Hard Work on Hi-Q

May 2017 Re:Union

Queensland University of Technology

In this issue: Hard work on Hi-Q 1 Hard work on Hi-Q HiQ is the change 2 President’s Comments going on in many 2 Your 2017 QUT Enterprise offices, so far fairly Bargaining Team unseen. 3 Enterprise Bargaining Professional staff have 4 P-Plates on parade been hard at it, taking this administrative and 4 Showcase buildings - not all that service system through glitzy its ‘go live’ date, 29.4.17, 4 Trouble in Science and working towards full Engineering operation. 5-6 Academics’ Performance Many of the people ‘Framework’ affected have said 6 What kind of VC for QUT? that such events, automating 70% + of 7 The appointment process - how it student services other Construction on the new Hi-Q area in R Block at Kelvin Grove. works than teaching, may be becoming ‘HiQ’, or the ‘Student Gateway’ 7 Profile of a VC - who was Fred? inevitable, but the implementation put itself, now ‘QUT Students’. burdens on those being relied on to make The union Industrial Officer, Rob Rule, has it happen. urged people to keep their eye on work It started with some confusion over the diaries. re-naming, from QHub to HiQ, not so “If you are getting long hours over this, much announced as just mentioned, no ensure that you are getting full TOIL or Numbers add up reasons as yet. Some thought, something Overtime entitlements,” he said. New union like copyright? A quick check on line is always a good starting point if looking “We have also been talking with sign-ups management about how much they will have for a ‘marketable’ name, see http://www. copyright.org.au/ pay so-called Student Concierges, who covered the will be employed to help students with More seriously, one NTEU member who expected inquiries, as part of HiQ. losses after attended staff meetings and monitored last year’s the introduction stage, said the ‘human’ “The idea is to pay at HEW 3, like Student Voluntary Retirements. It adds up, side was a bad advertisement for Ambassadors, but we will need to see that more are now joining, given technology-driven change. if they end up doing work that involves initiative and outputs, taking it to a higher some adverse times at QUT … “It was terrible to hear someone saying level. To sign up friends, see the form they’d been crying because they had lost on back page. Apologies to new their job”, they said. “Members of the union, please be in touch staff; unlike other universities with any queries about how this is working “It can get cruel and shows disrespect for QUT bans union representation for you.” people.” at your Orientation events – but Member inquiries, contact the NTEU A lot of the work has been drudgery, like plenty of people are around to Branch office at QUT, 31385452. help us find you. the renaming of websites, ‘QUT Virtual’

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President’s Comments 2017 QUT Enterprise Bargaining Bizarre goings-on: know Enterprise • Additional payment for casual staff and can afford to pay. Time for a new including minimum payment per They have to deal with the federal it when you see it Bargaining agreement instance of employment of Professional government persisting with major staff to four hours. cuts to education spending included Team • Improved provisions to assess and Our members enjoy unprecedented. There is very broad on pay and in its disastrous 2014 Budget, still not measure Professional staff workload, to withdrawn. excellent terms support in this country for the public The meetings of members on 16 conditions at limit workload rises; assure consultative and conditions university system… Australians do not March 2017 endorsed the NTEU mechanisms on workload levels; ensure At the same time they operate their own hard-won over expect universities to act like ruthless Bargaining team for the Enterprise QUT access to paid overtime. budgets, and according to research carried many rounds of private corporations or building Agreement. Your representatives • Review of academic workload models out for the NTEU, they overwhelmingly run at a surplus. bargaining, as the developers, which is what is now are: Commencement of Enterprise to ensure all staff are able to complete NTEU often states. happening.” Bargaining is scheduled for the near all allocated work in the given time, That research shows that on 2015 figures, Now we see He also criticised the cutting of Australian Jeremy Davey, future, to set up agreements going and consolidate feed-back from staff the public universities recorded an management at public research funding, with 20% of Professor, CARRSQ through to 2020. on effectiveness of models; annual operating surplus of some $1.609-billion Western Australia’s science jobs in public agencies removed accident research audits of academic workloads; ensure – an operating margin of 5.6% of total QUT Branch President On the staff side, the NTEU has payment of overtime where actual income. That’s been fairly consistent, Lee Duffield Murdoch University since 2013 – getting like the United States. unit, Faculty of proposed the start of bargaining , and workloads excel agreed standards; except for the Global Financial Crisis year challenging that. Health. as at the