Building an inclusive post-COVID higher education sector
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Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Professor Iain Martin’s announcement on 25 May of 400 job losses launched the Major Workplace Change (MWC) consultation process now underway at the universitywide level at Deakin. However, this figure did not enumerate the casualised, sessional and fixed term staff – numbering around 2,500 according to Deakin staffing data – whose jobs were cut in Trimester 1 or those casualised and fixed term employees who have significantly less work or have not been engaged at all in Trimester 2 at Deakin. Dr Audrey Statham Deakin University
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Connect ® Volume 13, no. 2 ® Semester 2, 2020
