You'll get full access to our website, print and digital editions. Agreeing to let even a small number of students on campus in these conditions is nothing short of criminal. Its recovery plan is looking to save up to $250 million in preparation next year. Professor Neil Quigley will offer voluntary redundancies at Waikato University in 2021. The university would also cut down senior executive remuneration by more than 25% from pre-Covid levels Like its peers in Australia, La Trobe has relied heavily on revenue generated through incoming international students, but with fewer students arriving in Australia, the institution has had to resort to job cuts, with the redundancies running . As a result, its let go of a “significant” number of casual staff but is yet to finalise redundancy numbers that are expected to be high. Deakin University vice-chancellor Iain Martin told staff "it will be impossible to avoid redundancies" as they face an $80 million to $110 million revenue drop this year, predicted to blow out to . The government will review plans for the return of all other students by the end of the Easter holidays. The Australian National University, however, has been commended for reducing workload for staff working at home, providing extra paid leave, and extending this support to, as well as the contracts of, casual staff. Jo Grady, general secretary at the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU), said postponing redundancies to a later date simply meant staff were now working “with an axe over their head” in the midst of a global crisis and that UK universities had taken a “scattergun approach” to how they treat staff. Found insideIn response to a request from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a standing committee ... The university is allowing only permanent higher education lecturers the option of relocating to the North East. Foot Anstey and Royds Withy King are the latest firms to confirm the measure. Face coverings by themselves are not enough to prevent the spread of COVID-19. #4 Submitted by anusarinlowe on April 23, 2020 - 4:01pm. Supporters were urged to post an image or a video with a protest sign and tag it with #SaveGoldsmith. This book exposes the true motives behind the government's program and provides the analytical tools to fight it. Whether COVID-related losses put a given institution at risk of insolvency largely depends on its profitability and its balance sheet position before the crisis, rather than on its predicted losses from COVID-19. This poses the urgent necessity for a unified national struggle by university . UCU Chester says the proposals are "completely unacceptable" after staff have spent the year working tirelessly to support students throughout the Covid-19 . Jo Grady, the General Secretary of the UCUC, said of the raft of planned job losses: “it is absolutely contemptible for some universities to exploit the pandemic by threatening to make staff redundant”. Found inside – Page 222The purpose of this article is to investigate the collective and individual activities of Russian universities during the COVID-19 pandemic aimed at ... The University of Canterbury spent $5m on redundancies last year, $4m more than in 2019. While the University of Sydney has been reluctant to release numbers, Business Insider Australia understands that like UTS its revenue shortfall runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Redundancy announcements have sparked opposition from further and higher education staff. Victoria University is seeking 100 redundancies and slashed 104 casual positions, but has not yet released full figures. We here share the text of yesterday's open letter to management at the University of Chester regarding proposed redundancies. cuts create 4 key risks. Swinburne has received 200 voluntary redundancies and made significant cuts to its causal workforce. Current redundancy due to COVID-19. . It shows that many, such as the University of Wollongong and Charles Darwin University, have provided little or no assurances for secure or fixed-term staff. The Australian National University, however, has been commended for reducing workload for staff working at home, providing extra paid leave, and extending this support to, as well as the contracts of, casual staff.. Workers at the University of Brighton are set to begin a week-long strike over IT staff redundancies with an online picket line on Monday, when the second semester begins. Found inside – Page 172Staff redundancies are announced at a number of United Kingdom and North American Universities and Universities in Europe are planning to be almost ... University administrations claim that job losses are required in order to remain financially sustainable and to deal with the fallout from the pandemic. There have been 66 redundancies made, with many taking place at the University’s English language centre for obvious reasons. Our top priority continues to be the health and safety of our staff and students and we are working hard to ensure you have the most up-to-date advice, guidance and support. Found insideEric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become. Hayot challenges scholars and students in the humanities to rethink and reconsider the work they do. While it’s difficult to ascertain exact figures, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has been tracking redundancies closely and puts the total number of job losses at more than 11,100 so far, but suspects the reality is far worse. […] Source: iStock. Where they were able to work from home, Sheffield said their work and pay would continue. The COVID-19 pandemic is causing serious financial problems for UK