last day of March university create additional Lecturer A positions to 2008. (The QUT figure was 3.5% in that They have applied to the Fair Work management advised it was ‘considering Commission to terminate the Collective Too much ideology distribute teaching workloads and ease survey). Taal Hampson, Team this information’. Agreement covering the university’s Such reactionary moves are linked to Cost of living Leader (Professional The union employees, and have lawyers promoting this financial ideology that is supposed continues as a Services), Oodgeroo wants wages some US style union-busting. to create wealth for all through business major worry for all Unit that will reflect competition, but has not been travelling wage earners, with members’ good well. It is struggling to deliver economic anxiety now about Stand-off productivity growth, which it depends on, against interest rates, and provide a Naturally the union is fighting this at the depletion of natural resources, or impacts pushing up home David Nielsen, Senior guarantee of Commission and in every available forum; of climate change. As huge inequalities of loans payments, Lecturer, Creative paying the bills. staff members have voted against a ‘final wealth are building up, wages are again together with Industries Faculty offer’ of a bare 3% pay rise over four years, under pressure, as with the 25% chopping It has other Members and union staff at training in March to prepare for the current round of bargaining. incipient inflation. and Vice President plus stripping of other benefits. If the of Sunday penalty rates this year. concerns that It’s notable that agreement were scrapped, employees will NTEU Branch came up in its How to read what’s going on – try the on 16 and 17.3.17, the NAB then Westpac have only minimal safety-net protections, (Academic) member survey late last year – like job dependence on Sessional employment. Raudonikis test. banks raised home loans without any leaving everything else entirely for security and problems with workloads. • On staff performance expectations, management to decide, like possible wage Facing all this, Planning and Performance Review national rise being put out by the Reserve Robert Rule, NTEU It is looking for more member feed-back cuts up to 40%. Redundancy packages, millions stay (PPR) to be based on reasonable and Bank. Other banks followed. Industrial Officer and support to promote a good outcome. parenting leave and protections on reasonable, join agreed criteria; and no Unsatisfactory Analysts saw that as being influenced by academic freedom could all go. the union, share The NTEU Branch Committee at QUT Performance processes where workloads prospective higher rates in America, which what they see with authorised a proposal on 3 March, and that allocations are exceeded. That episode fits in with other efforts might see Australian rates go to around friends; and to get went on to meetings of members on 16 • New provisions for Domestic Violence to turn back the clock on rights and 5.3% for houses; they calculated many your own, shrewd March, where it was approved – to be put leave. employee protection; like unsuccessful home buyers would be up for an extra idea of what is going on, try applying for forward as a Log of Claims. • More commitment by the university efforts at James Cook University last year $300 per month. Investment loans rose by yourself, the Tommy Raudonikis test. Glen Thomas, Senior to exceed targets for workforce to directly force a staff vote on a restrictive more and Westpac loaded a higher rate Lecturer, Creative participation by Aboriginal people and offer of pay and conditions; or certain That Rugby League ‘rough diamond’ raise onto “interest only” loans. Industries Faculty Claims put forward by the Torres Strait Islanders. senior executives of universities asking addressed a Brisbane rally against the last Already in January the finance industry and Acting Secretary NTEU • Fair process for the allocation of teaching conservative state governments to convert great attack on wages and conditions, was projecting a return to inflation; in NTEU Branch at the QUT International College. their governing Councils to paid boards the ill-fated ‘Work Choices’ 2007. He was The QUT staff members’ case is headed by money-talk, the ‘pause in inflation came to • Preserve all existing employment of directors – no more places for staff, next speaker after a lawyer critiquing the a claim for a 15% increase on all salary rates an end’ at the end of 2016. Rates of 1.5% conditions or rights. students or alumni. legislation, which got complicated here by 2020. are expected to get up to 3.8% in 2020 and there, and, while we generally like Sig Vogel, Senior In February, Labor’s Kim Carr, a former Other provisions: -- when the forthcoming QUT Enterprise to be genteel, it is interesting how Mr HR Officer, Faculty federal Education Minister criticised the • For all staff to receive the 17% employer Paying bills: what Agreement is expected to end. * Raudonikis followed up. of Science and West Australian move in the Australian superannuation contribution. Employees in Australia are looking for a Engineering and universities can pay, and Senate: “I don’t know much