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Hello and welcome to the weekly CASA news. If you were at the Insecure Work conference or (more likely, given the location) weren’t, we’d really welcome your comment on our reflections on this. What did we miss? Jeannie Rea was certainly giving media interviews at the event so we’d be glad of pointers to mainstream national media … Continue reading
Hello and a warm welcome to new subscribers, contributors and commenters who joined us this week. This week’s patchy Twitter coverage of the AFR Higher Education Reform Summit in Melbourne suggested everyone showed up: Education Minister Pyne and Senator Kim Carr (ALP), Australian and international sector leadership keynotes, sector leaders, and student organisations including the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations … Continue reading
Hello and welcome to this week’s news of things relevant to the casualisation of Australian higher education. This week the government is promising to wait “as long as it takes” to negotiate a result on the reform of higher education funding in Australia. Students currently appealing for extensions on final tasks, as well as casuals working weekends … Continue reading
Here’s this week’s slightly delayed telecast of casualisation news from the perspective of Australian higher education. What’s going on? This week Erica Cervini (@thirddegreeblog) reported in The Age that universities are overenrolled to make up for funding shortfalls: Universities aren’t employing more staff – academics and professionals – to support increased numbers of students. As a … Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to a quick casualisation news round up this week. What’s happening here? Australian higher education is still waiting for the resolution of the reform bill consultation in Senate. At CASA we’re still waiting for anyone to notice that however higher education resolves the question of fee deregulation, a more price sensitive market is … Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to another week of casualisation news in Australian higher education. Just as last week’s news whizzed down the laundry chute, Andrew Norton’s report for the Grattan Institute, Mapping Australian Higher Education 2014-2015, was also released, with a substantial chapter on university staffing: Australia’s universities employed just under 116,000 people on a permanent or fixed-term contract basis … Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to our new subscribers over the last two weeks. We took a mini-break for the long weekend, so this is a delayed news roundup, with some more higher education rankings excitement, and news of increasingly organised industrial action in the US. In the last post we mentioned the QS rankings, noting that they … Continue reading
Welcome to this week’s CASA news, trawled from among the 132 individual and institutional submissions that have been received by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and Employment on the proposed higher education reform bill. The sustainability of higher education as a profession is the elephant in the kitchen of this reform proposal, that the government and institutional major stakeholders are continuing politely … Continue reading
A big hello this weekend to many new CASA subscribers. CASA has been running along for six months and is open to anyone who wants to write or raise issues concerning the casualisation of work in Australia’s higher education sector. What got us going is explained here. Not all of our writers and editors are casuals. CASA is … Continue reading
Hello and an at-last-undeniably springlike welcome to CASA’s weekly brew of news on the casualisation of higher education. What’s happening? The Senate Standing Committee on Education and Employment started taking public submissions on the proposed reform package, and as these will be framed by the focus of the reforms themselves, there’s no reason to expect much attention to … Continue reading
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