University of Melbourne coughs up $72m to cover wage theft
The state’s leading university has been ordered to fork out a staggering $72m after it underpaid more than 25,000 staff members for a decade.
The state’s leading university has been ordered to fork out a staggering $72m after it underpaid more than 25,000 staff members for a decade.
There are serious concerns for La Trobe University students in need of support services, after the tertiary institution withdrew its current student advocacy funding agreement.
The salaries of some of Victoria’s university chiefs are higher than that of Premier Jacinta Allan, as the eye-watering amount the institutions have forked out on consultants is also revealed.
Graduates will not have to pay their student loans back until they earn $67,000 as Anthony Albanese nominates study debt as a key election battleground.
Victorian registered training organisations say their services have been “cut off at the knees” after the state government reduced funding to some manufacturing and building training providers.
Students involved in pro-Palestine encampments at two Melbourne universities have avoided expulsion, despite occupying main thoroughfares and causing Jewish community members to fear for their safety.
A program allowing students access to university without the stress of year 12 exams has been hailed as the future of education — so what does it mean for the ATAR system?
Vice-chancellors at some of the state’s top universities are raking in million-dollar salaries while treating their employees to a string of discounts. See the perks enjoyed by university staff.
Concerns over “confronting” pro-Palestine protests and a rise in anti-Semitism on campus has prompted several students to leave the uni or delay their course.
Deakin has become the first university in Australia to order the dismantling of a pro-Palestine encampment — here’s why the camps are so controversial.
Staff at La Trobe University have been told to let encampment protesters disrupt classes to allow them to “share the information they wish to”.
More than three million uni students, apprentices and trainees will share in $3bn of student debt to be wiped out in this month’s federal budget. See how much you’ll save.
The nation’s university chancellors have refused to condemn anti-Semitism on Australian campuses as Jewish students say they are “sick of intimidation” and call on the leaders to do more.
Victorian TAFE teachers will no longer record student attendance or work extra hours as they ramp up industrial action, including — in certain circumstances — walking out of classrooms.
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