Casual and fixed-term academics: essential not expendable

A flexible future for university teaching will need new ways of working

Reducing casual numbers is an easy source of savings for universities. But it will create problems now and it ignores opportunities to transform the way teaching and learning is organised. Liz Baré, Janet Beard and Teresa Tjia make the case in CMM this morning.

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