Sunshine Coast
South Australia
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Flinders University
- Torrens University Australia
- University of Adelaide
- University of South Australia
Western Australia
- Curtin University
- Edith Cowan University
- Murdoch University
- University of Notre Dame Australia
- University of Western Australia
Tasmania
List of Universities sourced from Study Australia