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Thursday, July 16, 2020

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Axe starts to fall on academic jobs as 500 go at UNSW

Title:
Axe starts to fall on academic jobs as 500 go at UNSW

Author:
Geoff Maslen

Published:
University World News, 16 July 2020
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200716132151775

From the article:
* The first large-scale slashing of university staff numbers has begun at Australia’s largest university. The University of New South Wales (UNSW) informed its workforce on 15 July that nearly 500 full-time positions would disappear because of a AU$370 million (US$259 million) budget shortfall.

* The National Tertiary Education Union attacked the government for not extending its ‘JobKeeper’ scheme to the university sector so that staff would not be laid off.