While university managements are boasting聽huge surpluses, they are refusing to make their聽largely casualised聽staff permanent and award them pay rises. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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The stresses on聽students to search for help聽to maintain their grades has risen under the pandemic and as a result of university cuts. Binoy Kampmark reports on how educational 鈥渟ervices鈥 are capitalising.
After a year of job cuts, Federation University has just announced a restructure of its academic portfolio, which will make teaching and learning harder,聽John Smith reports.
Students and staff are campaigning聽against the University of Sydney鈥檚 plans to move the Gender and Cultural Studies聽Department into the School of Social and Political Sciences. Elliott Guerrero reports.
Precarious workers in Cairns are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 economic crisis in Far North Queensland. Jonathan Strauss reports.
University workers from across the country have voted to plan unprotected industrial action to oppose federal education minister Daniel Tehan鈥檚 cuts to higher education, reports Markela Panegyres.
The University of Melbourne once enjoyed a reputation of being the highest-ranked tertiary institution in Australia. Now, it has been exposed as being among the top tertiary educational institutions for wage theft, reports Leo Crnogorcevic.
Casual workers without access to sick leave and savings need more than the welcome payments from the Victorian government, say Darrin Saffin and Chloe DS.
The federal government鈥檚 JobKeeper package will be a relief for about 6 million workers, but more than a million workers will be left to fend for themselves, writes Jim McIlroy.
Michael Bull reveals JobKeeper as a thinly disguised handout to businesses, and argues we need an assistance package that directly supports workers.
After explicitly ruling them out, the federal government has now announced it will legislate for wage subsidy packages. Lisbeth Latham takes a critical look at what's on offer.
The COVID-19 crisis is highlighting how inadequate the rules governing casual workers really are, writes Leo 颁谤苍辞驳辞谤膷别惫颈膰.
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