A new academic workload model is expected in May

Vice Chancellor Brigid Heywood had one ready to go but the chair of the Academic Workload Committee had another, which the campus branch of the National Tertiary Education Union considered superior. The union took the disagreement to the Fair Work Commission in March where Commissioner Johns suggested the parties keep talking (CMM March 8).

Which they will do through to May, when an agreed workload plan will be announced. Professor Heywood certainly appears keen to keep courteous the discussions still to come.

On Monday she acknowledged the work of the AWC and noted contributing staff members’, “generous and collegial sharing of adaptive good practice between staff in faculties and across schools.” She also recognised academic staff in general for “adjusting to the challenges” of working without a formal model.”