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These fee hikes are pathetic. The Liberals' juvenile Murdoch-driven loathing of students and the humanities is on clear display today.
Degrees should be free for all students.
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Degrees should be free for all students.
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Education isn’t just about getting you a job - it's a public good and it’s certainly shouldn't be about punishing students who wish to study humanities and the law.
Arts graduate Minister Tehan's jobs rhetoric is empty. He's part of a Government that would rather throw a tantrum at humanities students and slam them with higher fees than do the hard work of creating jobs across the economy.
BREAKING: Greens' disallowance of rules excluding public universities from JobKeeper voted down by just 1 vote in the Senate.
This isn't over. We'll keep fighting for every job in our unis! The Gov could fix this with the stroke of a pen #SaveHigherEdJobs #auspol @NTEUNational
This isn't over. We'll keep fighting for every job in our unis! The Gov could fix this with the stroke of a pen #SaveHigherEdJobs #auspol @NTEUNational
The Government are fully aware that 30,000 peoples’ jobs are on the line, but they just don’t care, because this is an opportunity to destabilise and weaken the university sector and lay the groundwork for further marketisation.
Scott Morrison and his minister’s mistreatment of universities in this crisis is nothing but their ideology writ large, and with a $60bn underspend they don’t even have a financial justification to hide behind for excluding unis — or migrants & casuals — from JobKeeper.
This fortnight has been brutal for @Deakin staff. What we know: within days of the VC’s announcement last Wednesday, 100s of staff have been told their jobs are going, or that they’ll need to compete for them. #savehigheredjobs 1/5
In addition to large scale redundancies of @Deakin professional staff announced or forecast last week, academic staff have today started to be called into meetings with management. #savehigheredjobs 2/5
Staff have had little time to prepare or seek union representation, and NTEU reps have been unable to keep up with the scale of “consultations” #savehigheredjobs 3/5
With tens of thousands of jobs on the line, it is outrageous that the government won’t lift a finger to help save livelihoods and the future of higher education.
What's the plan, Dan? #SaveHigherEdJobs @NTEUNational
What's the plan, Dan? #SaveHigherEdJobs @NTEUNational
Universities around the country are already cutting staff and courses in response to this crisis. As semester two approaches, this will only get worse.
Job & course cuts will have generational impacts on university teaching and research in our country.
Job & course cuts will have generational impacts on university teaching and research in our country.
University workers are being left high and dry by a government that has not only resisted providing them support, but put up extra barriers every step of the way during this crisis. It seems this government simply doesn’t care.
Through repeated changes to the rules, the government has deliberately excluded unis from the JobKeeper scheme.
Today I've lodged a disallowance motion in the Senate to overturn as many of those rules as we can #auspol #SaveHigherEdJobs
Today I've lodged a disallowance motion in the Senate to overturn as many of those rules as we can #auspol #SaveHigherEdJobs
30,000 jobs are on the line, with impacted staff in every corner of the country. The unfair treatment must end this week. Parliament has the opportunity to reject this malicious exclusion of universities.
The government keeps shifting the goalposts and the madness has to stop. The failure to support universities through this crisis jeopardises not just our recovery but also our long-term future.
No higher education jobs should be lost. With universities unfairly excluded from the JobKeeper wage subsidy, the government must step up immediately to provide a new funding package. Job security on campuses must be guaranteed, ensuring that all casual staff are also retained.
Across the country, universities are drawing up plans to cut staff and wages. From PhD students to career academics and professional staff, higher education workers will lose their jobs as a direct result of the government’s failure to provide support during the COVID-19 crisis.
Unis are some of the most casualised workplaces in the country. Staff and students are now suffering as a result.
Unis have been starved of adequate public funding for decades. This has led to a reliance on revenue from international student enrolments, which are disappearing.
Unis have been starved of adequate public funding for decades. This has led to a reliance on revenue from international student enrolments, which are disappearing.
