Tag Archives: Australia

Austrailia: Tenth school for overseas students collapses

Sydney Morning Herald: Tenth school for overseas students collapses

THE reputation of Australia’s $16 billion overseas education industry has been dealt another blow by the sudden collapse of the Global Campus Management Group, which ran four colleges in Sydney and Melbourne with about 3000 students.

The collapse is particularly embarrassing for the Federal Government, which has been working hard to rebuild the industry’s battered image, as hundreds of the the Sydney-based students were placed in the school by the Department of Immigration after their previous school, Global College, went broke last year.

FIJI-AUSTRALIA: Academic deported for criticisms

World University News: FIJI-AUSTRALIA: Academic deported for criticisms

An Australian National University academic Professor Brij Lal was arrested and then deported from Fiji last Thursday after criticising the military regime during media interviews. Lal teaches at the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific and, although born in Fiji, he has Australian citizenship, is an expert on Fiji politics and helped draft the country’s constitution in 1997.

He was arrested at his home in Fiji’s capital Suva, held for an hour and interrogated then told to leave the country within 24 hours “or else”. Lal had been living in Suva since August and was writing a book on the island nation’s poor.

Australia facing academic exodus: study

ABC News: Australia facing academic exodus: study
Australia could be starved of academics, with claims our boffins are overworked and underpaid.

A study by Melbourne University reveals a quarter of the country’s senior academics will retire over the next five years, and 5,000 academics over the next decade.

Anti-Indian racism rampant in Australian unis

Sydney Morning Herald: India is losing interest in our universities, say agents

AUSTRALIA’S elite universities are set to pay a high price for the Indian student crisis as middle-class parents, concerned for their children’s safety, opt for degree courses in Britain, New Zealand, the United States and Canada.

Two months of media reports about attacks on young Indians and allegations of rampant racism in Australian suburbs are having a serious impact, Indian education agents say.

Australia: Union in talks to call off Queensland teacher strike

ABC News: Union in talks to call off teacher strike

The IRC ordered the Queensland Teachers Union and the State Government into arbitration to resolve their long-running wage dispute

The IRC ordered the Queensland Teachers Union and the State Government into arbitration to resolve their long-running wage dispute. (ABC News)

The Queensland Teachers’ Union has begun talks with members about calling off plans for a 48-hour strike in central Queensland schools next week.

The Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) this afternoon ordered the union and the State Government into arbitration to resolve their long-running wage dispute.

Australia: Uni strike would hit exam results

Sydney Morning Herald: Uni strike would hit exam results

UNIVERSITY lecturers are preparing to take statewide industrial action, including marking bans that could disrupt students’ exam results.

AUSTRALIA: Top university slashes 220 jobs

World University News: AUSTRALIA: Top university slashes 220 jobs

The global financial crisis has struck one of Australia’s leading universities with Melbourne University’s shock announcement last week that 220 full-time equivalent academic and administrative staff positions would be cut following a A$30 million (US$25 million) decline in investment returns.

Australia: IRC hearings continue in Qld teachers dispute

ABC News: IRC hearings continue in Qld teachers dispute

There has been a hiccup at the start of today’s Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) hearing in Brisbane into the Queensland teachers pay dispute.

Today’s hearing could hold the key to resolving the bitter dispute between the State Government and the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU).

Australia: Queensland teachers still prepared to strike

Green Left Online: Qld teachers still prepared to strike

The Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) is assessing a new pay offer put forward on July 24 in the Industrial Relations Commission by the Anna Bligh state Labor government.

Queensland: Teachers may call more strikes for better pay

Courier-Mail: Teachers may call more strikes for better pay

QUEENSLAND teachers are expected to reject a government ultimatum and call for further strikes in their fight for better pay, the union has warned.

More than 250 Queensland Teachers Union delegates meet today in Brisbane for the three-day state conference and will vote on whether to continue industrial action.

Australia: Queensland Teachers Union vows more industrial action

Courier Mail: Queensland Teachers Union vows more industrial action

THE State Government has been warned it risks six months of industrial strife if it tries to back out of promised pay rises for hundreds of thousands of staff.

Before the state election in March, the Government signed a memorandum of understanding with several unions representing public servants and other state employees.

Australia: Queensland teachers poised to strike for better pay

The Age: Teachers poised to strike for better pay

Queensland teachers are voting on whether to take strike action, possibly within two weeks, as they pursue a new wage deal with the state government.

Australia: Qld teachers vote to stage 24-hour strike

ABC News: Qld teachers vote to stage 24-hour strike

Queensland’s state school teachers will go on strike for 24 hours over its pay dispute with the State Government.

More than 37,000 teachers will strike next Tuesday, May 19.

The State Government has been in talks with the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) over a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which has expired.

Australia: Teachers, nurses demand pay rise as others fear job losses

Courier Mail: Teachers, nurses demand pay rise as others fear job losses

JOB loss fears amid the recession and the fight for better pay for teachers and nurses are set to dominate today’s Labour Day march in Brisbane.

Teachers will lead the marches in Brisbane and regional centres to launch a national advertising campaign over state pay levels and in recognition of the 120th anniversary of the Queensland Teachers Union.

Australia: Drive for more poor students in unis

The Australian: Drive for more poor students in unis

THE Rudd Government today set a target of increasing the participation of the poor studying for degrees by 20 per cent by 2020.

The move will require universities and other providers to boost enrolments of low socio-economic status students by 55,000.