Australia's university sector has winners, losers and big losers. But will 2022 turn things around? Leo Tolstoy's famous opening to Anna Karenina reads: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
" The Russian master was writing in 1877, but in 2021 it's an apt description of Australia's university family — and the pandemic’s uneven impact on it. Some universities have actually increased revenue since the pandemic began, yet the heads of some other families — the vice-chancellors — are deeply unhappy. The reasons why are complex, and it's not just down to the loss of international students. One university had a pandemic response plan in the bottom drawer and prospered (yes, they'd workshopped it before 2020), while others have suffered. Students, too, feel they're missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime rite of passage, persistently questioning why so much of campus life remains remote, even as lockdowns are lifted. In 2020, Australian universities lost 5.1 per cent of 2019 revenue. Some lost much, much more. The winners The small losers The big losers. Universities accused of 'sham contracting' as wage scandal in Australia's higher education sector deepens - ABC News.
The wage theft scandal that has engulfed the tertiary sector this year is now moving to the Federal Court, with the National Tertiary Education Union and four former staff members pursuing private university JMC Academy.
Key points: Unions are accusing the Sydney-based university of "sham contracting", a trend they says is increasing in the sector JMC is the latest university to be accused of wage theft after an ABC investigation exposed what some say is higher education's "dirty secret"A newly released union survey found wage theft to be widespread, with 78 per cent of respondents claiming one form of underpayment The Sydney-based university, which specialises in creative fields, is facing back pay and penalty requests for what lawyers say are "serious contraventions" of the Fair Work Act. In one case, the lawsuit seeks unpaid superannuation going back 18 years. NTEU National Assistant Secretary Gabe Gooding likened it to "sham contracting". Government briefing to allay universities' fears over foreign veto laws adds to uncertainty.
Australian universities could get the green light to strike deals with international counterparts under the Morrison government’s new foreign veto laws, only to have the agreements ripped up years down the track because “foreign policy considerations are not static”.
As concerns grow within the higher education sector about the reach of a proposed bill giving Canberra the power to cancel international deals, Guardian Australia has learned that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat) attempted to allay those concerns at a briefing for universities last week. University representatives raised fears at the briefing that the new laws could have a “chilling effect” on international research collaboration – given that Australia’s foreign affairs minister could initially allow an agreement to enter into force, only to veto at a later stage.
Universities fear such wide discretion could erode international partners’ confidence to enter into negotiations with Australian researchers. University fees to be overhauled, some course costs to double as domestic student places boosted - ABC News. Swinburne staff warned of job cuts as universities' COVID-19 woes grow. "As a result of COVID-19, Monash has faced its largest annual reductions in revenue in the university’s history, and it is likely that next year will be worse," vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner said.
Staff at Monash are being urged to sign up to a union-negotiated framework involving temporary pay cuts of up to 15 per cent to avoid widespread job losses. Swinburne vice-chancellor Professor Linda Kristjanson told staff the university had “initiated consultation on voluntary redundancies” but could not rule out forced redundancies. Related Article “There is a possibility that involuntary redundancies may be required in coming months to meet the changing environment we are now facing, including significantly reduced student numbers and less capital investment,” Professor Kristjanson said in an all-staff email on Tuesday.
Coronavirus impact on international student numbers will be felt longer than the GFC, experts say - ABC News. Australian universities face an existential dilemma. Nocookies. You have cookies turned off To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser. To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below. Facebook App: Open links in External Browser There is a specific issue with the Facebook in-app browser intermittently making requests to websites without cookies that had previously been set. This appears to be a defect in the browser which should be addressed soon. Open the settings menu by clicking the hamburger menu in the top rightChoose “App Settings” from the menuTurn on the option “Links Open Externally” (This will use the device’s default browser) Windows Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 9 Open the Internet BrowserClick Tools (or “gear” icon at top right hand corner) > Internet Options > Privacy > AdvancedCheck Override automatic cookie handlingFor First-party Cookies and Third-party Cookies click AcceptClick OK and OK.
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How many international students are there studying in Australian Universities? These are two of the commonly asked questions about the number of students in Australia especially regarding both local and international student statistics. It is important to note ithat there are many domestic and international students who are not studying in an actual designated university and instead are studying in one of the many colleges or TAFEs in other areas of the higher education sector including vocational education, english, or other diploma or degree level studies. The following table shows the student population at the Australian universities and the higher education sector both in total and in proportional numbers. ANU.
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RMIT University. Swinburne University of Technology. Victoria University. Australian Catholic University (ACU) FedUni - Learn to succeed - Federation University Australia. The University of Western Australia. Curtin University Australia. Edith Cowan University Western Australia. Murdoch University. The University of Notre Dame Australia. Dr Chris McGrath - School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management - The University of Queensland, Australia. Position Senior Lecturer (Environmental Regulation) Contact Room: 35-423 Phone: 334-67405 Email: chris.mcgrath@uq.edu.au Website: Environmental Law Publishing Qualifications LLB (Hons) (UQ, 1997) BSc (UQ, 1997) LLM (Environmental Law) (QUT, 2000) PhD (QUT, 2007) Professional affiliations Background Research Interests Evaluation of the effectiveness of environmental regulation Climate change and greenhouse gas accounting Vegetation management laws and policies Research Students Associate Supervision Kirsty Chessher-Brown Christopher Robertson Christopher Sanderson Selected publications Website: Environmental Law Publishing McGrath C, "Shenhua mine: the federal government could have chosen farming over coal" (The Conversation, 15 June 2015)