about those ideas • No false redundancies, and what you have to pay to live fair buffer against getting a hard hit from or about law,” he said. “But I do know s..t Vice President NTEU clear definitions when voluntary “In any workplace, such tactics would pressures like these, in the coming few when I see it.” Branch (Professional) retrenchment, or redundancies can be Universities in Australia are keeping their be regarded as hostile and aggressive. years. invoked, e.g. when the work in a position heads above water financially; they have *Trading Economics, 18.3.17. http://www. In the higher education sector they are Don’t we all?! tradingeconomics.com/australia/inflation-cpi/forecast/ is no longer to be done. obligations to their main asset, their staff, 4 Re:Union – May 2017 Re:Union – May 2017 5

P-Plates on Trouble in Science Academics’ Performance ‘Framework’ parade and Engineering Trust and respect? This time of year we get the full brunt Months of consultations by the Staff demands to see details of the of parking pressure on campus, and union with members in the Science proposed Academic Performance things have come to a head with the and Engineering Faculty (SEF), and Framework have resulted in more of it completion of new residential high- meetings of staff from across the being uncovered, but doing little to allay rises at Kelvin Grove, and the arrival of Schools, have produced a list of concerns about its integrity and actual new students. concerns there about the proposed usefulness. Is this at all respectful towards staff, and what is it doing to trust in the The campus design favouring buses, card holders makes it affordable, if still a QUT Academic Performance system at QUT? bikes and walking appeared to fall short significant cost, for many staff members Framework. on estimates of vehicle traffic that would and more well-heeled students. Researchers have given evidence of The Framework has three components, Teaching, Research, and Leadership- still turn up, what with actual growth of With the opening of the J Block facility distorted versions of the ‘proposed’ and-Engagement, and three assessment student numbers, and factors like new cars on top campus, can we hope for a further new Framework actually being used, processes: (1) use of extracts from student getting cheaper in terms of buying power. reduction, suitable to even more modest already, in a prejudicial way, in PPR. survey questions to judge teaching, (2) The answer has been pay car parks, at budgets? Several have received demands to The framework is a bit ‘rickety’, say staff members who have been giving it a hard look. an ‘expert’, ‘peer process’ for teaching both Gardens Point, and at Kelvin Grove, bring in inflated amounts of grant At present, getting a space for $10 a day is assessment, and (3) aggressive new such ought not to have arrived in current run a pilot and start the first reviews this where the new Sports Field Car Park (J money, or be classed ‘Unsatisfactory’, not bad but if you attend university most research assessment criteria, stressing PPR; the Leadership and Engagement year. As we understand it, applicants for Block) will include, on top, a promising and maybe, ultimately lose their jobs. days, that’s maybe $45 per week, between grant research money and high journal criterion had been extended in response promotion in 2018 must go through this mini sports stadium. Money-demands have been made $1200 and $2000 p.a. depending if you are ratings. The Framework is clearly linked to to staff demand, to include community review process. The group has 14 women, retrospective to review periods not Readers of Re:Union will recall that over student or staff. future Performance Planning and Review engagements (a possible return to 10 men; 13 Professors or ASPROS; 20 with yet expired, the researcher told to time, the union has had a hand in getting (PPR), workloads, and promotion or excellent practices pushed out of the PhDs (8 from QUT); most appear to have Without a large non-university market make up a few years’ ‘lost time’, something done about the traffic. It was a dismissal. former ‘Service’ category; and work had had over ten years at QUT. Contact the immediately next door, like the facilities and get grants in the remaining long campaign. started on the peer review process for union office for the names of appointees in at GP, would a good loyalty program at KG part-year. Sourcing of money has In Teaching the first assessment comprises teaching. your Faculty, 31385452. The catch is, the paying part: you can get soak up all those P Plates and other day- been restricted, e.g. a large overseas one question each from two student some form of parking now, if you can long parkers? scholarship for a doctoral student questionnaires – SPOT and Insight. (Staff Peer Reviews scheme Board of examiners? afford it. Maybe everybody can be happy. has been disallowed -- ARC-LIEF across the Faculties have pointed out Can the second assessment process, the This peer review, as exposed, looks like an The system of concessional rates for QUT (Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment repeatedly these simplistic numbers Peer Reviews, replace the first one, the examination