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Territory FM (Darwin)Territory Talk - 16/04/2012 10:42 AMDaryl Manzie

Interview with Andrew Taylor, Senior Research Fellow with Charles DarwinUniversity's Northern Institute, on how the Inpex project will lead to a swing inthe gender imbalance, leading to a more male dominated NT. Taylor says it'sobvious when you have a big construction process like Inpex, and the arrivalof marines, most of the workers that arrive will be males. He says modellingsuggests that 90% of the jobs for the Inpex construction will be fuelled bymales. Manzie notes that it does change the social fabric, with alcoholbecoming a more important part of social activity. Taylor says research fromthe US in the 1970s indicates they'll be a rise in anti-social behaviour. Hesays male dominated populations tend to save less money, which in turnsdetracts women from staying. Manzie notes there was a lot of work in the80's and 90's to balance the community and attract families, and he says it'sall changed again. He observes Government needs to play a part in gettingfamilies involved in NT life. Taylor says we need to start looking at that, andneed to look at avoiding having gaps between the haves and have-nots inthe community. Manzie notes that there's the risk that the income disparitieswill become great enough that teachers, nurses, and public servants becomesecond class citizens.

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UC defends decisionto pass failing studentsBy Emma MacdonaldEducation Editor

The University of Canberra is inves-tigating a case in which a lecturertold a tutor not to fail two Chinesestudents studying journalism.

For the second week running, thebeleaguered journalism course atthe UC has come under the spot-light. Last week the universitydefended itself against claims inves-tigative journalism students wereasked to withdraw Freedom ofInformation requests into cuts tojournalism teaching and theBrumbies sponsorship deal.

Yesterday UC defended itselfagainst claims journalism lecturerand former Canberra Times editorCrispin Hull chose to overlook thepoor English standards of two ex-change students from China in 2010and asked their tutor to pass themwhen she had failed their assign-ments. He said it was a special set ofcircumstances, as the students werepart of an exchange program andwere returning to practise journal-ism in China. Had they been nativeEnglish speakers practising in Aust-ralia. Mr Hull said he would fail

them. The university was now inves-tigating the claims, and issued astatement saying media reports ofthe incident yesterday had been"the first we have heard of thismatter and we are concerned aboutthese claims."

"We are looking into the matterso at this stage we are not in aposition to make any further com-ment. Our academic standards arehigh and are applied uniformlyacross all student cohorts across theuniversity."

The National Tertiary EducationUnion ACT division secretary Ste-phen Darwin said "firstly, the qual-ity of Australian education is criticaland any modifications to standardsto adjust to particular cultural dif-ferences must always be in thecontext of maintaining that qual-ity." While a lecturer "couldn'treasonably adjust for low quality inEnglish, they could recognise thatEnglish is a second language andassess the benefit of them takingback the skills they learn to theirhome country . .. It can be quite acomplex judgement."

Mr Hull did not return callsyesterday.

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Union saysuniversitywithholding

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The National Tertiary EducationUnion has accused AustralianNational University vice-chancellorIan Young of withholding this year'sannual report accounts as he tries tocut $40 million from the budget.

The deadline for the first round ofconsultation with staff over theirsuggestions on how to shed anestimated 150 staff positions andsome research functions ends onFriday.

Professor Young wrote to staffyesterday thanking them for theirresponses to date, and noted therehad been some "interesting sub-missions" already.

He asked staff to consider "Howcan we work and organise ourselvesmore efficiently? Do we need to doall the things we presently do? Howcan we ensure that we are allocatingresources to get the best academicand administrative outcomes?"

But in a response to ProfessorYoung's email, the union's ACTsecretary Stephen Darwin asked fordetails of the university financesand a full briefing on its investmentportfolio, superannuation liabilityand the effects of non-cash budgetclaims. "Moreover, I would appreci-ate in tandem with these briefings,

the simultaneous release of theactual financial data being con-sidered, and most notably access tothe currently embargoed annualreport accounts, so we may subjectthe very significant financial claimsmade by the university to our ownexpert scrutiny."

Mr Darwin said it was unaccept-able to proceed to any furtherconsultation stages before theunion had a chance to assess theuniversity's full financial statethrough the annual report.

