Staff and students from Brisbane’s universities rallied at King George Square last Thursday in protest of working conditions and remuneration. National Tertiary Education Union members from Australian Catholic University, Griffith, the Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Queensland…
As voting takes place this week for the 2022 QUT Student Guild Elections, students have the opportunity to vote for their representatives in 2023, with one caveat: only two positions out of 24 are contested. Only two tickets and a…
Nominations for QUT student representative positions in 2023 have been announced this week, with only four positions to be contested. Applications were open for positions on the QUT Student Guild, Student Representative Council, and Student Guild Board from August, as…
An open letter to the QUT Faculty of Business and Law urging ambitious climate action has been referred to the University by the QUT Student Guild, after having been disregarded for six months. The letter, co-signed by twelve faculty members,…
The QUT branch of the National Tertiary Education Union has voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking industrial action against the Queensland University of Technology later this semester. Conducted late last week, the poll followed six months of enterprise bargaining between…
New students starting university in 2022 will potentially lose their HECS-HELP loan assistance if they fail half of their classes. New laws passed under the Job Ready Graduates scheme in 2020 have been enacted this year. They will begin…
Hello, my name is Oscar, and I am the President of the QUT Student Guild. I am also Roma, or what some of you may know as gypsy. Today, April 8, is International Roma Day, and so I felt it…
The Queensland University of Technology Student Guild endorsed a motion from the floor at Guild Council on November 8th, promising to provide support to refugees in danger of deportation. QUT student Declan Kerr introduced a motion to council members requesting that the…
Representatives of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) have alleged over the past several months that wage theft is significant and widespread across the Australian higher education sector, as staff have ‘virtually no protection in terms of standing up…
The outgoing Queensland University of Technology Student Guild Secretary is not currently a student of the university, it was revealed at the November 8th Guild Council meeting at Kelvin Grove, after a tip from a third party. The QUT Student Guild Executives and Councillors in attendance were informed by Guild President…