process, not an interactive and Facilities) also excluded. cannot measure teaching competence). misuse of student survey questions? or formative review like the original Applicants say obtaining any kind The Research requirement is being the ‘Cube’ (picture), out of the public PPR. Management representatives have of grant means meeting highly shredded by specialist researchers on Early drafts of the Performance Framework Showcase view actually has very ordinary staff recognised the ‘peer’ process is not competitive funding requirements, staff, investigating the parts, for example: talked of a peer review taking after the UK accommodation – ‘open plan’; various collegiate; no calling of nominations and so should be counted in upping of the requirement for journal Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF), buildings – not other new facilities are going that way. nor consultation on appointments. The ‘Performance’. from their Higher Education Academy ratings to Q1, against examples of credentialing standard for reviewers on The ‘open plan’ idea is one whose time (HEA). That went back to efforts under Tony all that glitzy A delegation took these objections inconsistent applicability of that across qualifications or experience is unclear. came and went years ago; cheap but Blair and ‘New Labour’ to gee-up teaching to the Executive Dean on 3.4.17, disciplines and situations, and imposition Management have given a few indications Staff feel entitled to work in a place that negative for staff welfare and general practice and training in universities. with further meetings, and further of high dollar figures for research grants, on appointment criteria: they wanted is dry and safe, efficiency of the British academics were signed up en consultations among staff, set to as an essential component. Other key an ‘expert’ panel, with teaching and not so noisy you company, or masse as HEA ‘Fellows’, 55 000 this year (at follow. indicators like book publishing are learning recognition. Apart from academic can’t concentrate, university. Keeping different levels reflecting achievement or dropped; uncertainty rules about Higher credentials, the first group of 24 have and not a constant a check on this will With the exclusion of other yardsticks positions in educational management). Degree Research supervisions belonging various awards, some independent, some challenge to your include measuring of research proficiency, imagine the The NTEU had asked if an adaptation of the in research. The Research regime has struck from management. It is in-house, no sign privacy. up various spaces, degree of feeling. With the overall UKPSF, since it was being flagged, might at the highly productive Science and of independent, outside reviewers. against a national Framework, not only the putsch on replace the use of the two questions from Water getting into Engineering Faculty, where members have standard. Research requirements, but the use student surveys. The UK model has clear Initial concerns among staff: This puts some of the new identified maladroit, premature attempts of a few questions from student standards recognising Areas of Activity, some pressure on the reviewers, to some QUT locations, see F The NTEU at QUT to start using the Framework in PPR -- see surveys, and the peer examiners Core Knowledge and Professional Values of degree non-managers doing management Block at Kelvin Grove or Z9, bears witness has said often that open plan, as currently separate report. system, have received some critical, academics. work. Implementation time is tight, raising to the wondering about how come so rolled out, will never be accepted. It and expert reviewing by members. Implementing the Academic workload issues for the reviewers, and many new buildings in Australia are supports accommodation appropriate Then, QUT’s Peer Reviews plan was At NTEU staff meetings in March, Performance Framework issues about the quality and amount turning out not-so-good. to efficient conduct of work, such as brought out for exposure, in lieu of the Framework idea was declared of training they get. Questions have contemporary, architect-designed Union representatives have told consultation, at supplementary sessions Nation-wide it’s become fairly usual to ‘unscientific’ by scientists, without been raised, based on the initial training small group or individual offices. It management that individuals are held after the Vice Chancellor talks to staff see construction over-runs, legal disputes, dissent. A floor proposal said the materials, about whether each review of a will continue proposing consultations concerned that changes imposed in their in February. It announced the appointment discoveries well into construction of ‘whole thing should be scrapped, and staff member will receive enough time to with management to end large group working life are ‘arbitrary and make no of 24 staff members as reviewers of other hazards on site. a new evaluation system designed’ – be thorough, especially with hundreds enclosures for Professional and Academic sense’. They were advised of concessions: staff, and a working-up process (called by persons fully equipped to do it. A showcase like the SEF building and staff. it was said the Framework criteria as ExPREP) where they would receive training, (continued on page 6) 6 Re:Union – May 2017 Re:Union – May 2017 7

