The flood of insecure employment at Australian universities (Advocate 25 03)

NTEU estimates that Australia’s universities employed about 213,000 people in 2017. Our estimate on the number of employees based on Department of Education and Training staffing statistics (Figure 1) are confirmed by Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) staffing profiles for 2016-17 which show that universities employed 212,378 people in that year. Of these, approximately 75,000 (35%) had secure ongoing (tenurial) jobs, 48,000 (22%) had limited term contracts and 91,000 (45%) were casuals. More...