Follow the leader

Reclaiming Australia’s innovation tradition

Featured in

Buy $27.99
  • Published 20220127
  • ISBN: 978-1-92221-65-8
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES ARE unsettled.

There is no doubt they are facing significant and real challenges. Many of their buildings have been shuttered on and off in the last year. They have fewer staff and students than they did before the pandemic. By some estimates, 20,000 jobs were lost in 2020; others put the number higher. If this had happened in any other sector, we might have expected more than a muted response from politicians. There is discontent and more than a little trauma within academic and professional staff ranks. Much of the university workforce is employed on short-term and casual contracts. Universities’ relationships with governments and the public appear fraught. These are far from halcyon days.

Already a subscriber? Sign in here

If you are an educator or student wishing to access content for study purposes please contact us at griffithreview@griffith.edu.au

Share article

Tweet
Share
Share
Pin
0 Shares

Subscribe to great writing

Access starts at just $6 per month. Print and digital options to suit every budget!

Learn more

About the author

Gwilym Croucher

Gwilym Croucher is a higher education analyst and researcher in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. A...

More from this edition

‘I will not be doing it again’

Memoir I’VE BEEN TEACHING at Australian universities for twenty-five years now. I began when I was twenty-seven – I’m now fifty-two. This means I’ve been...

Somewhere over the rainbow

GR OnlineThe sentiment of sharing the same boat is optimistic, but it glosses over the impact of inequalities in the amount of money and time spent on learning – such as those between rural and urban and between public and private schools – as well as the influence that parents’ levels of education have.

In case of education emergency…read this

GR OnlineIndigenous peoples have a right to self-determine their education, as outlined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. These rights recognise that systemic power has been taken away from Indigenous peoples due to the ongoing impacts of colonisation and that subsequent interactions with schools, education departments and universities occur within a power imbalance.

Stay up to date with the latest, news, articles and special offers from Griffith Review.