The University of Canberra (UC) will offer debt-free undergraduate and postgraduate courses to staff made redundant in its restructure. The university announced in November it would have to make 200 academic and professional positions redundant between December and June 2025 ...

Data collated by the tertiary education union has revealed there are 306 university executives who earn more than their state's premier, even as the sector has cut over 2000 jobs in recent months. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) report ...

A review of how universities are governed is to start in December after it has been revealed up to six institutions so far plan to cut staff to handle budget deficits. As reported in Campus Review on Monday, James Cook ...

Macquarie University has found it underpaid almost 3,000 casual academic staff by a combined $1.9m between 2017 and 2023. The announcement comes after an internal investigation between 2016 and 2022, initiated by the university itself, found another 1033 casual academics who ...

The Australian National University has admitted to underpaying 2290 workers a total of $2 million, an average of $599 each, over 11 years due to casual timesheet processing errors. A frequenty asked questions page about the issue on ANU's website ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has called for an urgent parliamentary inquiry into wage theft in universities after revealing institutions have now underpaid staff by almost $400m since 2009. The data released on Wednesday showed a total of $382m ...

The University of Queensland (UQ) will repay almost $8m to nearly 10,000 casual academics after admitting they were underpaid for their work from 2017 to 2023. Vice-chancellor Deborah Terry said she unreservedly apologised to those who had been affected by ...

Swinburne University has reported itself to the Fair Work Ombudsman after an investigation found more than 1800 current and former staff had been underpaid between 2017 and 2023. The investigation found 1699 employees – including casual lecturers, unit conveners, research assistants and ...

James Cook University (JCU) has launched a review into its payroll system amid concerns thousands of staff have been underpaid.  The “historical compliance concerns” relate to casual employee payments across the north Queensland university, which has staff mainly based in Cairns ...

The University of Melbourne has admitted it breached fair work legislation and has been fined almost $75,000 in the Federal Court after it threatened two casual academic staff members. The Fair Work Ombudsman pursued legal action against the university when ...