By Jeannie Rea. The latest edition of Advocate (vol. 23, no. 1) is now available online. We hope you find this issue informative and enlightening, and look forward to your feedback or comments. More...
14 avril 2016
The latest edition of Advocate (vol. 23, no. 1) is now available online
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...
When is an interest a conflict? (Advocate 23 01)
By Jeannie Rea. Despite the welcome news from Victoria of the restoration of staff and students onto university councils, participation of staff and students continues to be challenged by some chancellors and vice-chancellors and their allies in government. More...
Challenging the privatised university, by Andrew Bonnell (Advocate 23 01)
By Paul Clifton. The colonisation of universities by neoliberalism and corporate influence represents a major challenge to the essential role of universities. More...
Living the ‘student experience’, by Richard Hil (Advocate 23 01)
By Paul Clifton. But this was not the usual round of complaints about how the ‘three Ms’ – marketisation, massification and managerialism – have turned higher education into a service-based industry overseen by zealous bean counters. No, the conference explored the very innards of what is a lucrative, commercially oriented system – from the incursions of multinational corporations into teaching and research, the drudgery of endless measurement, through to the soul destroying tasks of processing travel claims and accessing the stationary cupboard. More...
7/11: The tipping point (Advocate 23 01)
By Andrew MacDonald. What is the tipping point for exploitation of international students working in Australia?
Many who frequented 7-Eleven stores during the franchise’s rise to ubiquity in Australia may have fleetingly wondered about the lives of the staff who dutifully staffed counters, regardless of the time of day or night, public holidays or weekends. More...
Deb O’Neill and the benefits of unions (Advocate 23 01)
By Andrew MacDonald. Since an early foray into the workforce with a retail job during her time as a student, the Federal Labor Senator for NSW, and NTEU member, has known the value of belonging. Senator O’Neill said what started as a ‘friendly and warm’ introduction to the movement has – during a career encompassing retail, teaching, academia and politics – become an unwavering belief in the value of unions and the risks of becoming complacent. More...