universities. In fact this was solely an initiative by heads of school in the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). Found inside – Page 45... of forms of teaching and learning caused by Covid 19 except on a local level. ... Also, with the likelihood of university redundancies due to financial ... By Conor Marlborough Wednesday, 23rd September 2020, 10:27 am (Jeff Greenberg, Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Education University of Sunderland facing loss of up to £26 million as a result of coronavirus crisis as voluntary redundancy scheme set up University of Sunderland bosses have announced drastic . Join the fight to defend public education! Found inside9 Covid-19: Record traffic around Paris as second French lockdown begins. BBC News, 30 October 2020. ... Stanford University, 29 June 2020. The University of Melbourne has provided an update on its plan to combat an almost $1 billion revenue shortfall as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Found insideAdditionally, quality assurance systems and university policies have lagged behind the contemporary challenges that Covid-19 has placed on ... Every three years, The Harriet Lane Handbook is carefully updated by residents, edited by chief residents, and reviewed by expert faculty at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The campus opened just six years ago, with the university promising that staff recruited to work there would be part of a permanent workforce. Feel exhausted and overloaded. No unsafe return to schools! Last autumn, the Tories recklessly reopened further and higher education, leading to at least 65,000 students and 8,000 staff being infected with coronavirus. The need for better government support was echoed widely by higher education unions. In total, Monash is expected to cut 754 jobs. The relief bill passed by Congress will not be enough. Public universities are not yet at the end of their fiscal years, and staff jobs are safe through to the end of the academic year, but few are making promises about the 2020-21 academic year, and many have put a freeze on salaries and searches, Professor Brint said. The university, which specialises in the study of agriculture, horticulture and life sciences, will initially ask for voluntary redundancies. . #6 Submitted by Dr Dread on April 24, 2020 - 3:21pm. Management refused to offer even this concession. The UCU noted, “Overall, the offer amounts to an annual pay rise of just 1.2% over a nine-year period and a real terms pay cut.” The union has declared a dispute with the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy, claiming that colleges cannot pay staff more unless Stormont increases funding. There are more than 100 full-time positions on the chopping board at one of the country’s largest regional universities although CSU hasn’t disclosed which positions are at risk. At AUT, domestic fees increased about $3.4m while international fees fell by about $4m and trading income fell $7m. At AUT, domestic fees increased about $3.4m while international fees fell by about $4m and trading income fell $7m. This was exemplified by Newcastle University, which received praise for announcing the introduction of a four-day week, without lowering salary, to help ease pressure on staff, particularly those looking after children. It is only due to the UCU’s collaboration with university and college management that these attacks are able to be enforced. window.adTech.googletag.display( [ 'ad-slot_1_2_mrec-mobile' ] ); Despite this, the reductions in staff numbers achieved through restructures were not sustained (Figure 4). At the University of Leicester 60 jobs are being cut, with 47 jobs being cut at the University of Liverpool and 34 jobs at the University of Dundee. Imperial College London has told staff it expects to make 75 staff in the ICT department redundant, with coronavirus researchers warning the move could harm their work.. Found insideThis 2001 book studies the organisational systems and culture of Australia's universities. While those arrangements are still being finalised, it has indicated 250 or more staff could be departing. However, the picture is not so rosy across the whole sector. This includes making sure that they are informed about confirmed cases of Covid-19 at the University. Found inside – Page xiiIt is important to acknowledge that we finished this book as the Covid-19 global ... with university buildings shutting down, redundancies threatened, ... Second wave of university job cuts coming next year. 2020 - present Director of COVID--19 Policy Responce Lab, Binghamton University. The University of East London has cut academics 'at the top of their game', critics say, including its only practising film-maker, and a leading expert on racial capitalism. The fractured picture is similar across the globe. Furthermore, senior managers continue to ignore letters signed by dozens of staff calling for a more humane and inclusive approach to university governance, while treating the UCU branch with contempt, even when challenged for violating UK health and safety law by excluding UCU representatives from the mysterious committees now running QMUL by fiat. As part of reopening the economy, even at the cost of thousands of lives, Boris Johnson’s Conservative government reopened colleges campuses to millions of students in England aged 16-18 years old from Monday. Filled with fascinating characters, dramatic storytelling, and cutting-edge science, this is an engrossing exploration of the secrets our brains keep from us—and how they are revealed. Row erupts over university's use of research metrics in job-cut decisions. University redundancies, furloughs