- Title
- University staffing: Do we have the right blend?
- Creator
- Dobson, Ian
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/62323
- Identifier
- vital:5814
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780980856330
- Abstract
- The number of equivalent full time students at Australian universities doubled between 1990 and 2010. However, the number of teachers increased by only 44 per cent, and nearly 60 per cent of that growth comprised staff employed on short-term casual contracts. Casual teachers now represent a quarter of all academic teachers. In this paper, it is argued that the nature of change in the higher education system has created a situation in which the staffing blend is less than optimal. Too few resources go into funding permanent teaching posts, and too many resources must be used to administer an increasingly bureaucratic and layered system. This situation has arisen for a number of reasons, including fundamental changes to the structure of ‘work’ within universities. However, more than 20 years of under-funding, poor government policies in general and acquiescence by universities to those policies have exacerbated the situation.
- Publisher
- Adelaide, Australia Association for Tertiary Education Management
- Relation
- Tertiary Education and Management Conference 2012 p. 79-89
- Rights
- Unknown copyright
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- University staffing; University statistics; Academic staff; Professional staff; General staff; Non-academic staff
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