"We simply cannot check theveracity of their financial claimsuntil we see that report." He saidthe data the union had been presen-ted with was speculation.

An ANU spokeswoman said yes-terday the annual report was withTertiary Education Minister ChrisEvans and the university was not atliberty to release it publicly until thesenator tabled it in Parliament.

But as that could take until mid-May, she said Professor Youngwould write to Senator Evans andrequest that it be made available tothe union as soon as possible.

The ANU's chief financial officerwould also be on hand during abriefing on Thursday in which

key elements of the budget wouldbe dissected with union officials.

In his email to staff, ProfessorYoung said he understood the deci-sions relating to cost-cutting wouldbe difficult. "But the aim is that wewill ultimately free up resources toinvest back into the university.These are the resources we need tocarry out research and teaching atthe highest level.

"Reluctantly, I have come to theconclusion that we are trying to dotoo many things with the resourceswe have available. I also believe weare entering a period where re-sources will be tight; governmentswill be focused on fiscal restraint,investment markets will remain vol-atile and long-term returns arelikely to be lower than in the past.Also, the high Australian dollar willmake international student growthchallenging."

Mr Darwin said the vice-chancellor's email was disappoint-ing in that he "failed to acknowl-edge, even in passing, the strongrejection by the ANU members ofthe union of the currently proposed're-positioning' strategy."

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Boarding schools are the answer to bush education's bluesYet another report on the problems facing Aboriginal children. BILL DEANE says it's time to get on with it

Theheadline was aspirational,

the facts were depressing, theconclusions were accurate. But

Jessica Brown's article ("Let's start toexpect greater outcomes", April 11,p11) and the paper from which it hasbeen extracted, will, like all thevolumes of books, reams ofjournalistic reporting, plenitude ofacademic papers and God knowshow many consultants' reports thathave gone before will make not theslightest difference to what passes forAboriginal children's education inremote communities.

As long as we have politicians, theiradvisers and public servants wholack the will, drive, courage andimagination to specify and carry outexactly what measures would benecessary to lift indigenous kids'aspirations beyond existence in thetoo often alcohol-soaked, vice-ridden squalor gormlessly toleratedby whites as "their culture", thengoodbye to using the potentialtalents of a race that once wassufficiently skilful to live in relativecomfort under conditions that havekilled white explorers.

The latest Gill ard governmenteffort to rectify educational problemsin the Northern Territory's remoteareas is the announcement that$583 million, spread over 10 years,will be allocated to pay wages for 200teachers, the building of up to 11teacher houses in remotecommunities, a nutrition programfor about 5000 students in 67 schoolsthat will employ 170 local Aborigines,and professional development forAboriginal teachers.

All are fine intentions, with onedrawback: school attendance inAboriginal communities is generallywoeful, despite punitive measuresdirected at parents that reducewelfare payments and can meaneven less of a breakfast than the MarsBar some Aboriginal children havebeen known to arrive at school within Canberra. So, in the spirit of theoriginal 2007 intervention,something exceptional and

innovative is called for, something toget the kids right away from thelargely toxic environment andculture that is condemning too manyof them to lives of aimless idleness.

The answer is a fast-trackedboarding school, one which willbecome the precursor of others. Andperhaps our prime minister couldfind it in her to rise above persuasivetalents that mostly revolve arounddroning impassioned platitudes anddreary truisms and start the ballrolling by channelling, after afashion, a well-known, now gone,American black leader.

"Ah hev a dream . . . Ah hev adream that one day soon, aprominent black person and aninfluential white person with accessto $853 million, together will boardan aircraft in the wonderful NorthernTerritory and fly around to choose asite for a tented boarding school. Andwhen they have found one, the whiteman will arrange the logistics forsetting it up, and the black man, aroving apostle and ambassador, willgo around all those places wherepoppa gets drunk, momma getsbashed, and every night littlechildren go to bed frightened.

"And the black man will tell theparents they won't be compelled tosend their children to the school, butif they want them to achieve morewith their lives than staying in thecommunity has to offer, they cansend them. And each school term willlast a year, and the government willpay for the parents to visit and stayfor a few days each term so they cansee the benefits that will result."

