The University of Newcastle (UoN), located in the industrial city north of Sydney, recently released its 2020 Annual Report. The document points to how the governments and managements are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the corporate restructuring of higher education, accompanied by an unprecedented assault on jobs and conditions for staff and students.
The report states that in order for the university to keep afloat, due to the impact of the pandemic, we recognised that fundamental changes to our operating model would be needed to ensure our long-term financial sustainability.
The fundamental changes had the aim of reorientating courses to employer needs. That is, the university …
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