{"id":27396829,"date":"2025-07-14T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsw.nteu.au\/council\/?page_id=27396829"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:42:18","slug":"our-unis-our-future","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nsw.nteu.au\/council\/our-unis-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Our unis. Our future."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our unis.<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Our future.<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Join the NTEU call for transparency and accountability at our NSW public unis. Read our submission to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into University Governance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Read the NTEU inquiry submission<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The higher education sector in NSW is in crisis.<\/h1>\n

Thousands of jobs have been threatened or cut at universities including UTS, Macquarie, WSU, Wollongong, CSU, UoN and SCU. These aren\u2019t just numbers. They\u2019re people\u2019s livelihoods.<\/strong> They\u2019re the lecturers, librarians, IT, professional staff, researchers, and student support staff that are the heart of our universities.<\/p>\n

These cuts didn't and don't need to happen. They\u2019re part of a wider shift in how universities are run, from public institutions grounded in education, equity and critical thinking, to corporatised, managerial entities <\/strong>driven by revenue targets, private consultancy firms, and bloated executive salaries.<\/p>\n

Staff are being treated as costs to be cut, not people and communities to be supported. Students are losing courses, services and learning conditions. At UTS, SafeWork NSW took an unprecedented step intervening in the restructure process because of the psychosocial hazards caused by these restructures. The consequences are immediate and severe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

NTEU members across the state are already taking incredible action to defend their jobs and their institutions, but the more of us there are, the stronger we\u2019ll be. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Our Unis Our Future <\/em>campaign is about fighting back and defending jobs now but also reshaping the future so this crisis can never be manufactured again. We\u2019re calling for stronger protections for workers, democratic oversight of university leadership, and a vision for higher education that puts staff, students and communities first.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join thousand of NTEU members<\/a> calling for transparency and accountability at our NSW public unis.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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