Don’t get comfortable: the rise of the precarious academy

Not exactly on topic, but aside from the staff hired there is also the overall reduction in staff without any thought of the role of tertiary education as a public good rather than a corporate endeavour. If the elitism of the past was a problem the singular power of the present is sad if not dangerous. The ITP sector in NZ has exactly the same problem in terms of hiring practices and work expectations. Our tertiary system is becoming an unsafe workspace of alienated workers -at least below the professoriate. http://teu.ac.nz/2018/05/auckland-undermining-education/ http://teu.ac.nz/2018/07/talk-about-stuart-mccutcheon/ http://teu.ac.nz/2018/07/stuart-mccutcheon/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/104527548/Staff-cuts-cause-New-Zealand-universities-to-drop-down-world-rankings