Connect vol 10 no 2 now available

The trend is fewer and fewer decent jobs, with one in two new jobs in higher education now precarious. The ACTU’s claim that 40% of jobs in Australia are now insecure is disputed by the business advocates, but there is no disputing that 40% of the higher education sector are in insecure employment. The official government data supplied from the universities says so. The FTE actual casual and limited term workforce is growing at three times the rate of the (more) secure workforce. More...