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Autor/in | Johnson, Louise |
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Titel | Zoomed -- A Personal Reflection on the Long, Slow Destruction of Australia's University System |
Quelle | In: Australian Universities' Review, 64 (2022) 2, S.33-39 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0818-8068 |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Universities; Educational Practices; Educational Change; Retrenchment; Politics of Education; College Faculty; Teacher Dismissal; Commercialization; COVID-19; Pandemics; Neoliberalism; Corporations; Australia |
Abstract | After 40 years as a hardworking and productive academic, here I was on a Zoom call fronting two senior colleagues telling me I no longer appeared on the new 'organisational chart'. In short, I was being made redundant. It was no surprise really, as another 40,000 professional and academic staff were to suffer the same fate. And really by then I was over what university life had become: stressed, thankless, driven by meaningless metrics and bereft of social values. But how did we get to this and was COVID-19 but a ruse, a smokescreen for an acceleration of the processes of politicisation, corporatisation, marketisation and casualisation which had brought my beloved system to its knees. Here then is a personal/political reflection on what has occurred in Australian universities over the last few decades -- their long slow agonising destruction. (As Provided). |
Anmerkungen | National Tertiary Education Union. PO Box 1323, South Melbourne 3205, Australia. Tel: +61-3-92541910; Fax: +61-3-92541915; e-mail: editor@aur.org.au; Web site: https://www.nteu.au/ |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2024/1/01 |