Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Spokesperson for Tertiary Education, has responded to NTEU\u2019s report \u201cEnding bad governance for good.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Mehreen Faruqi:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe shocking extent and impacts of the \u2018corporate university\u2019 are laid bare by this report. It is obscene that staff have been robbed of hundreds of millions in stolen wages, yet VCs and executives walk away with hefty pay packets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe harsh reality is that staff and students have become expendable cogs in the machine of a corporate campus where staff and students are suffering, while the executive class is splurging on consultants and largesse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDecades of neoliberal policies by governments and universities have made a mockery of universities as democratic institutions of public good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe need an overhaul of university governance to shift the balance of power away from the managerial class and corporate executives back to staff and students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe need to reimagine better universities that are well-funded, accountable, democratic and transparent. Universities must be places of public good where staff have secure jobs and the best pay and working conditions, and students have fee-free access to quality education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is high time to fix these systemic problems, and the Greens support NTEUs calls for a parliamentary inquiry.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Spokesperson for Tertiary Education, has responded to NTEU\u2019s report \u201cEnding bad governance for good.\u201d Senator Mehreen Faruqi: \u201cThe shocking extent and impacts of the \u2018corporate university\u2019 are laid bare by this report. It is obscene that staff have been robbed of hundreds of millions in … Continue reading “NTEU report lays bare the \u2018corporate university\u2019”<\/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-30231","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\/30231","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=30231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30232,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231\/revisions\/30232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}