Education

The University of Wollongong has agreed to pay over $6.6 million to thousands of underpaid staff members as part of an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Victoria's student housing pipeline has surpassed NSW, but most projects are still at the approval stage, according to a Property Council report which expressed concerns the state's land taxes are slowing development.

Monash University has taken construction giant Multiplex to court after its subcontractor installed more than 1,000 bathroom pods in the university's residential buildings with allegedly defective floors that leaked. 

A judge hearing a class action against the University of Newcastle over engineering degrees that did not provide professional accreditation has refused to sign off on a deficient opt out notice. 

A law professor has sued Melbourne University for adverse action after he was allegedly suspended over a 2023 leaked email claiming Indigenous activism was leading to the institution's “destruction.” 

Project management firm Donald Cant Watts Corke says Multiplex should go down with it if Monash University wins its case over the presence of alleged hazardous insulation at the college campus in Melbourne's CBD.

A Melbourne University engineering professor who was sacked for sending intimate messages to a PhD student has been reinstated after the Fair Work Commission found he was unfairly dismissed.

The University of Newcastle has been hit with a class action alleging students were misled into studying an engineering degree that lacked professional accreditation and left them unable to apply for employment.

Griffith University has signed an enforceable undertaking to backpay $8.34 million in wages, interest and superannuation to 5,457 staff who were underpaid over a nine-year period.

A judge has dismissed a class action applicant’s claim that he was underpaid as a University of Sydney postgraduate student, but left for another day the question of whether the court should also make orders binding group members.