(continued from page 5) makes it plain, these VC Appointment being done. There are mixed views, are not corporations including within the panel itself, about under the Companies reviewees not being guaranteed an Act, but appropriately The appointment process - how it works set up as a form of assessor from within their own Discipline. Choice of a Vice Chancellor is the direct the predecessor Queensland Institute of not be delegated [emphasis in original Some panel members have said they body corporate. Some prospective responsibility of the governing body, Technology (QIT), for 12 years, then Peter document]. hope that by doing this job, they can the QUT Council, under the QUT Act Coaldrake for over 14 years. help compensate for, or even displace Barons might be MOPP A/3.4, states that the Chancellor’s arrogant enough to of Queensland Parliament. While it The Chancellor announced, in an all-staff Committee recommends to Council the the discredited idea of using two survey deliberates, the question is talked questions. have a go anyway. memorandum 8.9.14, Prof Coaldrake had process (including appropriate time So, all corporate about far and wide. agreed to accept a new contract as Vice frames) for selection and appointment of Five-point ratings – no scholarship; The appointment is to be by the Council, Chancellor, through to December 2017. the Vice Chancellor. Concerns get deeper over the use of set to decimate which delegates the management of This was added to an earlier extension that The Chancellor’s Committee is the ‘metrics’, with a five-point rating scale, the Academic and much of the process, to a standing body, had been set to end in 2015. Terms of the Chancellor, current Vice Chancellor, Chancellery building - QUT Gardens Point possibly with direct application to Professional staff for the Chancellor’s Committee. In 2017 the agreement had been settled in August: no Deputy Chancellor (initially appointed short-term economies; outgoing Vice Chancellor, Peter Coaldrake, further extensions; the ‘VC should guide Unsatisfactory Performance procedures, As a modest contribution to the discussion as DC from among members of Council), trash corporate and discipline memory; a member of the Chancellor’s Committee, succession planning for the position of VC’; maybe this year. The rationale and now, can I review some of the options and two external members of Council betray academic freedoms? Among has a ‘guiding’ role in succession planning. the VC should be encouraged to undertake significance standard of the scale, being talked about, after a straw poll both appointed by the Council. Half of very competent corporate types, you a short sabbatical at some stage; finishing and other criteria mentioned in the asking: what kind of VC do you want and That committee, under the 22 member Council are from different can strike a really bad one; dread the date would be 31.12.17. documentation, need explanation. Will this what will we get? the QUT regulations, sectors within QUT; half are external, from be at the same standard as the European day when a great university becomes is chaired by the Appointing a new Vice Chancellor is set business, educational, cultural or other model (the UKPSF) it is copying? For In-house candidates the personification of some driven Chancellor (present out in the university’s Manual of Policies institutions. instance will academics have the same ‘entrepreneurial’ type -- the Trump model. QUT itself has five Deputy Vice Chancellors incumbent Tim Fairfax, and Procedures (MOPP). MOPP B/ 4.2.2 Selection Panels. For scope to make their case; and does it cover and two are seen to be holding the The Vice Chancellor Model picture) and does key MOPP A, 1.1 Council Charter, 1:3: The first the VC position, the Chancellor’s the same range of criteria? The definition requisite combination of academic decision-making, e.g. in Consider here the conventional profile of responsibility listed for the QUT Council Committee (A/3.4) recommends to and standards of evidence will need credentials and aptitude for university the appointment of new a senior and accomplished academic with under legislation is appointing the Vice QUT Council the process (including expert examination by our academic staff management, plus corporate knowledge members of the actual Council. The roles demonstrated management expertise Chancellor and monitoring his or her appropriate timeframes) for the members. of QUT. It might indicate a denigrated of both Chancellor and Vice Chancellor are and talent for governance. The key factor performance. selection and appointment -- including status for academics, and learning, that distinctly described. The QUT Governance is an idea: that the work of intellectual MOPP Appendix 3, concerns delegation recommendation for the composition of deservedly or not, none of the six Executive Framework avers that the Council has production, what universities must do, of the Council’s powers under the QUT the selection committee. Deans has as yet been mentioned. processes for separation of Chancellor VC Appointment is