Publications
NTEU keeps you up to date with two issues annually of Connect and other special publications of interest to casual and sessional staff.
Members receive 3 issues annually of the NTEU magazine, Advocate, and can choose to receive publications such as Frontline (women's journal) and Australian Universities Review (academic journal)
CONNECT, vol.3 no.2
The 5th national edition (August 2010) of NTEU's magazine for Australian casual and sessional academics.
- Bargaining Update:New Agreements contains positive provisions for casuals
- Paid Parental Leave: What it means for you
- Academic casualisation - a class issue?
- NTEU Monash Branch publishes Survival Guide for sessional staff
- NTEU La Trobe Sessional Academic Booklet
- The Third Degree: A casual affair(AUS blog)
- Member focus: Morgan Rodgers Gibson
CONNECT, vol.3 no.1
The 4th national edition (March 2010) of NTEU's magazine for Australian casual and sessional academics.
- Bargaining State of Play
- The crisis in education isn't looming, it's here
- NTEU casual membership is a grand investment
- Fair payment for marking and other academic activities: a proposal
- Member focus: Roge Mairet and Richard Bailey
- The Insecure Scholar (UK blog)
CONNECT, vol.2 no.2
The 3rd national edition (August 2009) of NTEU's magazine for Australian casual and sessional academics.
- Bargaining for Respect
- UC moves backward on job security
- A patron saint for casual workers
- Member focus: Chris Elenor
CONNECT, vol.2 no.1
The 2nd national edition (March 2009) of NTEU's magazine for Australian casual and sessional academics.
- The Bradley Review
- Casuals' Charter
- Back pay success stories
- UB Agreement delivers gold for casuals
- Canadian snow picketing
- Member focus: Neville Wright
EXTRA ONLINE ONLY CONTENT:
SMART CASUALS, 3rd ed.
The third edition (2007) of NTEU's handbook for casual and sessional academics.
- Being a casual
- Advice for when you start work
- Advice for when you're at work
- Checklist
- What is NTEU?
GETTING THE BEST OF YOU FOR NOTHING: Casual voices in the Australian academy
A 2006 paper written by Tony Brown, James Goodman and Keiko Yasukawa (UTS) for the NTEU. An in-depth qualitative study of the experiences of casual academic staff in an Australian university.
CASUAL UNIVERSITY WORK: Choice, Risk, Inequity and the Case for Regulation
Paper by Dr Anne Junor (UNSW), published in Economic and Labour Relations Review vol. 14 no. 2 January 2004, on the demographics and career preferences of casual employees in Australia's universities.
CONNECT, vol.1 no.1
The 1st national edition (Sept 2008) of NTEU's magazine for Australian casual and sessional academics.
- Our Universities Matter
- NTEU National Casual & Sessional Academic Staff Conference
- Preparing for Collective Bargaining
- Victorian Casual & Sessional Staff Survey
- NTEU calls for minimum standards of employment
- Balancing life and work
- Member focus: Sigrid Christiansen
CONNECT (Victoria) 2007
The 1st edition (July 2007) of NTEU Victorian Division's magazine for casual and sessional academics.
- NTEU Victorian Academic Casual/Sessional Conference
- Minimum Standards for Casual/Sessional Employment
- Camels, Straw and Health Care Cards
- What is the Broader Picture for Casual Work?
- The Elephant in the Room
- The Myth of the Teaching Hour