The March meeting’s agenda included the ‘circular resolution policy’, ‘new clubs application appeal’, USU approval items, finance reports, a refresher of USyd’s Strategic Plan, and the executive reports.
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The rally renewed its weekly calls for a permanent ceasefire, to end the occupation of Palestine, and to stop the siege on, and starvation of, Gaza.
The Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) has opened a new food pantry for postgraduate students in the Wentworth building. Based on the successful FoodHub model managed by the USU, the pantry is free for all SUPRA members.
The City of Sydney council passed a motion on April 8th in support of the campaign to get international and part time students concession opal cards as pressure mounts on the NSW government from student organisations, universities, and MPs to legislate the policy in the upcoming budget.
You may have noticed construction fences and “don’t enter” signs littered around campus. Or maybe you’re hearing rumblings of building demolitions? From Cadigal green to Manning house, it is clear the University is implementing several construction projects. What are they? How long will they take? And which parts impact you? Let’s talk about it.
Brennan then spoke noting that “everybody that turned up knew the risk… we put our bodies on the line.” Brennan kicked the hornet’s nest, and specifically called out one faction: “I want to call out Socialist Alternative here, you guys weren’t there.”
The 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.
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”.
The 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.
A 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.
