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    Australia's casual approach to its academic teaching workforce

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    COATES, HAMISH; Dobson, Ian R.; GOEDEGEBUURE, LEO; Meek, Lynn
    Date
    2009
    Source Title
    People and Place
    Publisher
    Monash University
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Coates, Hamish; Dobson, Ian R.; Goedegebuure, Leo; Meek, Lynn
    Affiliation
    Melbourne Graduate School of Education, LH Martin Institute
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    Journal Article
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    Coates, H., Dobson, I. R., Goedegebuure, L., & Meek, L. (2009). Australia's casual approach to its academic teaching workforce. People and Place, 17(4), 47-54.
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/28917
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    Deposited with permission of the authors. © 2009 Hamish Coates, Ian R. Dobson, Leo Goedegebuure & Lynn Meek

    Abstract
    Australian academics’ response to the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) survey indicates that they are among the least satisfied academics in the world. This dissatisfaction has been expressed after two decades of rapid growth in the student body and structural changes in the academic workforce, particularly an expansion in the amount of teaching provided by casual staff. The growth in casual staff numbers is a factor which has simultaneously created a precariously employed but cheaper and more flexible workforce along with higher levels of stress among the full-time teachers responsible for managing and supervising casual teachers. The academic profession has an important role to play in creating a highly educated workforce for Australia and in generating export income by teaching international students. Careful attention needs to be paid to this situation especially in light of the need to replenish the ageing academic workforce.
    Keywords
    academic teaching; Australia; CAP survey; tertiary education

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