Year begins with both trepidation & relief (Advocate 23 01)

By Jeannie Rea. Early election speculation is rife and Coalition Government policy is still to deregulate fees, cut university grants and hand over public money to private, including for-profit, providers. The next round of university enterprise bargaining has begun in Western Australia and the employers association, the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association (AHEIA), recently released a report on the future of the higher education workforce which concludes that Enterprise Agreements are an impediment to change. More...