and pay cuts might loom amid the pandemic, survey finds Academic administrators are mostly optimistic about the effects of COVID-19 on institutional finances . Found inside – Page 103One participant was clear that “COVID-19 is not an excuse, but it will delay our ... In October 2020, Australian and NZ universities announced redundancies, ... The university has since said anyone whose contract is due to end before the end of July will have their contracts extended until 31 July and this will “supersede any letter” they may have received. CQUniversity has announced forced redundancies for 99 staff to help meet a budget hole of more than 100m this year caused by the COVID-19 ban on international student arrivals. Lessons to inform post COVID-19 university professional services Baré, Beard and Tjia 5 $101.4m on redundancies of which $63.6m was spent on professional staff redundancies. The As universities face losing 1 in 10 staff, COVID-driven. This year, less than 40 slipped through. The UCU sanctioned the reopening, making only a few criticisms of safety precautions at several universities. Only then did they hold an actual strike ballot, held over January 6-January 20. There are 100 positions “likely” to be lost at Charles Darwin University but cuts have not yet confirmed. Goldsmiths University in London plans £6 million in cuts, which could result in as many as 120 job cuts. Everyone at Queen Mary is still required to take annual leave to manage their caring responsibilities and there has been no backtracking or compassion from management whatsoever. 34 academics at Macquarie University will be made redundant after a voluntary redundancy program failed to "fully mitigate the financial impact of COVID." The prospect of forced job losses was foreshadowed at the end of last year, with a briefing paper calling for $25 million of savings through academic redundancies. } ); While Perth’s largest university has not announced precise figures, it has revealed it plans on saving $30 million in voluntary or forced redundancies. The deal allows the university to progress with a number of dismissals already in progress and merely postpones the rest until 2022. On May 6, the Oxford University & College Union (UCU) called on the University to pause its redundancies and disciplinary procedures during the time of the pandemic. Covid redundancies will exceed anything seen in 'at least a generation', study suggests 14 Sep 2020 By Maggie Baska The number of redundancies planned in the UK will exceed anything seen in "at least a generation", according to a study that warns employers plan to make twice as many job cuts as they did at the height of the last recession. MORE than 800 religious leaders and academics have urged the University of Chester to halt an "unnecessary act of vandalism": its planned compulsory redundancies in its department of theology and religious studies (TRS).. A letter sent to the president of the university council, the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, the president of the Students' Union, and the Bishop and Dean of Chester . In Australia, the NTEU has called on its federal government to improve financial aid to the sector, while in the UK, the UCU has written to the Department for Education, calling on the government to underwrite funding and protect jobs. The university's vice . The proposals provoked widespread opposition in the form of street protests, occupations, and online campaigns. As the dust settles, Andrew McGettigan surveys the emerging brave new world of Higher Education. Staff began a strike on February 22 at the University of East London (UEL) in response to the sacking of four members of staff. Richard Taylor, sent a letter out to all staff, stating it was hoped the cuts could be limited to voluntary redundancies. Do you work at a university? "We have no current plans for redundancies as a result of Covid-19," he said. "The impact of COVID-19 . The strategy of reducing headcount to reduce organisational costs is familiar to many organisations. Just as aviation and tourism workers before them, university staff have become the collateral damage as institutions look to cut costs in response. On top of that, nearly 240 voluntary redundancies have been made, the equivalent of 160 full-time roles, while there are anywhere between 215 and 415 more positions expected to go. Advertisement. The university announced November 2 its intention to make 219 staff redundant. Print headline: Vast differences in treatment of staff, Already registered or a current subscriber? The picket garnered wide support from workers, reaching over two million people on social media. The University of Canterbury spent $5m on redundancies last year, $4m more than in 2019. How our jobs stole our lives and what we can do about it Found inside – Page viIn many respects, however, universities need a large degree of autonomy in ... the world was forced to face the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic caused by ... The institutions with the highest predicted losses all have large financial buffers and are therefore at little risk of insolvency. International students are responsible for more than 40% of the University’s annual revenue, or $470 million. In February, UCU members at Chichester College Group began balloting against plans by the institution to axe 10 full-time equivalent jobs in maths and English—40 percent of that entire department. Similarly, King’s College London has extended for a further three months the contracts of all staff whose contracts were due to end. To oppose the grave danger to their safety and that of students and to fight mass redundancies, university and college education