The Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s expenditure grew twice as fast as income from 2010 to 2016. Management is looking for a solution

The University of Melbourne is circulating a change proposal for the MGSE, which involves more continuing academic and professional staff roles but at the cost of a net 29 positions.

The university’s plan cuts 58 academic jobs, while creating 29, with eight admin jobs going but the same number of new ones created.

“While MGSE’s academic outcomes have led the university, and in some cases the field of education nationally and internationally, its financial performance has been impacted by variations in revenue across all sources, and a high expenditure operating model,” management’s change proposal states.

There is also more than money involved in the plan. Changing academic requirements dictate a doctorate is “an essential selection criteria” for a teaching and research and teaching specialist roles.

The school proposes the redundancy/redeployment period begin on Monday, however the campus branch of the NTEU is asking staff to petition management for more consultation time “The people who made the MGSE the number one education school in Australia need your support,” the union says.