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Budget 2014: Road to Ruin a Degree Shouldn’T Cost a Mortgage Advocate vol. 21 no. 2 • June 2014 • www.nteu.org.au • ISSN 1329-7295 Budget 2014: Road to ruin A degree shouldn’t cost a mortgage • The end of public higher education • Victoria’s policy & market failure • General Staff or Professional? • Budget winners and losers • UK: Debt & ‘cashpoint colleges’ • The house casual organising built • Shocker for Indigenous Australians • College owner’s access to top Libs • QUTE stands in solidarity • Effect on students & postgrads • Locking in fairness at Navitas • Fears for Thai academics • Scholarships trashed • Racial Discrimination Act changes • ... and much more. Advocate ISSN 1321-8476 NTEU National Office, PO Box 1323, Sth Melbourne VIC 3205 Published by National Tertiary Education Union ABN 38 579 396 344 1st floor, 120 Clarendon St, Sth Melbourne VIC Publisher Grahame McCulloch Editor Jeannie Rea phone (03) 9254 1910 fax (03) 9254 1915 Production Paul Clifton Editorial Assistance Anastasia Kotaidis email [email protected] Feedback, advertising and other enquiries: [email protected] Division Offices www.nteu.org.au/divisions Contents All text and images © NTEU 2014 unless otherwise stated. Branch Offices www.nteu.org.au/branches 2 No truth or justice in the American p. 9 p. 16 way Editorial, Jeannie Rea 3 Rough seas ahead Cover image: From the General Secretary NTEU members at the Bust the Budget UPDATE rally in Melbourne in May. Photo by Chris 4 Academic freedom under threat Clarke. from Defence Trade Controls Act Investor-State Dispute Settlement review 5 Coalition to water down workplace gender equality legislation Civil/Courage at USC 6 Bargaining update 7 Bargaining State of Play 8 Bluestocking Week 2014: Crossing FEATURES 29 Will a PhD become a bridge too far? the Line Students will need to think very carefully about 16 Budget 2014: On the road to ruin whether a PhD is really worth it. 9 Locking in fairness at Navitas Australia is reeling from the first Abbott Budget, as our university system takes a body blow. 30 College owner gets amazing access 10 Votes lost, count won: the WA Senate New Matilda reports on the private college 17 The end of public higher education vote re-run owner and Liberal Party donor given access to Australia’s system of public higher education senior Liberal politicians. 11 QUTE stands in solidarity will come to an end if the Abbott Government gets its Budget through the Senate. 31 Science in the House UNICASUAL NEWS Members Sivakumar Alagumalai and Reyna 20 Winners and losers 12 Reaching out to contingent faculty Zipf report from Science meets Parliament. in the US The ‘budget burden’ is clearly unevenly spread. 32 CASA: the house that casualisation 13 Uni work becoming more precarious 21 Slicing and dicing too thin built This Budget serves to slice, dice and spread far Stories of US adjunct organising inspired the Survey of casual teaching online too thin Australia’s economic and social future. formation of CASA (Casual, Adjunct, Sessional staff and Allies in Australian Higher Education). INDIGENOUS NEWS 22 A degree shouldn’t cost a mortgage Join our campaign against the Budget. 34 General and/or professional – but 14 Aloha from WIPC:E 2014 24 Case study in policy & market failure definitely not ‘non-academic’ 15 18C and the ‘right to be bigots’ The deregulation of vocational education has What’s in a name? been an unmitigated failure in Victoria. COLUMNS 36 Hope within horror 26 Commonwealth scholarships Most Australians cannot comprehend the perse- 42 Net snares Budget bombs trashed cution that impels refugees to flee their homes. News from the Net, by Pat Wright The Budget trashes the Liberals’ legacy, and 37 Thai academics suffer in latest coup 43 McDonaldisation of higher education makes things worse for low-income students. Concern at academics and students detained Lowering the Boom, by Ian Lowe 27 Budget a shocker for Indigenous by the military junta. 44 Academic assholes and other jerks Australia 38 Student debt and cashpoint colleges Thesis Whisperer, Inger Mewburn Budget is even worse than imagined for Abo- The UK experience with higher education de- Environment riginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. ISO 14001 45 Kiwi tertiary staff working in fear regulation is a forewarning of Australia’s future. In accordance with Letter from NZ, Lesley Francey, TEU 28 Students question if uni is worth it 40 Recent human rights actions NTEU policy to NUS says students are fearful of lifetime debt. reduce our impact YOUR UNION on the natural envi- ronment, Advocate 46 Organising our Organisers p. 22 p. 38 is printed using vegetable based inks 47 Temporary incapacity and your with alcohol free superannuation printing initiatives on FSC certified pa- 48 Travel to Work insurance per under ISO 14001 Environmental 49 Carolyn Allport and Joan Hardy Certification. scholarships Advocate is available