Students demand fair income support
Posted Wed Aug 20, 04:33 PM in blogMelbourne Students staged a mock wedding ceremony to highlight the unfairness of student income support.
Melbourne Students staged a mock wedding ceremony to highlight the unfairness of student income support.
Your Student Union wants to know what you feel about your Arts “experience”- so tell us! Update: You can fill out the survey online
The National Union of Students is shocked that despite record Government investment into university infrastructure in tonight’s budget, no money will be available to save vital student services, despite Government assurances that the crisis facing student organisations would be resolved this year.
The National Union of Students comments on Macquarie Uni’s volunteer program, voices concerns.
Is the Melbourne University Arts Faculty at breaking point?
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We don’t yet have a resources page to load things up so here’s a sample script for anyone wanting to make announcements about this week’s Education Action Collective at lectures or classes.
This week, the Education Action Collective will have a bumper meeting!
The National Union of Students feels that poor students will be let down by a proposal to let university students to “pay off” their HECS debt by doing volunteer work.
On Wednesday 16th April, the Save Arts Campaign stepped up a notch, with students rallying in Cussonia Court to protest staff cuts in the Arts Faculty. Around a hundred students, staff and curious onlookers showed up to see what all the fuss was about.
On Monday 14th April, concerned students mounted the steps of Melbourne University’s Old Quad to protest the Arts Faculty’s approach to “projected deficits”.
Under the imposed budgetary and governance structures of the university, the different faculties are made responsible for their own fates. What this means is that faculties such as Arts are expected to “break even” despite their inability to attract as...