PLEASE GUYS THIS IS TOO MUCH FOR TUESDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

Just curious, since there’s gonna be a strike tomorrow, my friends and I have been thinking about joining it but for demanding in the university ranking increase, because our ranking has dropped 10 places in just two years!! (From 18 to 28)

We just want to carry the banner and that’s all!!
Would that be allowed?

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i have to do some work in fisher during wed’s strike and i know that the usu outlets are gonna be closed. are the other non-usu outlets gonna be open, or what’s good to eat around campus?

Pretty much ive applied for MOT and haven't heard anything in 4 weeks since I got an email saying im eligible. Do I give up hope and accept that I didnt get in? What are my other options? What unis around AU does everyone accept for studying OT for someone with a WAM of 77. Thanks 😭

Hey all,

Hope you are doing well.

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Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time. Interested in hearing real experiences here, good or bad.

Hey! I’m currently considering changing my major to Engineering, but I want to get a better idea of what the classes are actually like before I make the decision.

Does anyone know where/when the introductory or first-year Engineering classes usually happen? I was hoping to sit in on a lecture just to see what they actually do in class and whether it’s something I’d enjoy.

Also, if you’re studying Engineering at USyd, I’d love to know what the first-year classes are actually like, what do you usually do during lectures/tutorials/practicals, and how difficult is it for someone with no engineering background?

Hi, if anyone has any spare tickets for the above date and time PLS consider selling them to me, I’d rlly appreciate
Thank you 😸🙏

Hello peeps, I’m currently looking for a speaking partner to improve my english skills

Preferably in person meets @ Vic Park or on Campus 30ish mins / day

Hmu if you’re interested thanks!

Hey everyone,
Has anyone received their complete official transcript who graduated in sem1 2026? I have received the completion letter but not the transcript.

TLDR; Decasualisation might actually be really bad for the majority of the existing casual tutoring cohort.

For those who don't know, decasualisation of academic teaching is one of the live issues in this bargaining round. The NTEU's log of claims includes strengthening decasualisation clauses and limiting insecure work. The University's counter-proposal is the Secure Academic Employment Package: Teaching Associates, Senior Teaching Associates, and Postgraduate Fellows. The Provost emailed all casual academic staff about it today (1 September), and the Teaching Associate exemplars went up on the intranet the same day.

To be clear about who is proposing what, because it matters: the TA and Fellow roles as drafted are management's proposal, not the union's. But this concept is something that the union is fighting for, and so because of this, I think the objection I'm raising is one I don't think anyone is going to raise.

I want to say up front that I understand why casualisation is a problem. If tutoring is your only income, if you've spent years stitching together semesters with no leave and no certainty about next March, then decasualisation is the thing you need and I'm not arguing against you getting it. Wage theft on unpaid marking and admin is real. The claim for 17 per cent super for casuals is straightforwardly good.

But there's a group this affects badly, and it's the least organised group on campus, so I don't think our position is being put.

Ask the Engineering cohort before you believe the pitch.

The Postgraduate Fellow role has been piloted in the Faculty of Engineering, with over 100 fellows recruited for Semester 2. The Provost's email presents this as a success: most were previously casual, and now they have fixed-term employment with leave and 17 per cent super.

That is not what I'm hearing from my peers (myself included). What I've been told is that accepting a Fellowship means you can no longer tutor as a casual, and that the hours allocated under the Fellowship were fewer than the hours people had been working before. If that's accurate, then for those candidates the pilot was a pay cut delivered as a security upgrade. At least one person I know pulled their application on realising this.

You also have to do many more admin hours, and as I mentioned, are restricted from teaching more classes.

Also, even though casuals may still be around, communication says "priority unit allocation" as a benefit for Fellows. If the fellowship becomes the only channel through which you're permitted to teach, then priority within that channel is what you receive in exchange for no longer being able to pick up tutorials wherever they come up.

Every Teaching Associate exemplar is a full-time role.

Economics advertises two full-time continuing TAs for ECON1001/2. Computer Science creates a full-time TA for COMP2123, on the basis that Semester 2 still runs sixteen tutorials a week. Psychology creates a full-time TA across PSYC3018 and PSYC3020. Life and Environmental Sciences creates multiple full-time TAs for first-year Biology. There is not a single part-time fraction anywhere in the document.

I'm doing a PhD. I cannot take a full-time continuing job. Neither can any other candidate or honour's student, or entry worker that loves teaching and wants to do 1 or 2 classes during the week. So when the tutorial load in a large core unit is consolidated into one or two full-time positions, that work isn't converted for us. It's converted away from us, into roles we're structurally ineligible to hold.

Look at who the exemplars imagine filling them, too. The Computer Science TA is an Honours graduate tutoring to save money before she applies to a PhD, whose professional development time goes to writing her PhD proposal. The Economics TA has a coursework Masters. These are people on either side of candidature, not in it.