understood by a leader in intellectual and Vice-Chancellor roles, (MOPP A/1.1.4; Act. There are wholesale delegations It sounds highly formal, but the job, of production. Such an appointment could Candidates from the VC A/1.1.8). especially to the Chancellor’s Committee Chief Executive Officer, is important; industry modernise collegiate processes, while (see MOPP Appendix 2, and MOPP A/3.4). QUT has over 47 000 students, revenues What kind maintaining the conventional argument Finding the right applicant will be new Recent decades have seen an echelon of However the schedule under Appendix 3, approaching $1- billion, and current salary for ‘good’ conservatism: you should not for QUT, having had just two long-serving senior university managers working to be Governance, confirms (Reference C019) in the top job exceeds $1-million p.a.; throw out what’s good while looking for Vice Chancellors since its inauguration in of VC for CEOs. Those moving to impress as VCs in the Council appoints a Vice Chancellor warranting best practice. a revolution. For an example I studied 1990: Dennis Gibson extending his time at small universities, mainly in regions, then (QUT Act ss32(2) and (3)), and this may Sir Fred Schonell’s nine years as Vice aspire to move up. This career channel, QUT? Chancellor of UQ, then the state’s only with $1-million-plus salaries as a goal, A Professor at UQ, he Still an academic he wrote a book university – see the accompanying profile. Profile of a VC provides an incentive to set aside any became its first full- about studying at university level and Lee Duffield says filling the job of Vice scholarly career fairly early. Not all in The Future Model Who was time, salaried VC, to do conducted a six-year study of student Chancellor, CEO of a large university like the echelon are ‘neo-liberal’ but it has its ground-breaking work experience. Changes included starting QUT is a major interest for everybody. This is named in recognition that we are share, extra ‘corporate minded’. You might in a time when knowledge must rule, so Fred? from 1960 to 1969, the counselling service and initial Over four years as a staff member on look out for proliferating KPIs, budget during the sixties and ‘teacher’ training for academics. He is that humankind and Planet Earth can Sir Fred Schonell did commanding the QUT Council, he was able to study slashing, cutting back staff, snuggling up seventies bursting-out credited with extending courses in ‘real survive and thrive. Australians have wisely academic work and as the ‘CEO’ of university ‘governance’ – the politics and to ‘industry’, chopping out curiosity-driven of education. world’ directions with programs like invested in universities as repositories Queensland University made great management of higher education. research. No surprise, some are already Asian studies, social work and speech and generators of knowledge, to deliver changes. Any down-players might say universities This is a time for the university community not-too-well-thought-of by staff. what is excellent and original, not some were small then but that is the message: therapy. From Western Australian, born in 1900, to put together its many resources in an drive to ‘beat’ the G of 8, or serve ‘industry’ it was management for massive change. As the change manager during a Barons of Commerce his academic discipline was Education. open discussion about how universities are more devotedly. If QUT aspires to become Enrolments had doubled and would re- turbulent time, including the upsurge of If universities should be corporations He produced a diverse research portfolio meant to be and persons suitable to run a leader in research, and teaching, we double in his term to 15000 -- moving student radicalism, he reportedly said like any others you can imagine a CEO in teaching and learning, (sometimes them. should look for, say, a Nobel Laureate, an from cottage industry to big institution. he thought students no longer liked from outside coming in to make it the with his wife Eleanor), concentrating on I hope and trust that when a short-list of actual leader in knowledge and thought The first administrative hub was built, him, but generally they did. Several same as a company. The catch is that remedial education. Highly influential candidates emerges we might see one of -- respected by all within the university the JD Story Building. Astoundingly for institutions including the student Union universities make knowledge, different in his discipline, internationally, before those great collegiate events, a colloquium community. then, parking became a problem; they named places in his memory. to ordinary goods and services, getting starting as Vice Chancellor, he edited where these senior academic figures can engaged an American firm to make a (Thanks to Australian Dictionary of Biography more-so with the growing complexities Count on one thing: any new Vice and co-wrote the Dick and Dora present their claims to the university as a traffic plan. and other sources including contemporaries of VC of knowledge. The universities legislation Chancellor will bring a lot of change. children’s books. Schonell.) whole. 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