Excessive managerialism, neoliberalisation and casualisation are some of the main challenges that are threatening the viability and the values of the university today. Sara Ahmed a...

The education market Two distinct understandings of the corporation have become entwined with one another in the contemporary public university, which has caused confusion and unce...

I firmly believe that universities and academics have the potential to do good; to contribute to a more just, sustainable and peaceful future for our world by advancing public know...

antistudy these days suggest economy 10 to six five & a half days; read widely but with sycophant calculation in order ‘not to fail’ this, don’t sit too long on this bench cons...

Levels of insecure employment within the university sector are increasing. Casual and contract staff have no guarantee of on-going employment. However casual and contract workers (...

Australian universities are now more reliant on casualised labour than at any other point in their history. While university management may see this as a positive trend, this essay...

Rosie Joy Barron is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, where she is involved with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). For this...

In March of 2019, during a rally, Donald Trump threatened to execute an executive order requiring “colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research fu...

How can I ever tell you what is really like? How do I explain the will necessary to get up each day, to go and work somewhere that I know doesn’t value me? How do I explain the imp...

A shifting margin pivots on desire to assimilate under the purview of theorists who say the goodies are for the earning . Publishing is your real estate.   Texts incise – a coll...

“When some day we enter the university – that is to say, when we occupy and decolonize it – we will not merely open the doors and redecorate the walls. We will destroy both so that...

I find it fascinating how in the short time since I graduated from my university’s Diploma of Languages in 2016 and its PhB Bachelor of Philosophy (Arts) in 2017, both programs [1]...

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Kambri is an island, a detachment that floats separate to the rest of campus. This “cultural precinct” and “community space” features a flashy bookstore, cafés, student services, a...

Academic labour is grounded in long-established, and sometimes hard-won, scholarly traditions that help to shape and direct academic disciplines and secure the trust of the wider p...

Although universities have developed differently in each country, essentially all universities are similar: they are communities of students and scholars. Universities are communit...

Welcome to our university, where you will experience the best education the world can offer. Our focus on teaching excellence, and our endeavour to provide you learning tailored to...

Much clanking in the rhododendrons, knights in the garden Black knights, white knights, knights of the haiku table Goes at pashing and tableaux of Glenrowan, garden knights Much en...

This is an edited version of an address to an NTEU election forum in April 2019, when the author was Greens candidate for the seat of Canberra. Universities are a critical site not...

The Matters of Concern Collective (MoCC) is a group of academics and PhD students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds who have come together in response to existing conditions...

Lina Koleilat interviews Raewyn Connell the author of  The Good University:  What universities actually do and why it’s time for radical change , (Monash University Publishing, 201...

Posters and images by  Annie McCarthy .