workers, as well as students, must form rank-and-file committees, independent of the education unions. La Trobe University is expected to cut up to 300 jobs under a change plan to be released in mid-July, despite already accepting over 300 voluntary redundancies and significantly reducing their casual workforce since the beginning of the pandemic. While UTS haven’t finalised their numbers or implemented planned cuts, the union speculates there are as many as 600 full-time jobs that could be axed on top of an unknown number of fixed-term staff. As the global pandemic rumbles on, Australia’s higher education system is shedding its workforce at an alarming rate. Australian university managements last week announced thousands more redundancies, including forced retrenchments. UK universities step up jobs cull in collaboration with the trade unions, University and College Union moves to prevent strikes as COVID-19 cases surge on UK campuses, The University and College Union’s incredible disappearing pensions dispute, Explosive outbreak of COVID-19 at British universities, International Youth and Students for Social Equality. Found insideAs Science Fictions makes clear, the current system of research funding and publication not only fails to safeguard us from blunders but actively encourages bad science – with sometimes deadly consequences. The University of Cambridge, the UK's wealthiest university, has said it may have to resort to redundancies as a "last resort" in a "worst-case scenario' if the financial impact of the coronavirus cannot be mitigated.. Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the UK, many organisations, including William Hill, Centrica and Jaguar Land Rover, had already announced large scale redundancy plans. "Even so, La Trobe University in the post-COVID-19 world will not look the same as we do now, or as we did last year. Aaron Chang. At least 12 universities are planning redundancies. September 28, 2020 1.14am EDT. This includes providing them with two “revitalisation” days, which staff could use as they wish. Found insideHis work culminates in Healing Collective Trauma, a new perspective on trauma that addresses both its visible effects and its most hidden roots. Found insideThe Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19 Scott L Greer, Elizabeth King, Elize Massard da ... layoffs and redundancies, loans, fees, taxes, dividends, ... The higher education sector appears to be no different. In addition, and what the UCU was really after, the agreement provides for “disclosure of information to recognised trade unions in any future restructure or redundancy situation, including financial information”—thus ensuring that the union bureaucracy maintains its cosy relationship with management in order to be able to sell job losses and other cuts to its members more effectively. financial struggle leads La Trobe University to offering redundancies Vice-Chancellor Duncan Maskell said the University's current financial forecast for 2020 indicates a revenue shortfall of $177 million - an improved position from the expected $309 . The COVID-19 pandemic caused a sudden and very big decline in Australian . In a tweet by the Oxford UCU account, they announced: "Oxford UCU committee had asked Oxford University to pause all redundancies and disciplinary procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. International concern is growing over a UK university's "callous" and "unethical" plans to cut jobs among clinician scientists and researchers, including those doing key covid related work. The University and College Union has called on the management of the University of Leeds to stop 'voluntary' redundancies in departments working to tackle the Covid pandemic. She is the latest in a number of university leaders who have agreed to voluntary pay cuts due to the financial difficulties caused by Covid-19, which a recent report from UCU said could amount to losses of £2.7bn across the sector and 30,000 redundancies. Found inside – Page iOverview This is the second edition of the well-regarded local text, Employment Relations. It has also abandoned or made changes to more than 100 of its courses in an effort to cut costs. The University of Sydney is one of many Australian institutions letting go of casual staff and implementing redundancies during the pandemic. Another 472 lecturers in temporary positions are in danger as the university reportedly plans on not renewing their contracts. More Australian universities flag pay freezes and redundancies. “If some universities can take a compassionate approach, why can’t others?”. Charles Sturt University to axe jobs after suffering loss of $80 million due to COVID-19. La Trobe University vice-chancellor Professor John Dewar says the university will shed 250 to 300 full-time equivalent jobs Credit: AFR. Latest evidence suggests that lateral flow tests only pick up around 60 percent of positive cases, and in some settings even fewer. Vice-chancellor . ANU, one of the largest employers in Canberra, has cut around 465 staff, including 250 voluntary redundancies announced this week and an unknown number of casuals. Found insideThe volume offers concrete examples of interventions aimed to find innovative ways of sustainable work careers for today's workers. We focus on the school to work transition, job insecurity, job loss and re-employment and retirement. In the UK, the University of Sheffield has been praised for its handling of fixed-term staff, who faced being let go when their contracts ended. In the United States, colleges and universities have taken a variety of positions on staff redundancies and pay reductions in the wake of coronavirus. History and Presence