Tax time can be a time of dread for many of you university staff members, as you try to sift through boxes of receipts to work out what deductions you can claim on your tax return. You aren’t alone. In fact, ...
More »Call for close look at curbing casualisation of uni workforce
Serious investigation into full-time employment pathways for casual academics was among key recommendations of a new report on producing gender equity in higher education. Women, Careers, and Universities: Where to from here? reinforces a hoard of other published literature that ...
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The number of women in top jobs at higher education institutions has gone stagnant; the reasons why are in the culture. By Antonia Maiolo. Although Australia has gone to great efforts to close the gender equity gap across the workforce, ...
More »Need for more engineers still ‘critical’
The number of engineering students is not enough to meet workforce demands but moves are underway to bridge the gap. By Antonia Maiolo Over the last few years experts have warned of a potential skills shortage in the field of ...
More »Union calls for change to act
The NTEU says members are angry with UWS management over their stance during negotiations for a new enterprise agreement. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is calling for amendments to the Fair Work Act after it accused the Fair ...
More »PhDs who had no plans to find work in academia do : UK survey
In the UK the proportion of doctoral students who find academic jobs is greater than the proportion with a definite aspiration to do so – except in the arts and humanities, a major survey of PhD students’ career aspirations have ...
More »Boundaries blur as academics take on other work
University general/professional staffs are sometimes presented as if they were part of the ‘problem’ rather than as people with key roles to play in universities, a conference in Sydney has heard. “One could be forgiven for thinking that universities only ...
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