Australian unis could not function without casual staff: it is time to treat them as ‘real’ employees
University working life may conjure up images of professors with book-lined offices, built up over a decades-long career in the one institution. But the reality is precarity has become the norm in Australian higher education teaching and research. According to the Universities Accord discussion paper stakeholders have already raised concerns about insecure work and underpayment in the higher education sector, […]… Learn more.