Does our casual employment data stack up? (Advocate 25 03)

As discussed below, while there are publicly available measures of the levels of casual employment at our universities, we need to ask whether these measures aid in understanding who is engaged in casual work at our universities, what is the nature and pattern of casual employment, how it has changed, and what, if any implications this has had on the quality of teaching, research and support and service being delivered by our universities. More...