I want to be careful not to overclaim here. The exemplars don't abolish casual tutoring, and casuals still appear in them, assisting with marking and being supervised. But the units targeted are the large first- and second-year units, and those are precisely where most HDR candidates get their teaching hours. That's not a coincidence, it's the stated criterion: units where a substantial portion of teaching is currently done by casuals.

But let's say that you do want to do the full time job. It seems to be like it is a paid decrease.

Under the current agreement a casual tutorial carries associated working time: two hours for the initial delivery, one hour for each repeat. Marking is a separate activity, paid at a marking rate for the hours you spend on it.

The Economics exemplar has one Teaching Associate covering roughly eighteen one-hour tutorials a week. Priced as casual work, the tutorial component alone comes to about 37 paid hours per week, before any marking.

As a Teaching Associate, one full-time week has to cover all of it. The exemplar allocates an average of six hours a week for tutorial preparation, and the rest comes out of "flexible time" that the document says is used for marking, or preparation, or service and admin. There is no separate marking payment. When marking hits, the exemplar states plainly that flexible time gets committed to it.

So the preparation and marking don't disappear. They stop being separately counted and start competing with each other inside a fixed salary. That is the mechanism by which this package is affordable, and it comes from the University's own exemplar rather than from me.

Anyway, this is just my view. I personally am quite worried about this, and I think tutors should be too. Honestly, this post is not rage-bait. I hope someone in the comments is able to help me see why this could actually be a better situation for the majority of tutors.

This is my first time experiencing a strike. My teacher mentioned that tomorrow's class will proceed as scheduled. Will strikers or picket lines block students?

Does anyone who has taken SCIE1001 (or is taking it now) have advice on how to prep for the Week 5 in-class test?

The tutors keep telling us to "revise the lecture content," but that feels pretty vague and I’m not sure what to expect. If anyone knows where to access past papers, practice questions, or has more specific advice on what to focus on, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

From an article in the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/02/macquarie-university-using-ai-chatbot-tutorials):

The University of Sydney has positioned itself as a leader in the field, with hundreds of academics using its education-focused generative AI platform, “Cogniti,” for chatbots and scenario exercises. It has shared Cogniti with other institutions in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
The university in late August released a discussion paper that envisions futures where AI takes on even greater responsibilities, delivering personalised teaching for each student in each unit, while staff-student contact hours decline.
A university spokesperson said Sydney was only supporting staff to use technology to improve student experience.
“Human judgement, accountability and relationships are essential to everything we do, and can never be replaced by technology,” the spokesperson said. “This isn’t a cost-saving measure in any way.”
Peter Chen, president of the university’s national tertiary education union (NTEU) branch, said the paper had added to growing staff concern about their future at the university as funding shortfalls left fewer academics to run bigger classes, Chen said.
“For some staff, they’re afraid they’re going to lose their jobs,” Chen said.
“For other staff, the concern is that everything that makes the job worth doing will be lost … and they will be there simply to take the blame when things go wrong.
The university’s staff plan to go on strike on Wednesday, fighting for AI protections and other support against growing workloads and job insecurity. Chen said the union would not accept a deal that did not address AI.
The university said it would continue to engage in bargaining but Wednesday’s strike was “premature”. AI’s rapid evolution meant it should be governed at the university’s discretion through policy, rather than set in a three-year enterprise agreement, its spokesperson said.
But Dr Alison Barnes, national president of the NTEU and a Macquarie academic, said staff across the sector would fight for workplace agreements that address AI.
“University staff are being hammered by a workload crisis, but simply papering over those cracks with piecemeal AI rollouts could actually create even more damaging issues,” Barnes said.

I'm an undergrad business school student and for a lot of finance/company research, we've been using CAPIQ for the last couple of years.

Last week we've had our access revoked and aws wondering if anyone had found a solution/bypass to it.

I've asked the librarian, and it seems that they don't know of USYD ever subscribing to CAPIQ.

Hey I need to go to campus at 7pm tomorrow to use a room. I am not going to class or go against the strike. Should I be fine or will there still be like the mass lot of students locking people out??

Hi! BAP x McKinsey just opened registration for their case comp. It’s my first case comp but I want to do well. Does anyone want to do it together?

Hi all,

Guitarist here with 10+ years experience (played throughout primary school, high school and the HSC), looking for fellow musicians who would be eager to jam. I am open to playing in genre but I love rock n roll.

Happy to meet link up on campus and have a chat if anyone is interested!

Hi everyone, I'm doing the HSTY1002: Age of Empires unit this semester and I am struggling quite a bit, our first assignment is due this Friday so I would love any advice or opinions from anyone who is doing this unit or who has done this unit. Thanks