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Caitlin Cassidy
The Nationwide Tertiary Schooling Union (Nteu) will difficulty a vote of no confidence within the Australia Nationwide College’s vice chancellor if she stays in her place till subsequent yr.
Prof Genevieve Bell has been dealing with growing stress since a collection of articles revealed within the Australian Monetary Assessment (AFR) detailed a second paid job she held at Intel whereas within the vice chancellor place.
In a press release, the NTEU referred to as on the ANU Council to take away Bell earlier than February 2025, when it subsequent meets, to “prevent further damage to the ANU”.
If not, the NTEU will conduct a vote of no confidence, pointing to flagged job cuts, a majority vote in opposition to administration’s proposal for employees to forego their pay rise and her job at Intel.
A spokesperson for ANU stated as a public establishment, it had a “responsibility to use the taxpayer’s money responsibly”.
For us to promote belongings to proceed working operational deficits can be very poor observe, and one of many key causes we’ve been capable of retain a powerful credit standing is as a result of scores businesses can see we’re dedicated to getting our funds again so as.
They stated Bell’s work with Intel was “no secret” and revealed on the college’s personal web site, including the association was disclosed via its battle processes and identified by the Council.
It’s common throughout universities for teachers to work with exterior events of their fields of experience.
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The Albanese authorities is tipped to announce this week that it’ll attempt to pressure massive tech firms to proceed paying Australian information organisations for content material. Meta, the mum or dad firm of Fb, stated it might cease paying for information as agreed in a cope with the Coalition authorities in March 2022.
At this time is also the day when the Coalition tells us how a lot it should declare it’s going to value to construct the nuclear energy stations it says we’d like. There will likely be intense deal with the numbers, not least as a result of we have now a narrative this morning reporting that the fee may very well be double even the CSIRO estimate dissed by Peter Dutton this week.
Australia is predicted to affix a number of different international locations at an emergency session of the UN this morning in a vote for a decision to demand Israel reverse its ban on the Palestinian support company, Unrwa. It’ll additionally name for an instantaneous and everlasting ceasefire in Gaza in a transfer more likely to additional enrage Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the weekend’s spat. We’ll have particulars of the vote from New York when it goes down.
And the schooling union is pushing for a vote of no confidence within the Australian Nationwide College’s vice-chancellor – extra on this quickly.
