A wave of restructuring involving massive job cuts is occurring in higher education – and will gather force over the months and years ahead. One of the key budget measures is for more government money to flow to private colleges. As the Financial Review recently trumpeted, the “lower cost base” of these private institutions will put intense pressure on existing public universities – which these institutions will try to meet by cutting wages, conditions and jobs. So a lot depends on how the main union in higher education, the NTEU, responds to the vicious job cuts recently announced at Melbourne and La Trobe universities.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 22:50:10 +0000
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