Sound familiar, apart from thecorny Martin Luther King shtick? Itwill be to American students ofmilitary history. In February 1942,

alarmed at the army's lack ofarmoured expertise necessary for thecoining campaign in North Africa,the United States DefenceDepartment instructed GeneralGeorge Patton to start a deserttraining centre somewhere. He flewover several states, chose a spot at a

railhead in the Mojave desert,arranged for tents to be dumped andin April the first tank crews begantheir exhausting training.

We presumably still have militaryor civilian intervention on theground. Surely one of them plus aprominent indigenous figure couldbe co-opted to do something similar,cutting through red tape andbureaucratic protocols that are theenemy of innovation and creativity toestablish the first of, hopefully,several worthwhile and lastingprojects.

If the security needs of NorthernTerritory children demandedmeasures as radical as the so-calledintervention, why shouldn't theireducational needs also be treated asan emergency and met with similarunorthodox methods? It's not as if awell-run school wouldn't find favourwith its chief beneficiaries. Thiswriter has bored witless hisUniversity of the Third Age "Issues,Ideas and Opinions" coursecolleagues with his reiterativeaccount of the school built by KingRanch Australia on their massive NTcattle property in 1961 that was sopopular with the 30 or so kids,compulsory attendees, of thestockmen and female staff that, comethe wet season, the end of musteringand family preparations for theannual collective walkabout, the kidsjacked up they preferred to stay atschool.

So let's get on with thepracticalities. Just find a large area ofbush several kilometres outsideDarwin, preferably on a river, dump apile of demountables and/or tents,and set up a boys' boarding school.Give the students school uniforms,hot showers, three square meals aday, stacks of football and othersports, regular trips to the nearestswimming hole the sort of activitiesboarding schools usually have. Eachgroup of 30 or so kids will have anelderly Ab original woman as a"house mother". Teachers and aides

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needn't arrive dripping withacademic or other educationqualifications, just displayenthusiasm and imaginationleavened with common sense. Firstteaching priority would be literacy,with reading taught phonetically.Once they have a clear grasp of thebasics and realise they can teachthemselves, in current argot they willbe "empowered" and other subjectswill be easier. By Jessica Brown'slights, they will have begun to havean idea of their own self-worth,stirring expectations and aspirationsthat didn't exist previously.

Staff should be a mix indigenousor whatever. If teachers or teachers'aides are hard to come by, there areenough grey nomads circling thecontinent, experienced and wantingto keep their neurones oiled, whoprobably wouldn't mind doing a

week or more voluntary work forboard and lodging in an interestingand progressive environmentcomprising dedicated enthusiasts.

The principal should be anAboriginal maverick thinker, a NoelPearson-type or Cherbourg's ChrisSarra, assisted by a mover-shakeradministrator with pull andexperienced in handling unusuallydifficult situations where rules haveto be improvised, minds have to besupple and dullard obstructionistbureaucrats have to be overcome, sayan Alan Stretton or a Peter Cosgrove.

Yes, it would work for girls too,who probably run more physical riskin remote communities than boys.Teaching would be in English, therest of the time students can speakwhatever language they wish.Naysaying innovation-phobicbureaucrats, hand-wringing so-

called indigenous leaders and whiteluvvies who encourage a sense ofblack victimhood, all of whose skillsare best confined to attendingconferences and reading theirstrategic papers, should be ignored.Consulting with locals must be keptto the basic minimum 40 years ofconsultation produced nothing up tothe intervention and not too muchsince, a shining exception being FredHollows.

In 2009, Professor Mick Dodsonpointed out that, a year after theapology, nothing had happened onthe indigenous education front and itwas about time something did. Solet's not dither for another threeyears and just get on with it.

Bill Deane has helped indigenousstudents with literacy problems.

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Read my lips: Rudd says we're failing on Asian languages

SPEECH THERAPY

Former prime minister Kevin Ruddsays Australia has dropped the ballon Asian languages.

In his first major speech sincequitting as foreign minister andlaunching an unsuccessful leader-ship challenge against Julia Gill ard inFebruary, the Mandarin-speakingbackbencher has returned to one ofhis pet areas Asian literacy.