UniHealth insurance for members online as a PDF at nteu.org.au/advocate Vale Jim McAllister and an e-book at www.issuu.com/nteu 50 New NTEU staff NTEU members may opt for ‘soft delivery’ 51 New NTEU Shop (email notification NTEU Tax Guide 2014 of online copy rather than mailed printed Your annual tax statement version). Details at nteu.org.au/ Updating your NTEU membership softfdelivery details NTEU ADVOCATE • vol. 21 no. 2 • June 2014 • www.nteu.org.au/advocate • page 1 Editorial Jeannie Rea, National President No truth or justice in the American way If any one aspect of control because university planning is too The Abbott Government’s 20% funding important to be left solely to market forces.) cut forcing universities to increase fees at Minister for Education least 30% to cover the cuts plus a market Kemp and Norton still recommended interest rate on HELP debts will just price government handouts to private providers Pyne’s plans for Australian ordinary people out of university. The only arguing that there was some evidence options will be cut price and of dubious higher education sends that some students in preparatory courses quality that may or may not provide suffi- at private providers were doing quite well shivers down the collective cient education to get a job. when they went onto degree studies. They spines of university probably are, but what about the students Up until now, the policy trend in Austral- who enrolled, paid their money and did ia has been towards increasing access staff, students and Vice- not go on? The NTEU supports the exten- with equity. Pyne and his colleagues real Chancellors, it is his sion of Commonwealth Supported Places agenda is to close down equity in access (CSPs) to sub degrees in higher education to good higher education. They do want proclamation that the courses in public providers, which have a return to elite universities, which will the expertise and infrastructure to provide bestow a few scholarships to the bright United States higher students with a quality and well support- working class kids. ed education. education system is his US system failures inspiration. The gross education division by wealth in The gross education division the US system, along with sloppy regula- Not surprisingly, the prospect of the Amer- by wealth in the US system, tion and out of control student debt, does icanisation of our universities also horrifies along with sloppy regulation not make it a system to emulate. Indeed, the general public, as confirmed in the and out of control student the US is desperately trying to reign in the NTEU’s latest polling (see p. 22). People debt, does not make it a billions of dollars in loans and grants by know about the American system from system to emulate. proposing an audit of universities and col- popular culture. Just think about the many leges examining student fees, progression plot lines that draw upon the millstone rates and graduation outcomes, as it is of student loans hanging over young very clear that there are numerous private, (and not so young) professionals, tales The NTEU does not support the exten- including for-profit colleges just ripping of glorious but also terrible colleges, of sion of CSPs to private providers of degree off students and families. the scramble to get into a decent college, or sub-degree courses. The track record abuse of scholarship systems, of university According to Time (28/4/14), ‘far too much of private, including for-profit, providers of the money ends up going to sub-par collusion with big pharma and the military is at best niche and patchy, and at worse industrial complex, of persecution of dis- institutions with abysmal graduation wrecks students’ dreams. Australia has an rates that leave most of their students sident academics, rip off for-profit outfits, internationally envied, comprehensive, bankrupt colleges and so on. marooned with no degree or a worthless regulated higher education system, which degree, few job prospects and a load of Blinded by his idolatry of the market, has always been public, largely govern- student debt.’ Pyne blithely argues that we need greater ment funded, secular and co-educational. competition to improve the higher edu- Dismantling this system through blind In the US, the expansion of higher edu- cation system, so not only does he intend faith in market forces will leave students cation has not led to better wages and to deregulate the fees universities can and employers the losers. The contestabil- conditions for university staff. Rather, charge, but also hand over public money ity experiment in VET in Victoria has done three quarters of staff are now employed to subsidise private providers to give them enormous damage to people and their precariously (p. 32) and in the two year a boost to compete with public institu- livelihoods and should not be repeated community colleges and private for-profit tions.
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