Deakin, union agree on teaching roles DEAKIN University and the National Tertiary Education Union are on track to agree new flexible work loads that will see some academics become virtually teaching-only academics with 70 per cent of their time allocated to teaching. While Deakin and the university are at logger heads over a pay talks, NTEU Victorian secretary Colin Long said there was largely agreement over a clause on a more flexible work place model. Deakin is spruiking the model as allowing "staff to work to their strengths."