Mr Rudd says Australia has to liftits game to reverse declining student

enrolments in Asian languages "if weare to secure our future in thiscentury of the Asia-Pacific".

He cited statistics showing adecline in schools teaching Chinese,Japanese and Indonesian andstudents pursuing Asian languages atuniversity over the past decade. "Weneed to get to the bottom of why thatis the case," Mr Rudd said in a speechat Melbourne University last night.

"I'm not remotely interested in thetraditional blame game of blamingone level of government or the other:state education bureaucracies or tea-

chers; academic institutions or thebusiness community."

Mr Rudd hailed the work of formerLabor prime ministers Gough Whit-lam, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating inengaging with Australia's Asianneighbours, but failed to mention thewoman who replaced him in the topjob, Ms Gillard. Mr Rudd lamentedthat while there were hundreds ofthousands of Asian students studyingin Australia, there were barely hund-reds of Australians at elite tertiaryinstitutions in Asia. AAP

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THE CHAIRMARCIA DEVLIN

Sessional teachers play a vital role in universitiesbut their contribution is often undervalued andsupport for their efforts and expertise minimal.SESSIONAL teachers are part andparcel of the growth of highereducation in Australia. Estimatedto make up an average of about25 per cent of the universityworkforce, they undertake anestimated 40 to 50 per cent of theteaching. But even these figuresmay underestimate thecontribution of casuals.

In a seminal 2008 RED Reportfunded by the Australian Learningand Teaching Council, twouniversities reported that 80 percent of their teaching wasundertaken by sessional staff. Asthe report noted, a number offactors including differences indata collection and reportingbetween universities made itdifficult to calculate the numberand proportion of casual staffworking in the system.

PhD students, industry,vocational and professionalspecialists, retirees and otherscontribute to this casual workforce.Whatever their exact number, thesestaff bring up-to-date research,knowledge and professionalexpertise not otherwise availableto the learning of hundreds ofthousands of students. But how dowe treat these casuals in responseto their significant contribution?

They have been described as theproletariat of the academicprofession" and likened to thedomestic servants of the Victorianera by one senior academic in theRED Report. He's not far wrong.With few exceptions, the sectortends to employ them at the lastminute, offer them pooraccommodation, and provide littleor no systematic induction,development or continuingsupport. It also excludes themfrom decision-making and cutsthem off immediately their formalemployment ends.

Money is often at the heart of

endemic issues in universities suchas this undervaluing of sessionalstaff. But the financial difficultiesuniversities are suffering seem anincreasingly lame excuse for poorpolicy and practice. The currentsituation is unacceptable, andwithout immediate attention it islikely to deteriorate further in afast-changing, demand-drivenenvironment, and start to seriouslyaffect quality.

While not unheard of,centralised, transparent and timelyemployment practices and supportfor sessional staff seem beyondmost universities. Many cannotgenerate a list of current sessionalstaff, never mind provide andmonitor their induction anddevelopment. The training andsupport for these staff is ad hocand largely left to individualchampions and chance.

Sessional staff are rarely invitedto departmental staff meetingsand if they are, they are usually notpaid to attend. Outstandingleadership in pockets of excellenceensures sessional staff areembraced as members of theuniversity teaching and learningteam, but for the most partsessional staff "wing it", largely ontheir own, semester after semester.

Professional development thatincorporates teaching and learningtheory; e-pedagogy skills; markingand moderation training and policyinformation and that assiststhem to build expertise anddevelop their careers is rare.Despite best intentions and somegood work, the sector's record hereis patchy at best.

As for sessional staffcontributing their expertise tocurriculum and coursedevelopment, very few universitieshave paid casual staff to enhancetheir offerings in this way.

At another level, recognition forthose who supervise and managethese small armies of sessionalstaff often in subjects withenrolments of well over 1000students across multiplecampuses and online is alsorare. Very junior academic staffoften undertake these leadershiproles. Sometimes, somewhatincredibly, sessional staffundertake these roles. This wouldseem to pose a significant risk foruniversities but somehow the issueis overlooked.

From the students' perspective,the employment arrangements ofteachers probably matter little.What matters to them is the qualityof the teaching. It's time to shoreup that quality and address therisks inherent in existing policy andpractices.