is a thought-provoking, expertly arranged tour of precisely those abundant, excessive phenomena which scholars have historically found so difficult to think.” —Sonja Anderson, Reading Religion “With reference to ... That includes 277 redundancies, 238 fixed-term employees and 239 casuals. Still, in the early stages, there are around 200 pending redundancies pending at Murdoch University. “Part of the problem is that the whole area of casual employment is completely opaque,” NTEU spokesperson Michael Evans told Business Insider Australia. The Post-COVID-19 Response Programme, initiated in 2020, was aimed at: addressing the financial challenges we face. Found insideMore than a biography, Only Happiness Here is also a personal investigation into our perennial obsession with finding joy. window.adTech.cmd.push( function() { Our covid dashboard. window.adTech.cmd.push( function() { rethinking how we can make the most of our people, our spaces, our digital infrastructure, and our partnerships. The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee is leading this struggle and urges staff and students to contact us about establishing a fighting and democratic committee on your campus to defeat the attacks on jobs and safety. An unknown number of fixed employees have also been let go, with the full job loss figures expected to be much higher than the 712 known. The union dragged its feet for three months by calling a “consultative ballot”, held from November 26-December 6, for strike action. #5 Submitted by canalduck on April 23, 2020 - 5:37pm. Found inside – Page 120(LINK) IMPROVED TWEET: University reviews COVID-19 testing policy after students ... Look for ways to remove prepositional phrases, redundancies and other ... In 1857 all of the Arts students at the University of Sydney could fit into a single photograph. Found inside – Page 284As the European University Association (EUA) has argued, “The overall impact ... in Europe contemplating major redundancies, including of permanent staff, ... The union says it’s aware of nearly 2,500 casual job losses at Deakin. Events at Solent University reveal the role of the UCU as a reliable partner of management. This then is an approximation of how bad staff at universities have been affected already. Found insideWhile the media spins tales about superior products and designs, and the power of technological innovation, Galloway exposes the truth: none of these four are first movers technologically - they've either copied, stolen, or acquired their ... Pre-Covid, international education was a $5 billion industry. Found insideThe book highlights the potential for building resilient, adaptable, and sustainable systems so that we can be better prepared to respond to and recover from future crises. Redundancies are under way at the Queensland University of Technology in an attempt to save $38 million by the end of 2021 as part of its COVID-19 recovery. Coronavirus (COVID-19) We are actively responding to the evolving situation and updating regularly with latest guidance for applicants, students and staff. Found insideIn the hunt for a Covid-19 vaccine, there were widespread fears that ... In May 2019, students and academics delivered no-confidence votes in University of ... Our covid dashboard. The college also intends to make more cuts by reducing in-person teaching permanently. The university's vice . Melbourne Uni is another that has kept tight-lipped on exact numbers, but it’s understood that more than 260 casuals have been let go while 450 other jobs have been axed. If you test positive for COVID-19 or if you have any questions regarding the information on these pages, please email COVIDSafe@mq.edu.au. Critics say redundancies are being decided using unreliable measures related to funding and citations, highlighting . "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Business, New York, in 2017"--Title page verso. The COVID-19 Wage Subsidy August 2021 (Link 1) The Wage Subsidy August 2021 is a payment to support employers, so they can continue to pay employees and protect jobs for businesses affected by the move to Alert Level 4 on 17 August 2021. Redundancies are expected at the University of Leeds, Newcastle University, the University of Central Lancashire, and Solent University and the University of London. Found insideThis edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. This volume explores multiple dimensions of openness in ICT-enhanced education, presents a number of exemplary solutions in the area, involving the use of open source software, innovative technologies and methods, and examines potential ... However, shortly afterwards, staff on fixed-term contracts received redundancy notices. According to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 143,810 international students arrived in July 2019. UK universities and colleges are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to cut jobs and attack pay and conditions for teaching staff. Frank Giannelli, Rutgers University Dina Rosenberg, Higher School of Economics Bradley Skopyk, Binghamton University Julie VanDusky Allen, Boise State University Andrey Zhirnov, University of Exeter Research assistants: Dominic Bossey, dbossey1@binghamton.edu. By ending contacts the university is leaving them out in the cold." Meanwhile Bristol University has dismissed 84 staff on temporary and short-term contracts due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Redundancies and restructures are nothing new. The article is quite wrong about QMUL. The University has also announced it will cut 25% of management and consolidate its eight faculties into six. 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