{"id":19161,"date":"2022-11-16T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T10:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=19161"},"modified":"2022-11-16T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T10:26:25","slug":"universities-accord-must-rebuild-higher-education-and-involve-staff-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/16\/universities-accord-must-rebuild-higher-education-and-involve-staff-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITIES ACCORD MUST REBUILD HIGHER EDUCATION AND INVOLVE STAFF AND STUDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the Universities Accord process,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/higher-education\/the-university-peak-body-will-embrace-new-higher-ed-reforms\/news-story\/b14aa069b3df0016f8da4a8920e7b751\"><u>expected to be announced later today<\/u><\/a>, must begin the task of rebuilding and reimagining our public universities, and involve staff and students at every step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter a decade of neglect, it\u2019s refreshing to see the government take the future of our universities seriously. But we have to get this right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t leave this task up to a few eminent people to run. Current staff and students should be brought into this process in a meaningful way from day one. Frankly, corporate voices should be deprioritised.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe review must really dig into university governance and democracy on our campuses. The corporate university model has been so damaging and corrosive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/greens.org.au\/campaigns\/uni-future\"><u>Greens analysis<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;has found that over the last two decades, there has been a 43 per cent reduction in the number of elected positions on university councils. We have to give power back to staff and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCasualisation and enormous workloads are completely unsustainable and crushing for university staff. The Accord process has to address this head-on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUltimately the government has to accept that a big boost to public funding \u2013 including to research funding \u2013 will be required to set our universities up for the long term. Universities are a public good and should be treated as such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Accord process should not be used as an excuse to delay changes that can and must be made now: scrapping Liberal-era fee hikes and funding cuts, and tackling the student debt crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the Universities Accord process,&nbsp;expected to be announced later today, must begin the task of rebuilding and reimagining our public universities, and involve staff and students at every step. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cAfter a decade of neglect, it\u2019s refreshing to see the government &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/16\/universities-accord-must-rebuild-higher-education-and-involve-staff-and-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UNIVERSITIES ACCORD MUST REBUILD HIGHER EDUCATION AND INVOLVE STAFF AND STUDENTS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19162,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions\/19162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}