Marcia Devlin is professor of highereducation research at DeakinUniversity.

The financial difficultiesuniversities are sufferingseem an increasingly lameexcuse for poor practice.,

MARCIA DEVLIN, Deakin University

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Age, Melbourne17 Apr 2012

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When a casual affair turns sourA greater reliance on sessional staff iscausing concerns about exploitation andteaching quality, writes Gary Newman.

0 AN outsider, tinscould seem like agolden age for highereducation. Over thepast decade Australian

universities have drasticallyincreased research activitywhile teaching record numbersof students all with less gov-ernment funding than 20 yearsago.

Policymakers seem to havecreated the equivalent of amagic pudding: the moremoney you scoop away, themore universities produce. Butinside the institutions there istension as they give priority toresearch and increasingly leavethe teaching to casual staff.

As universities face toughdecisions to improve theirinternational rankings, it's thecasual teaching staff, and theirfirst or second year students,who are paying the price, sayconcerned academics.

Professor Frank Larkins, aformer deputy vice-chancellorat Melbourne University, saysuniversities rely on interna-tional students, and theirability to attract such studentsdepends on the university'sinternational ranking.

"Worldwide it is a realitythat standing tends to bemeasured by research perform-ance rather than teachingquality," he says.

Accordingly, universities arespending more on research tomaintain, or enhance, theirinternational prestige. Pro-fessor Larkins found thatuniversities spent $2.7 billionon research in 2008, which wasmostly drawn from studentfees and federal governmentHECS funding.

The priority given toresearch over teaching is alsoreflected in staffing trends, hesays. Between 2000 and 2010the number of specialistresearch staff employed at uni-versities increased by 78 percent, according to Department

of Education Employment andWorkplace Relations (DEEVVR)statistics. During the sameperiod, full-time equivalentteaching staff increased by 26per cent, despite student num-bers rising by 54 per cent.

"The effect has been thatthe student-to-staff ratios forcoursework students haveblown out quite significantly"says Professor Larkins.

Casual teachers are hired,particularly for undergraduateclasses, to deal with growingstudent numbers. Many havenot taught at universities andare astonished to find theyreceive little support, may beexpected to develop coursematerial and can face tutorialsof up to 30 students.

Their predicament has notgone unnoticed. Many aca-demics with tenured positionsrecognise that sessional staffare being exploited and havebecome an underclass withinuniversities. First- and second-year students also notice whentheir teacher is unavailableoutside limited hours and doesnot seem to understand uni-versity procedures.

Linda Rohrs is a committedteacher whose experience istypical of the army of casualsworking in universities. As acasual accountancy teacher atSwinbume University, sheearns $112 for her first tutorialand $75 for every repeattutorial. "It does sound verygood, doesn't it? But thatincludes the two hours prepar-ation for the first tutorial andan hour for each additionaltutorial," says Ms Rohrs.

This equates to $37 an hour,but what does she earn onceshe factors in unpaid overtime?

"I don't want to know," shelaughs grimly

Swinburne staff are recog-nised within university circlesfor the effort they put into for-ging relationships withstudents. The university has

been rated the highest forteaching quality by the GoodUniversities Guide for the pastsix years. But some staff believethis stellar record has beenmaintained by placing morepressure on workers.

Working conditions haveseriously deteriorated over thepast seven years, says MsRohrs. She likens it to "salamitactics" slice by slice more isadded to the responsibilities ofteaching staff, many of whomare casual. In the past shereceived administrative andteaching support, but she nowprepares all class materials.This, she says, is additional tothe many hours of unpaid stu-dent consultation.

"I teach a first year account-ing unit the vast majority [ofstudents] are straight out ofschool. It's pretty hard for themto get their heads around thefact that teachers aren't goingto do everything for them. Youneed to have this one-on-onetime in order to ease the trans-ition," says Ms Rohrs.

Swinburne's staff is mostlypermanent, with DEEVVR sta-tistics showing 16.4 per centare casual. This is in line withthe national average of 16.2 percent. But universities reportcasual staffing as "full-timeequivalent" (FTE), making itvirtually impossible to deter-mine the number ofindividuals employed.

Based on FTE data, thedepartment reported that in2010 there were 10,691 casualacademic staff in Australia. Butbased on superannuation data,Griffith University PhD studentRobyn May estimated thenumber of individual casualacademic staff was closer to67,000.

Last year, Ms May coordin-ated the largest survey ofAustralian casual universitystaff. Most respondents saidthey participated in universitymeetings on an unpaid basis.

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dependent on the unpaidof casual academic stall, saysMs May

"L'here has altvays beenYe alnoilnis ol unpaid work

s," says the Utversiry of e bourne's Dr

w-ho co-authored a recent study of theacademic workforce.

"Traditionally peoplehave cared because aca-demia was a vocation you'dwant to stay up at night study-tog yo or books 011(1 11 nil Igyour articles. Hut it'sactual work itself is more ike a

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canon Union (Nil-II)esttlnatesmore than half the leachingconducted in Australian uni-versities is dune by casuals.

"It's much cheaper for uni-versities to employ casual staffbecausehey only have to pay

rticular hour ofI eaclung and don't have 10 payfor a third or a half of the yearwhen they're stood down dur-ing the non-teaching periods,"says Ken McAlpine, a senior

NilU industrial officer.Many casual teachers are

industry experts brought in tooinich lead wig and learning

, a fact acknowledgedAl Pill e.

(10111 haveper se tvith smile casualemployment. But our estimateis that there are 8000 to 10,000people with Phi )s who are stilldoing casual leaching at uni-versities and thshockingly wasted

says Mr McAlpiiLess than a third

dennc staff believe theirworkload is manageable, whilen0 per coin of early career staffsaid they were dissatisfied withjoh Seillrily, according to DrIlexley's research.

"I think a lot of people arefrightened to talk ophe named," says Ms kolirs,IA110 at 52 feels she has lesslose than younger teachersseeking to lorge a career. "I liketo tNork, I don't have to lNork.So a fortunate positionwhere I can act wally say thingstvithout xvorrying about losingany work or any hotirs."

Not so for a young I tuorNIelhourne University,

who spoke to The flp, 00 0011-dition of anonymity.

1 here are hours and hours'd work every week.

don't pay you enoughdo and it's the

ffer," says thehe tutor, who teaches

writing Ill the arts faculty, saysclasses have heel] cut from twohours to 11/2 in 2012, meaningthe same amount of teachingmust occur ill less time.

It also means less money'tors are pi

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e is exacerbatere unpat out-

soliation, WIC toe ed tutorials.

a level of st talentanxiety 'v( before,"says the tutor. "I ant a lotol nine outside loll 1111not paid for.

"1111 really torn I call seestuff dim needs fixing anddvicc that needs giving. My

union is that I do that inilly own time because I feel it's

really unfair on the students ifI don't, hut this makes mereally resentful. I have spokento the [subject co-ordinatorlabout this btu I know [they're'oinsourced as well so [they'don't have any great leverage

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ity was not available

Larkins says theimbers of per-

manent teaching staff and anover-reliance on casuals is con-cerning. "Yes, the casuals cancome ill and help out, butthey're not the foundation oilwhich you build your (lualitydiscipline courses," he says."lhere just isn't the Investment

mttrsevvork education, asmanifested ill adequate levelsof contiluung staff."

Not everyone agreesgiving priority to researclhad idea. "I think that's acynic-al view," says UniversitiesAustralia chief executiveBelinda llobinson. "Wesliouldn't be ashamed of ther, -,ources lke lnt ill to research

\, ( (hat they're probahlyIco low. flit- only criticism hat

ould be deserved is that if itwas coming at the expense ofhigh quality teaching andlearning and I don't thinkhere's any evidence to suggest

that."lattle research has heen' toineasure the elfects of

casna hisation on teaching andsays Kell IVICAlnille.

$11 billion industry,you'd think the universities aspublic institutions tt ould heresearching these things andpublishing the results."

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Casual accountancy teacher Linda Rohrs says there are more student demands but less support.

Student-to-staff ratiosfor coursework studentshave blown out quitesignificantly./PROFESSOR FRANK

LARKINS

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